Improvements in or connected with Bed Pans, Commodes, Bidets, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bed Pans, Commodes, Bidets,
or the like.
Communicated by EDUARD ZILLI BILLER, of 6, Kaiser Ludwigplatz, Munich, in
the Empire of Germany, Doctor of Medicine.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, and 31, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an arrangement whereby bed pans, commodes,
bidets and the like utensils may be warmed or kept warm until required for use, in
order to render their use less unpleasant.
For this purpose the seat rims of the utensil are formed hollow or of a tube, and
provided with a nozzle having a closing plug or with like arrangement, through
which the hollow rim or tube is filled with steam, hot water, sand, hot air, or the
like. The handle of the paa may also be made hollow or with double walls and
warmed as well as the rim by means of water or the like. The emptying is
effected through the nozzle.
In addition to the rim and the handle, the walls of the pan also may be formed
hollow and similarly filled for the same purpose with warm or heated substances,
water or the like. The filling may equally well be effected by means of the nozzle
or by means of the hollow handle.
This latter form of construction has the advantage over the former that the part
of the bed lying underneath the pan is not liable to be chilled by the otherwise
cold metal, porcelain, or the like of the pan, and the bed utensil arranged in this
way may very advantageously be employed as a warming pan, whilst the bottom
may be preferably made with double walls. In this latter case the utensil will
contain a large quantity of warm water or other heating medium and the warmth
will be retained in the same for a long time.
י
L 1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.
Improvements in or connected with Bed Pans, Commodes, Bidets,
or the like.
A communication by EDUARD ZILLIBILLER, of 6 Kaiser Ludwigplatz, Munich,
in the Empire of Germany, Doctor of Medicine.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street,
Mauchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in

page_text: the County of Warwick and 322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention has for its object an arrangement whereby bed pans, commodes,
bidets and the like utensils may be warmed or kept warm until required for use, in
order to render their use less unpleasant.
The invention is shown in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings
in different forms of construction.
For the purpose of this invention, the seat rims of the utensil are formed hollow
or of a tube a (Figures 1, 3 and 4) and provided with a nozzle b having a closing
plug or with like arrangement, through which the hollow rim or tube is filled with
steam, hot water, sand, hot air, or the like. The handle c of the pan may also be
made hollow or with double walls and warmed as well as the rim by means of water
or the like. The emptying is effected through the nozzle.
In addition to the rim and the handle, the walls of the pan also may be formed
hollow, as shown in Figure 2 and similarly filled for the same purpose with warm
or heated substances, water or the like. The filling may equally well be effected
by means of the nozzle 6 or by means of the hollow handle c.
This latter form of construction has the advantage over the former that the part
of the bed lying underneath the pan is not liable to be chilled by the otherwise
cold metal, porcelain, or the like of the pan, and the bed utensil arranged in this
way may very advantageously be employed as a warming pan, whilst the bottom
may be preferably made with double walls. In this latter case the utensil will
contain a large quantity of warm water or other heating medium and the warmth
will be retained in the same for a long time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
The improvements in or connected with bed pans, commodes, bidets and the
like, which consists in forming the seat rims alone or as well as the walls of the
pan or the like and more particularly the handle (c) hollow, so that they may be
filled with a suitable warming substance, such as warm water, sand steam, hot air
or the like for the purpose of warming the utensils substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of December 1806
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.