Improvements in Portable Shower Baths, or Showering or Watering Devices.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1897-Accepted, 4th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Shower Baths, or Showering or
Watering Devices.
I ARTHUR SHARPLES of 61 Borough Road, Birkenhead in the County of Cheshire,
Plumber do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a small hollow vessel with a perforated
bottom to be used as a watering or showering device or shower bath independent
of any supply pipes or usual permanent water connections.
The following is a brief description of the invention.
A hollow vessel is made of any suitable metal and fitted with a handle, the
bottom of the vessel is perforated, there is a hole in the vessel to allow the air to
escape and allow of the vessel filling when plunged into water. There is also a
valve in the bottom so that the vessel will fill rapidly.
The flow of the water through the shower is controlled by manipulating the vent
hole in the vessel..
Dated this First day of August 1896.
ARTHUR SHARPLES.
Improvements in Portable Shower Baths or Showering or
Watering Devices.
1, ARTHUR SHARPLES of 61, Borough Road, Birkenhead in the County of Chester
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 object of this invention is to construct a small hollow vessel with a perforated
bottom to be used as a showering or watering device or shower bath independent
of any supply pipes or usual permanent water connections. It is applicable for use
by bathers, for distributing a shower of water upon the bather's person, also for
watering gardens, etcetera. The device can be made cheap and sold at a very reasonable
price, with a view to taking the place in private households of the fixed shower
baths, which are objected to in so far that they are rather costly and liable
sometimes to get out of order.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a front view with a part broken away to show the valves;
Figure 2, a plan, half being a top plan, and half being a plan of the strainer.

page_text: In these figures, A, is a hollow vessel of container for holding water in
suspension therein, and B a hollow stem or handle for holding it by. The container
is closed above but has a pérforated bottom or strainer C fitted with an automatic
non-return valve D which admits of the container filling rapidly when plunged into
water, but which closes automatically when lifted out. E is an air valve or vent
hole in the stem which can be opened by. depressing the button E with the finger
but which will close automatically by the spring F when the pressure that opened
the valve is removed, the object of the valve or vent being to retain or discharge
the contents of the container by admitting air thereto or excluding air therefrom.
The mode of action is as follows:
.
In order to pour a shower of water upon a bather's person, all that is necessary
is for the bather to immerse the device, in its upright position in the water of the.
bath, at the same time depressing the button E so as to allow the air in the
container to escape through the air valve E and ports G. The non-return water
valve D rises automatically admitting water into the container A which it fills,
ejecting the air therefrom through valve E. The bather then releases the button E!,
closing the valve E, and lifts the device out of the water, the water valve D closing
automatically. The water is held in suspension in the chamber A until such time
as the button E¹ is again depressed, when air is admitted into the chamber, and
the water flows through the strainer in the form of a shower or finely divided spray.
In this way the discharge is controlled by manipulating the valve or vent, hole at
the top.
or
In thus describing my invention, it must be understood that the apparatus need
not necessarily be filled by immersion, as it can be equally well filled from a tap
jug by turning the container bottom up, and filling through valve hole without
pressing the button. Perfumes,.,hair tonics, etcetera, can be added to the water
through the valve D. Furthermore the invention is applicable not only for bathing
or shampooing purposes, but also for watering gardens, etcetera.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of iny said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A portable showering or watering device, consisting of a container for holding
water having its top closed but its bottom formed of a perforated strainer or rose,
in combination with a non-return valve at bottom for admitting water into the
chamber, and an air valve. or vent hole above, the latter so arranged as to enable
the user to control the admission of air into the chamber, substantially as and for
the purpose described.
2. A portable showering or watering device, comprising a portable container for
holding water, said chainber being closed at top but having a perforated bottom
or strainer, in combination with an air valve above, so arranged that by filling the
chamber with water by immersion or otherwise, the water can be held in suspension
in said chamber, or discharged in form of a shower through the perforated bottom.
at the will of the operator, substantially as described.
3. The general combined arrangement and construction of parts forming my
improved portable showering or watering device, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of May 1897:
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
aOf Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham; and London; Patent Agents..