IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND AERATING. SALINE OR OTHER LIQUIDS FOR BATHS, AND IN THE SALINOMETERS EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Tylor, of the Firm of Tylor and Sons,
of Warwick Lane, Newgate Street, in the City of London, Brass Founders,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND
AERATING. SALINE OR OTHER LIQUIDS FOR BATHS, AND IN THE SALINOMETERS
EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE
APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th April 1861, and dated the 23rd October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Tylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd October 1860.
I, WILLIAM HENRY TYLOR, of the Firm of Tylor and Sons, of Warwick
Lane, Newgate Street, in the City of London, Brass Founders, do hereby
déclare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
HEATING AND AERATING SALINE OR OTHER LIQUIDS FOR BATHS, AND IN THE SALINO-
METERS EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE
APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the arrangement and combination of apparatus for
heating and aerating saline or other water or liquid, and also for indicating
the particular strength of the saline solution required to be used for an aerated
saline water bath, the heating and aerating apparatus, and also the salinometer,
being applicable to other purposes.
The arrangement of heating and aerating apparatus in combination with a
bath, consists, first, of a boiler of a capacity to contain a quantity of water,

page_text: which, when heated, shall be sufficient for a hot bath at one discharge, and in
order to avoid the expence of bricklayers' work, it is constructed in such a
manner that it can be readily placed in an ordinary fire-place without removing,
cutting away, or disfiguring the chamber or mantlepiece. The flues of the
boiler may be arranged in any convenient manner, so that the boiler will hold
sufficient water for a warm bath at one charge, and, if required, a cistern of
water may be connected with the boiler to be heated by circulation. To the
front of the boiler an iron stove front may be affixed, with doors and blower,
if required.
When using a solution of salt in the boiler I affix to it a mercurial indicator
or salinometer, which has a sliding scale which can be adjusted to the reading
of the barometer. Having previously determined on the thermometer of this
instrument, the boiling point of fresh water at a certain barometric reading,
and knowing the different temperatures at which water with certain impreg-
nations of salt will boil, I am enabled to ascertain when I have too much salt
in the solution.
I aerate the water, previously heated in its passage to the bath, by means of
an aerating apparatus of greatly improved construction, consisting of a con-
denser, air pump, and working gear, all arranged in connection with an iron
pillar, by which I economize space and dispense altogether with the two side
frames usually employed in the construction of aerating apparatus, thus
rendering them less costly and affording greater facility for getting at the
working parts.
When the water is aerated it is discharged into a bath, the connections and
taps of which are concealed from view by a metal casing forming part of the
bath, in place of enclosing them with wood as heretofore, by which the expense
of carpenters' work and fitting is avoided.
In some cases fresh water may be employed, or water containing medicinal
properties, which may be charged with gases of different kinds by means of the
aerating apparatus before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Henry Tylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY TYLOR, of the Firm of Tylor & Sons, of Warwick Lane, Newgate
Street, in the City of London, Brass Founders, send greeting..

page_text: "
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her, reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Henry Tylor, Her special licence that I, the said
William Henry. Tylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others. as I, the said William Henry Tylor, 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." IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND AERATING SALINE
OR OTHER LIQUIDS FOR BATHS, AND IN THE SALINOMETERS EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Henry Tylor,
my: executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 Henry Tylor, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement. in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and. the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say: -
::
My said Invention consists in the arrangement and combination of apparatus
for, heating and aerating saline or other water or liquid, and also for indicating
the particular strength of the saline solution required to be used for an aerated
saline. water bath, the heating and aerating apparatus, and also the salinometer,
being applicable to other. uses.
The arrangement of heating and aerating apparatus in combination with a
bath, of which Fig. 1. is a plan, and Fig. 2 an elevation, (the same letters
referring to the same parts in each) consists, firstly, of a boiler, which may bé
of cast or wrought iron, or copper, or other material, of a capacity to contain
a quantity of water, which, when heated; shall be sufficient for a hot bath at
one.discharge, and. in, order to avoid the expense of bricklayers' work it is
constructed in such.a manner that it can be readily placed in an ordinary fire
place without removing, cutting away, or disfiguring the chamber. or chimney

page_text: piece; the flues of the boiler may be arranged in any convenient manner, so
that the boiler will hold sufficient water for a warm bath at one charge; or a
cistern may be connected with the boiler and its contents heated by, circulation
in the ordinary manner. In the front of the boiler an iron stove front may be
affixed, with doors and blower if-required.
Secondly, of an improved instrument for indicating the strength or density
of any saline solution. When using a solution of any salt in the boiler, I affix
to it a mercurial indicator or salinometer with a sliding scale, which can be
adjusted to the reading of the barometer; having previously determined on
the thermometer of this instrument, the boiling point of fresh water at a
certain barometric reading, and knowing the different temperatures at which
water with certain impregnations of salt will boil, I am enabled to ascertain
when I have too much salt in the solution.
Thirdly, of an improved aerating machine consisting of a condenser, air
pump, and working gear, all arranged in connection with an iron pillar, by
which I economize space and dispense altogether with the two side frames
usually employed in the construction of aerating apparatus, thus rendering it
less costly, and affording greater facility for getting at the working parts..
And, fourthly, of an improved bath which may be of copper, iron, or other
metal, the connections and cocks of which are concealed from view by a metal
casing forming part of the bath in place of enclosing them with wood as here-
tofore, by which the expense of carpenters' work and fitting is avoided.
.
In preparing a saline aerated bath with my improved apparatus, various
modes may be adopted, but, by preference, I proceed as follows, namely:-
In a cistern or other vessel fixed at a level above the apparatus, to which a
supply of cold water is laid, I dissolve the salt or salts to be used in the bath;
this solution is allowed to pass into the boiler A by the pipe B, which has a
stop-cock at some convenient point, where it is heated to the required tempe-
rature, and its proper strength or density ascertained by the salinometer E,
(shewn more at large by Fig. 5, where F is the adjustable scale actuated by
the screw G,) it is drawn through the pipe C to the pump barrel of the aerating
machine D, to which also a pipe H, in communication with a gas holder or
other vessel for retaining or generating the gas or gases with which the solution
is to be charged, is connected; the quantities of the solution, and the gas or
gases, being regulated by the stop-cocks a, a', from whence it is forced in con-
nection with the gas or gases into the condenser 6, under pressure, where they
are thoroughly mixed, and thence discharged through the pipe I into the bath K;
L is a pipe for supplying cold water direct to the bath, and M is the waste or
emptying pipe, fixed in the usual manner.

page_text: In some cases fresh water may be employed, or water containing medicinal
properties, which may be charged with gases of different kinds by means of
the aerating apparatus above described.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the aerating machine shewn in Figs. 1 and 2;
Fig. 4 is a section of a similar machine, but with the condenser placed within
the iron column; Fig. 6 is a section and elevation; Fig. 7 is a section; Fig. 8
is a section and elevation, and Fig. 9 also a section and elevation of several
forms of boilers which may be adopted for this apparatus.
Having now fully described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying it into practice, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of the Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the general arrangement
and construction of apparatus for baths, as herein described, for heating and
aerating saline or other solutions, and for ascertaining the strength or density
of saline solutions for baths, the aerating apparatus and the salinometer being
applicable for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Tylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one.
WILLIAM HENRY TYLOR. (L.S.)