IMPROVEMENTS UPON OR ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTION OF PORTABLE BATHS, WITH THE OBJECT OF RENDERING THEM AVAILABLE FOR UBE AS TRUNKS OR BOXES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Prince Vallas, of No. 2, Kentish Town
Road, Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Zinc Worker, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS UPON OR ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTION
OF PORTABLE BATHS, WITH THE OBJECT OF RENDERING THEM AVAILABLE FOR
UBE AS TRUNKS OR BOXES."
Sealed the 13th June 1862, and dated the 16th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Prince Vallas
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1861.
I, GEORGE PRINCE VALLAS, of No. 2, Kentish Town Road, Camden Town,
in the County of Middlesex, Zinc Worker, do hereby declare the nature of
the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS UPON OR ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTION
OP PORTABLE BATHS, WITH THE OBJECT OF RENDERING THEM AVAILABLE FOR USE
AS TRUNKS OR BOXES," to be as follows:-
My Invention comprises the following two features or improvements :---The
first has reference to the utilization as a trunk or box of the class or
description of baths commonly known as "hip" baths and "sitz" baths, and
the like, in which the top edges do not lie in one and the same plane, but in
which at one end a back or rest is carried up higher than the remaining
portions of the bath, and consists in adapting them to receive and in con-
structing them with a removeable top, lid, or cover, for confining or securing the
contents when employed as a trunk or box. It is proposed to effect this

page_text: improvement by a hinged or folding lid, one part or parts of which and the
corresponding part of the body of the bath shall have their edges formed to
clip each other, in such manner as to allow the lid to be slided longitudinally
against or upon the body, or otherwise, the hinged or folding remainder of the
lid covering that part of the body which is not covered by the sliding part of
the lid.
The second improvement has reference to the utilization as a trunk or box
of the above description, and also of other descriptions of baths in which a rim
or foot is continued below the actual bottom of the bath, and consists in
adapting them to receive and in constructing them with a fixed or removeable
bottom, or inverted lid or cover for confining or securing the contents when
employed as a trunk or box. It is proposed to effect this improvement by a
simple inverted lid sliding vertically or otherwise, the rim of the body and of
the lid fitting properly against each other. Fastenings are to be employed
with either improvement, and the two improvements are to be employed in
combination, or separately.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Prince Vallas in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PRINCE VALLAS, of No. 2, Kentish Town Road, Camden Town, in the County
of Middlesex, Zinc Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Prince Vallas, Her special licence that I, the said George
Prince Vallas, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Prince Vallas, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS UPON OR, ADDITIONS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTION OF PORTABLE
BATHS, WITH THE OBJECT OF RENDERING THEM AVAILABLE FOR USE AS TRUNKS OR
Boxes," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Prince

page_text: Vallas, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 George Prince Vallas, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention comprises the following two features or improvements:-The
first has reference to the utilization as a trunk or box of the class or description
of baths commonly known as "hip" baths and "sitz" baths, and the like, in
which the top edges do not lie in one and the same plane, but in which at
one end a back or rest is carried up higher than the remaining portions of the
bath, and consists in adapting them to receive and in construeting them with
a particular description of removeable top, lid, or cover, for confining or
securing the contents when employed as a trunk or box. And the said
particular description of lid or cover consists in its being constructed with a
hinge or joint, so as to fold back upon itself, and so that one part or parts and
the corresponding part of the body of the bath shall have their edges formed
to clip each other, and to allow the lid to be slided longitudinally against or
upon the body, and further so that the hinged or folding remainder of the lid
may cover that part of the body which is not covered by the sliding part of
the lid.
The second improvement has reference to the utilization as a trunk or box
of the above description, and also of other descriptions of baths in which a rim
or foot is continued below the actual bottom of the bath, and consists in
adapting them to receive and in constructing them with a fixed or removeable
bottom, or inverted lid or cover, for confining or securing the contents when
employed as a trunk or box. Fastenings are to be employed with either
improvement, and the two improvements are to be employed in combination,
or separately.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates my Invention by a representation of
a portable sitz bath constructed in accordance with both the features or
improvements above set forth.
Figure 1 is a plan view, and Figure 2 is a side elevation of the bath
complete, shewing the upper lid and the foot lid, each in a closed position,
the latter Figure representing the sliding and folding movements of the upper

page_text: lid by dotted lines and arrows; Figure 3 is a vertical section taken through
the length of the bath, so as to correspond with Figure 2, but shewing the
upper lid unlocked, partly folded back, and partly slided back from the closed
position, and also shewing by dotted lines and arrows the manner of opening
the lid or cover at the foot from the closed position represented by the full
lines; Figure 4 is an inverted plan view of the upper lid, shewing particularly
the hinge or joint across it, and the fastenings for connecting to the bath;
Figure 5 is an inverted plan view of the bath complete, excepting only the
strap u, hereafter mentioned; this Figure shews particularly the foot lid, and
also the fastenings generally.
a and b denote the body of the bath, a being the part on or against which the
sliding part of the upper lid slides or moves, and 6 the part against which the
folding remainder of the said lid fits or lies; c and d are the corresponding
portions of the lid; e is the hinge or joint across it; f,f,f, clips or fastenings,
these and the edges of the body being made to correspond; 9 is a hasp at top
extremity of d, folding over and taking into a lock h, fitted at top of b, to
correspond; m is the ordinary bottom of the bath; n is the ordinary rim or
foot; o, p, is the bottom, added in accordance with my second improven int,
the part o being fixed, and the part p being made to fold back or open upon a
hinge or joint q; s is a lock for securing the opening or folding part of the
lid; t, t, are rings fastened to the bath, through which a leather strap u may
be passed for carrying it. I would remark that instead of the hasp 9 and
lock h, a lock may be placed on the inner or under side of the lid c, d, and
its bolt may be made to shoot or take into the beading round the edge; and
further I would remark that any other convenient clips and fastenings may be
used instead of those represented, and also that instead of the bottom o, p,
being a fixture to the bath, as represented, it, as well as the upper lid c, d,
may be removeable therefrom, and if so, may be constructed as a simple
inverted lid, like a box lid (inverted), fitting upon the rim or foot n, which is
to be properly shaped to receive it.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Prince Vallas, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GEORGE PRINCE VALLAS. (L.S.)