Improvements in and relating to Swimming Baths, applicable also to other purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Swimming Baths, applicable also to
other purposes.
I, WILLIAM CRUTCHLEY GARDNER, of 55, Mallinson Road, London, S.W., Clerk
of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements according to my invention are devised primarily for use in
connection with swimming baths; but are applicable also to water tanks and the
like where provision has to be made for "overflow" of the within-contained water.
In carrying out my invention, and taking by way of illustration the case of
a swimming bath; I adapt to the walls of the bath in the same plane as the
water level, a trough or channel with a marginal bead or lip of rounded formation
leading down to the dished channel-way of the trough, which may be made of
any suitable material and may be moulded or otherwise formed, in lengths to
allow of the trough extending to any desired length of the walls of the bath.
The recessed channel-way of the trough aforesaid would be pierced at intervals
of every few feet with discharge apertures connected to the main outlet drain
from the floor of the bath.
Any extraneous matters which may be floating on the top of the water, will,
on being washed on to the rounded bead aforesaid, pass over at once downwards
to the recessed channel way; and, so also, the latter may be used for the reception
of expectorations by the bathers.
Also, the rounded marginal beading aforesaid, of the trough, could be
advantageously availed of in the case of a bath, to serve as a gripping rail for
the bathers, and so dispense with the necessity for employing the usual rail
adopted for baths.
Improvements in and relating to Swimming Baths, applicable also to
other purposes.
I, WILLIAM CRUTCHLEY GARDNER, of 55, Mallinson Road, London, S.W., Clerk
of Works, 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:-
The improvements according to my invention are devised primarily for use
in connection with swimming baths, but are applicable also to water tanks and

page_text: the like where provision has to be made for overflow of the within contained
liquid.
In carrying out my invention, and taking by way of illustration, the case of
a swimming bath; I adapt to the walls of the bath and disposed in the same
plane as the water level thereof, a trough or channel with a marginal beading
or lip, of rounded formation, leading downwards to the dished channelway of
the trough.
The device according to my invention may be made of any suitable materials
such, for instance, as what is known as majolica. It may be moulded or other-
wise formed, in lengths, to allow of the trough extending to any desired portion
of the walls of the bath or other receptacle to which my device is adapted.
The recessed channelway of the trough aforesaid, would be pierced at intervals
of every few feet, with discharge apertures or conduits connected to the main
outlet drains from the bath; any extraneous matter which may be floating on
top of the water, will, on being washed on to or on being brought in contact
with, the marginal beading aforesaid, pass over at once, downward, to the recessed
channelway of the trough; so also, the latter may be utilised for the reception
of expectorations, by the bathers, and to serve generally, as a scum trough."
The rounded beading aforesaid of the "
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scum trough may likewise be advan-
tageously availed of in the case of a swimming bath, to serve as the gripping
rail for the bathers; and so, to dispense with the necessity for the employment
of a special separate hand gripping rail as at present adopted for swimming
baths.
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In order that my invention may the better be understood, I have appended
the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrative thereof; Figure 1 being a trans-
verse sectional view of my improved device, and Figure 2, a longitudinal
elevational view thereof.
In the latter view, I have assumed the bath to be empty, the better to allow
of the configuration being seen of the marginal beading aforesaid.
In the drawings, the scum trough is represented at A, A1, A2, the hereinbefore
referred to beading serving also as a gripping rail; B discharge outlet; and C
the floor of bath.
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:
In swimming baths and other receptacles for liquids in which it is required
to provide for an overflow, the scum trough A with beading A1, A2, substantially
as, and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated thie 90th day of V. 1900
WILLIAM CRUTCHLEY GARDNER.