Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Dec., 1888
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I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Fel. Inst. P.A., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., practising as
Phillips & Leigh, of 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of.
Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows :-
My invention relates to improvements in douche bath apparatus, according to which
a much simpler and less costly plant than those hitherto known is produced.
In carrying it into effect, I provide a collapsible bag of suitable material, adapted
to hold the bath-water. This is fitted with convenient feeding and discharge orifices,
the former being provided with a suitable plug, and the latter with a flexible delivery
tube and rose. This bag is laid upon a movable base having vertical guides projecting
therefrom, and a platform dropped upon the bag over the guides. The intending
bather stands or sits upon the platform, when his weight ejects the water through the
rose. Grips are fixed to the base by pulling at which, the rate at which the water is
discharged may be increased.

page_text: Improved Douche Bath.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Fel. Inst. P.A., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., practising as
Phillips & Leigh, of No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in douche bath, apparatus, according to which
a much simpler and less costly plant than those hitherto known is produced.
It has hitherto been proposed to combine with a douche or shower bath, a pump
adapted to raise the water to the top of the bath by being operated either by the hands
or feet of the bather standing for that purpose outside the bath. This combination
has however always necessitated the use of a piston or pistons and valves, while the
absence of all secondary mechanical devices is the distinguishing feature of the
present invention.
According to the said invention, the weight of the bather is the only agency relied
upon. It is used either to compress a bag of flexible material, or to force a piston
down a cylinder, either of which is fillod with water; and to thereby force the latter
through a suitable pipe fitted with a rose or other convenient terminal from which it
can spurt out upon the person of the bather.
This invention may be realised in various ways, and in order that its scope and how
it is to be carried into practical effect may be clearly understood, I will now describe
it in connection with the accompanying drawings, premising that the invention is not
confined to the precise structural features illustrated, inasmuch as these may be
modified as circumstances may from time to time suggest or require, provided that any
such modification embraces the essence of the invention, viz., the utilisation of the
directly exerted weight of the bather to effect the elevation of the water.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of one form of the invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the lower, part the handles being drawn as lying idly upon the
platform.
A is a watertight bag or reservoir made of flexible material, and is fixed between a
platform B and a movable base B¹. A pipe C, preferably of metal, is connected to
the bottom of the bag. D, D are vertical guides fixed to the base. The pipe.( may be
adapted to serve. also as a guide, if it be sufficiently rigid and fixed in the position
illustrated. Sockets E E are provided upon the platform B to receive the guides D,
and to preserve its equilibrum during its descent. F F are screw unions provided for
the purpose of allowing the pipe C-represented as of metal-being taken down.
G is the rose through which the water escapes in a shower. M M are handles fixed to
opposite sides of the base. They are provided for the purpose of enabling the bather,
by pulling at them, to increase the pressure upon the-water in the reservoir A.
O is a suitable screw or other device, through which the bag A may be filled with
water, and is adapted to be closed water-tight after the filling has been effected.

page_text: The flexible reservoir A may be replaced by a metal reservoir in which works a
piston connected to the platform B.
The apparatus illustrated is used as follows:-
When the reservoir A has been filled through the opening in the filling device O,
and the latter closed watertight, the bather steps onto the platform B. The water
under the influence of his weight rises up the pipe C and is forced out through
the rose in a shower.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A shower bath in which the weight of the bather is utilized to force the water
up a pipe from which it is delivered, as set forth.
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