ovements in Combined Baths and Lavatories.
Year: 1896

page_text: ovements in Combined Baths and Lavatories.
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew,.
North Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention comprises improved modes of combining a lavatory basin and
parts connected therewith with a bath.
The lavatory basin is arranged at the foot end of the bath, and according to one
modification, is supported on or by journals at the back and front sides of the bath
rim, so that it can be turned or tipped up for emptying it and so as to occupy less
room, about an axis crossing the bath, being steadied in its position for use by a lug
placed on it so as to rest on the rim of the end of the bath. Hot and cold water
supply taps are fitted to the end of the bath, but communicate with a single over-
hanging, nozzle which is arranged to swivel so as to deliver either into the basin or
into the bath.
In other modifications the basin is hinged upon a bracket extending from the
further side of the bath at the foot end, and can be turned or tipped up against the .
wall, being supported in its position for use by a lug or projection with which it is.
provided to rest on the front side of the bath. The water-supply fittings may, be
like those of the first modification.
Dated this Seventeenth day of July 1806
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
I, JOHN SHANKS, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew,
North Britain, Sanitary Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention comprises improved modes of combining a lavatory basin and
parts connected there with with a bath.
In carrying out my invention a lavatory basin is supported on a bath either on
journals or on brackets (to which brackets it is hinged) and is steadied by having
one side resting on the bath rim the said basin being capable of being tipped for
emptying it or any other purpose and being supplied with water by a single
swivelling nozzle which also forms the bath water supply.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to, and showing two modifications of my improved combined
bath and lavatory.

page_text: Figure, 1, of the drawings is a plan, and Figure, 2, is a perspective view of one
modification, Figures, 3, and 4, being similar views of a second modification.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In the modification shown in Figures, 1, and 2, of the drawings, the lavatory
basin, A, is arranged at the foot end of the bath and is supported on or by
journals, B, at the back and front sides of the bath rim, C, so that it can be turned
or tipped up, for emptying it and so as to occupy less room, about an axis crossing
the bath, being steadied in its position for use by a lug, D, formed or fixed on it so
as to rest on the rim, C, of the end of the bath. Hot and cold water supply
taps, E, are fitted to the end of the bath, but communicate with a single over-
hanging nozzle, G, which is arranged to swivel so as to deliver either into the
basin, A, or into the bath.
In the modification shown in Figures, 3, and 4, the basin, A, is hinged upon a
pair of brackets, H, extending from the further side of the bath at the foot end,
and can be turned or tipped up against the wall, being supported in its position for
use by a lug or projection, D, with which it is provided to rest on the front side of
the bath rim, C. The water supply fittings, E, and, G, are like those of the first
modification.
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 :-
1. Combining with a bath, a lavatory basin supported on journals on the bath,
and steadied by having one side resting on the bath rim, the said basin being
capable of being tipped for emptying it or any other purpose and being supplied
with water by a single swivelling nozzle, which also forms the bath water supply
substantially as hereinbefore described and as shown in Figures, 1, and 2, of the
accompanying drawings.
2. Combining with a bath, a lavatory basin supported by being hinged to
brackets fixed to the bath, and steadied by having one side resting ou the bath rim,
the said basin being capable of being tipped for emptying it or any other purpose,
and being supplied with water by a single swivelling nozzle, which forms the bath
water supply also, substantially as herein before described and as shown in
Figures, 3, and 4, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of April 1897.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.