AN IMPROVED BATH
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Scarlett Wright, of Pont Street,
Belgrave Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED BATH."
Sealed the 3rd August 1853, and dated the 3rd February 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Scarlett
Wright at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 3rd of February 1853.
I, WILLIAM SCARLETT WRIGHT, of Pont Street, Belgrave Square,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BATH" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing baths, with a seat, and
has for its object greater comfort than baths as hitherto constructed
nore particularly when used by invalids or infirm persons, and
I denominate baths thus constructed, "Chair-Baths," the arrange-
ment and construction of which is exhibited by the accompanying
Drawing, where Fig. 1. shews a section of a bath constructed
according to this Invention; Fig. 2, an outside view thereof;
Fig. 3, a top plan view. Fig. 4, shews a modified form of construction;
A, A, marks the sides of the bath; B, the front; C, the back; D, the
bottom; E, a seat fixed to the bottom, back, and sides of the bath.
Or it may be formed out of the same piece of metal or other
material as the bottom and back of the bath, as shewn at Fig. 4.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said William Scarlett Wright in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 3rd August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM SCARLETT WRIGHT, of Pont Street, Belgrave Square, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Scarlett Wright,
Her special license that I, the said William Scarlett Wright, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Scarlett Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED BATH," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Scarlett Wright,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Scarlett. Wright, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing baths with a seat, and

page_text: has for its object greater confort than the baths as hitherto
constructed, and baths constructed according to my said Invention
are more particularly intended for the use of invalids and infirin
persons. And I denominate baths thus constructed." Chair Baths.".
The arrangement and construction of one of such baths is exhibited
by the accompanying Drawing hereunto annexed, and forming part-
of this my Specification. And in order to explain my said Inven-
tion as completely as possible, I now proceed to describe the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Drawing
above mentioned, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively as follows.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, exhibits a longitudinal and vertical section of a bath
constructed according to my said Invention; Figure 2, is an
elevation of the exterior thereof; Figure 3, a top plan view;
and Figure 4, is a modified form of construction of such said:
bath. At each of these figures I employ similar letters of:
.reference to denote corresponding parts, in so far as such parts.
appear or can be seen at each of the figures respectively. A, A,
marks the sides of the bath, which may be of zinc or other
metal, as also the other parts of the bath, which are soldered
together, and afterwards japanned or ornamented on the more
exposed and outer surface thereof; and the inner surface thereof
may be painted in the manner usually practised in the construction
of baths; B, marks the front of the bath; C, the back; D, the
bottom; E, a scat fixed to the bottom, back, and sides of the bath.
Or it may be formed of the same piece of metal as the bottom and
back of the bath, as exhibited at Figure 4. And I purpose in
combination with said scat, to employ a mackintosh or other water
tight cushion, which when inflated presents a soft seat to sit upon,
such said cushion being removeable at will.
I would remark that whereas in some instances the infirmity
or weakness of the person requiring to use the above mentioned

page_text: bath would be such as would not admit of their entering the bath
at the top as ordinarily practised, I propose, in order to meet such
cases, to construct the bath with a sliding or hinged door and
aperture at one part thereof, as exhibited by red lines at Figures 2,
and 3, and I render such door water tight when closed by the
interposition of strips of vulcanized india rubber or caoutchouc
between the parts ȧ, and b, as shewn. Thus it will be seen that by
thus constructing the bath, the person using it has simply to enter
the bath by the door and aperture when the bath is empty. The bath
is then filled or charged with water after the door is closed and
secured by the handles e, e; and such filling may either be
effected through a pipe at c, leading from the bath to the outside
of the bath room, or it may be filled from the top by hand; in either
-case the water is discharged from the bath by a pipe at d.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be and may be performed, I claim as
of my Invention the constructing of baths in the manner and
for the purposes hereinbefore particularly described, set forth, and
represented by the illustrated Drawing hereunto annexed as consti-
tuting "Improvements in Baths."
In witness whereof, I, the, said William Scarlett Wright, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of August
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
Witness,
ALEX PRINCE,
WILLIAM SCARLETT WRIGHT. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square.