improved Sitz-Baths or combined bidets and foot- baths
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Loft 12th Cont
4007
Batns.
I, PATRICK HENRY PENDERGAST, of 717 James Street, City of Syracuse, County,
of Onondaga, State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved Sitz-Baths or combined bidets and foot-
baths. My object is to improve the construction, general utility and great
personal convenience of sitz-baths and to provide means whereby the feet may be
washed whilst the sitz-bath bowl is being used.
I make the set bowl for the sitz-bath removable and with a rounded rim, the
top of the sitz-bath being of oval or other suitable shape. And I provide a vertical
pipe, or inlet and outlet pipes extending into and from the said bowl.
I. combine the bidet and foot-bath in such a manner that the front wall of the
former constitutes the rear wall of the latter, and the foot-bath extends in front of
and may be partly under the front of the rim of the bowl and projects laterally
upon each side thereof. I also provide means for filling it with water and drawing
the same off, so that the feet may be washed at the same time while sitting upon
the sitz-bath tub.
It will be observed that the sitz-bath has for its object a special purpose, not the
immersion of the parts, but allowing the water to be forced to them by means of
a pipe, it being so adapted and arranged that the water will be immediately
carried away, afterwards the bowl may be filled and all the parts bathed, but in
no instance is this sitz-bath tub adapted for sitting in, but at all times to sit upon
the rim.
Dated this 5th day of December 1908
I, PATRICK HENRY PENDERGAST, of 717 James Street, City of Syracuse, County,
of Onondaga, State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman, 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:-
This invention relates to new and useful improvements in bidet and foot baths.
My object is to produce a combined sitz-bath or bidet and foot-bath, cheap and

page_text: durable in its construction, and of great utility, and to that end my invention
consists in the novel features of construction, which are hereinafter described
and which are specifically set forth in the claim hereunto annexed."
It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings in which-
Fig. 1, is a plan perspective of the device complete.
Fig. 2, is a top plan view thereof.
Fig. 3, is a cross section.
Fig. 4, is a longitudinal vertical section.
A is a bidet, comprising vertical side walls 2, front wall 3, and rear wall 4.
5 is a bowl supported upon flanges 6 projecting inwardly from the side and rear
walls, and being of substantially the form shown and having a rounded rim 7.
B is a foot bath, having vertical side walls in extension of the side walls of the
bidet, the front wall of said bidet constituting the rear walls of the foot bath,
and having a front wall 8.
The side and front walls of the foot bath are surmounted by the rounded rim 9
sloping substantially as shown in continuation of the slope of the upper side walls
of the bidet.
The corners of the bidet and foot bath and their rims, are rounded substantially
as shown, both interiorly and exteriorly."
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 :-
The herein described combined sitz and foot bath, comprising a base, having a
foot bath located in the forward end, and a bowl in the top extending forwardly
over said foot bath, as set forth.
ay of Septem
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 and 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.