Improvements in Portable Cabinets for Hot Air or Vapour Baths.
Year: 1898

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Cabinets for Hot Air or Vapour Baths.
I, ALEXANDER DEANE, of 57, West Nile Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, Publisher, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:
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This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in portable
cabinets for hot air or vapour baths which will be easily arranged for use and
when not required for bath purposes may be utilized as fire or draught screens.
The improvements consist. in forming the portable cabinet which may be of
square, polygonal, round, oval or other shape, in sections hinged together, the
two outer sections being provided with any ordinary fastening device to secure
them together by their outer edges when to be used as a bath cabinet. These
sections may be of wood, metal, or other suitable material or be light frames
covered with waterproofed cloth, sheet indiarubber, or like material waterproof
and impervious to vapour. A section of any suitable impervious flexible cover-
ing which may be sheet indiarubber or waterproof cloth is secured to the upper
edge of each section so that when the user of the bath is seated within the cabinet
these covering sections may be folded over on one another so as to completely
cover in the open top of the cabinet just leaving a sufficient opening to accomo-
date the user's neck.
A head covering such as a hood of impervious and waterproof material is also
provided for the purpose of covering in the head when this is desired, and this
head covering is provided with a breathing tube by which the user can breathe
the outer air, and it may also be fitted with glazed eyeholes. This head covering
would be made wide at its lower part so as to cover the joining of the sections
around the neck and keep all tight.
In operation the user after fixing the chair and heating or vaporizing
apparatus, which may be heated either by gas, oil, or alcohol, pulls or has placed
the cabinet around or over him, the head protruding through the opening
whereby the body is subjected to the hot air or vapour bath, the head attachment
with breathing tube being added or not at will of operator. As a fire screen the
cabinet is opened up and set in any desired position thus providing a combined
portable thermal hot air and vapour bath cabinet with head attachment and air
tube, and a fire or draught screen which is handsome in appearance, easy to
manipulate and efficient in use.
Dated the 29th September 1898.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents..

page_text: Improvements in Portable Cabinets for Hot Air or Vapour Baths.
I, ALEXANDER DEANE, of 57, West Nile Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, Publisher, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing reference being made to the
accompanying sheet of drawings:-
This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in portable
cabinets for hot air or vapour baths which will be easily arranged for use and
when not required for bath purposes may be utilized as fire or draught screens.
And in order that my invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended a sheet of explanatory drawings in which Figure 1 shows the bath
cabinet open, in which form it may be used as a draught screen, and Figure 2
shows it closed for use as a hot air bath.
The improvements consist in forming the portable cabinet which may be of
square, polygonal, round, oval or other shape, in sections hinged together, the
two outer sections being provided with any ordinary fastening device to secure
them together by their outer edges when to be used as a bath cabinet. These
sections A, B, C, D, which are shown in the drawing as rectangular in form
may be of wood, metal, or other suitable material, but are preferably of light
framework covered with waterproofed cloth, sheet indiarubber, or like material
waterproof and. impervious to vapour. Sections A, B, C, D¹, of any suitable
impervious flexible covering which may be sheet indiarubber or waterproof cloth
are secured to the upper edges of the sections A, B, C D, so that when the user
of the bath is seated within the cabinet these covering sections may be folded
over on one another so as to completely cover in the open top of the cabinet just
A small door, such
leaving a sufficient opening to accomodate the user's neck.
as is shown at c Figure 1 is fitted for the purpose of introducing the heating
lamp.
For the purpose of supporting the sections in the closed position section D' is
provided with hooks D2 and section B with rings 132 secured to elastic or other
flexible bands B. The cabinet being closed to the square form shown in
Figure 2 and secured in that position by the hooks E being hooked into the
eyes the sections B₁ D' are secured together by the hooks D2 and rings B².
The sections A and C are then folded over onto the top of the sections B¹ D'.
One of the sections as C₁ is formed with an opening to allow the head of the
user to protrude above the cabinet. An extra section or flap G with head opening
is preferably secured to the section B. which is turned over on top of all to more
closely cover in the top.
A head covering F such as is indicated in Figure 2 in dotted lines and formed
as a hood of impervious and waterproof material is also provided for the purpose
of covering in the head when this is desired, and this head covering is provided
with a breathing tube F by which the user can breathe the outer air, and it may
also be fitted with glazed eyeholes F. This head covering F would be made wide
at its lower part or provided as shown with a flap so as to cover the joining of
the sections around the neck and keep all tight.
In operation the user after fixing the chair and heating or vaporizing apparatus,
which may be heated either by gas, oil, or alcohol, pulls or has placed the cabinet
around and over him with the head protruding through the opening whereby the
body is subjected to the hot air or vapour bath, the head attachment with breath-
ing tube being added or not at will of operator. As a fire screen the cabinet is

page_text: opened up and set in any desired position thus providing a combined portable
thermal hot air and vapour bath cabinet with head attachment and air tube, and a
fire or draught screen which is handsome in appearance, easy to manipulate and
efficient in use.
When to be used as a fire or draught screen the frames may be covered with the
waterproof or other material on both sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. Portable cabinets for hot air or vapour baths constructed and arranged
all substantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Second. Combined portable cabinets for hot air or vapour baths and fire or
draught screens constructed and arranged all substantially as herein described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Third. In combination with portable cabinets for hot air or vapour baths the
use of a hood or head covering constructed all substantially as herein described
and illustrated in dotted lines in Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 16th day of February 1800.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.