AN IMPROVEMENT IN FEET, HIP, AND SLIPPER BATHS, ALSO IN BASES FOR SHOWER BATHS, AND BASINS FOR WASHING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Loveridge, of Wolverhampton, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FEET, HIP, AND SLIPPER BATHS, ALSO IN
BASES FOR SHOWER BATHS, AND BASINS FOR WASHING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th April 1856, and dated the 23rd February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Loveridge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
February 1856.
I, HENRY LOVERIDGE, of Wolverhampton, do hereby declare the nature of
the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FEET, HIP, AND SLIPPER BATHS, ALSO IN:
BASES FOR SHOWER BATHS, AND BASINS FOR WASHING AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows. :-
This Invention consists in making feet, hip, and slipper baths, bases for
shower baths, and basins for washing and other purposes, with the edges or
rims or parts thereof turned or curved over interiorly, to hinder the water
or liquid contained in the vessel from slopping over. When the liquid runs
up the side it is turned over by the rim, and falls back into the vessels.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Loveridge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LOVERIDGE, of Wolverhampton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing,date the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One, thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Loveridge, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Loveridge,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Loveridge, 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 AN IMPROVEMENT IN FÉÉT,
HIP, AND SLIPPER BATHS, ALSO IN BASES FOR SHOWER BATHS, AND BASINS FOR
WASHING AND OTHER-PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others). that
I, the said Henry Loveridge, my executors or administrators, by, an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I,'the said Henry Loveridge, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say.
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This Invention consists in making feet, hip, and slipper baths,, bases, for
shower baths, and basins for washing and other purposes, with the edges
or rims, or parts thereof turned or curved, over interiorly, to, hinder the water
or liquid contained in the vesself from slopping over: When, the liquid runs.
up, the side it is turned over by the rim, and falls, back into the vessels,
Having, thus stated the nature, of my said, Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
Figure 1 shows a foot bath made according to my Invention, the upper rim
or edge a, a, of which is turned inwards, as shown in section at Figure 2;
b is a lip, by which the bath is emptied of the water; Figures 1 and 2* show

page_text: another form of foot bath; and I would state that the forms of the several
descriptions of baths and basins herein mentioned may be varied so long as
the upper edges or rims thereof are turned inwards, as herein shewn and
described. Figures 3 and 4 show a hip bath, the upper edge or rim a, a, being
turned inwards; 6 is a spout to pour out the water at. Figures 5 and 6
show a slipper bath, the upper edge or rim a, a, of which is turned inwards;
6 is a spout to pour out the water at. Figures 7 and 8 show the base or lower
part of a shower bath, the rim or edge a of which is turned inwards. Figures
9 and 10 show a basin for washing and other purposes, the upper edge or
rim a, a, of which is turned inward; b is the pouring spout to discharge
the water therefrom. Figures 11 and 12 show a nursery basin and stand, the
upper edge or rim a, a, of this basin is turned inward, and there is a lip or
spout at 6 to pour out the water therefrom.
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Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
manufacture of feet baths, hip baths, slipper baths, also the lower or base parts
of shower baths, and also basins for washing and other purposes, with the edges
and rims thereof turned inwards, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Loveridge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM PARKES.
HENRY LOVERIDGE. (L.S.)