Improvements in Swimming and other Baths.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Swimming and other Baths.
JAMES LINKLETER 3 Percy Street Tynemouth, Northumberland, Patentee and
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in swimming and other baths, whereby
a long swimming bath may be made suitable for holding swimming contests and
galas, with the following advantages:
That it can be easily and expeditiously converted into a number of smaller baths,
for use at different temperatures, for different sexes, or different ages, (also suitable
for Turkish baths) and to economize both water and space, and so made suitable
to the different seasons of our changeable climate.
To this end, my invention consists of a bath much longer and narrower than the
swimming baths of the ordinary make, (broad enough for 2 or 3 to swim abreast).
These narrow baths, can be made to form into an oval, round, or square
surrounding a space, such space could be utilized for dressing rooms, or other
purposes.
At suitable distances in the long narrow bath, there are grooves down the sides
and across the bottom, into which I place gates or partitions in a similar way to
the gates of a dry dock.
Bordering the gates near the edge which is inserted into the grooves, I fix a
flexible edgeing, which, when the water at one side of the gate only is wanted,
this edgeing is pressed by the water against the joint, and so prevents any leakage
of water from one bath to another.
With the said gates, pipes can be arranged to increase or decrease the tem-
perature of any particular part of the bath, or pumping out any portion of the
long narrow bath for cleaning, repairs, or economy in working, the whole of the
gates can be cleared away, to allow the swimmers to have a long and continuous
swim in evenings or times for swimming contests.
Dated this 28th day of New 1801
JAS. LINKLETER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Swimming and other Baths.
JAMES LINKLETER 3 Percy Street Tynemouth Patentee and Manufacturer 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in swimming and other baths, whereby a
long swimming bath may be made suitable for holding swimming contests and
galas in, with the following advantages that it can be easily and expeditiously con-
verted into a number of small baths, for use at different temperatures, by different
sexes, or different ages, and to economise both water and space and so made
suitable to the different seasons of our changeable climate.
To this end my invention consists of a bath much longer and narrower than the
swimming baths of the ordinary make (broad enough for 2 or 3 to swim abreast).
These narrow baths can be made to form into an oval, round or square, surrounding
a space, such space could be utilized for dressing rooms, or other purposes.
suitable distances in the long narrow bath, there are grooves down the sides, and
across the bottom, into which I place gates, or partitions in a similar way to the
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page_text: gates of a dry dock. Bordering the gates near the edge which is inserted in the
grooves I fix a flexible edging, which when the water at one side of the gate only
is wanted, this edging is pressed by the water against the joint, and so prevents any
leakage of water, from the one bath to the other. With the said gates, pipes can
be arranged to increase or decrease the temperatures of any particular part of the
bath, or for pumping out any portion of the long narrow bath for cleaning or to
economise working, or for repairs, the whole of the gates can be cleared away, to
allow the swimmers to have a long and continuous swim in evenings or times for
swimming contests.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shows how a long narrow bath B, can be divided by any number of
partitions P, also how a long bath B, can be made to surround a space D D, which
can be utilized for dressing rooms.
Fig. 2. shows ends of watertight partitions P', with iron binding I, down the ends
and across the bottom, G, shows side of bath with grooves G, down the side and
across the bottom to receive partition binding 1, and hold it firm F is flexible
edging round partition, which is held by water pressure against the joint to stop
leakage from one bath to the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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Fitting swimming baths with one or more moveable watertight partitions to
obtain the above named advantages.
Dated this 27th day of February 1892.
JAS. LINKLETER.