IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOWER BATHS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Carey, of the Parade, Harleyford Road,
Vauxhall, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOWER BATHS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Carey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
August 1856.
I, CHARLES CAREY, of the Parade, Harleyford Road, Vauxhall, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOWER BATHS," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in shower baths. For this
purpose the frame may be either formed to take readily to pieces, to pack close
when for carriage, and to be put together with screws or otherwise, or the
parts of the framing may be fixed one to the other. The vessel to contain the
water is arranged to slide up and down in the frame in such manner that it
may, when to be filled, be lowered down to a height convenient for a person to
pour in the water, and be there supported by a folding bracket, then, by means
of a bar and two cords, chains, or straps, the vessel may be raised to its position,
the bar being passed under two hooks or stops in order to retain for a time
the vessel at its highest position; the bracket then being folded back receives
and sustains the vessel, it being released from the hooks. The vessel is

page_text: provided with a suitable outlet and rose head, and the flow of the water from
the vessel to the rose head is allowed or stopped by a cock or valve, which is
moved by the person taking the bath, by a handle, cord, or otherwise. At the
bottom of the bath is placed a pan to receive the water; and in order to
facilitate the drawing off of the water therefrom, it is arranged to be lifted a
height, and to be upheld in position in like manner to the other vessel, in
order that a pail or other vessel may be put under the cock or outlet. If
it is desired to be portable, the pan is made flexible, of waterproof fabric
or material, and there is at bottom wood capable of being folded by the parts
being hinged together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Carey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
CAREY, of the Parade, Harleyford Road, Vauxhall, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Carey, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Carey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Carey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOWER BATHS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Carey, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Carey, do hereby declare the
Lature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:-
may,
This Invention has for its object improvements in shower baths. For this
purpose the frame may be either formed to take readily to pieces, to pack close
when for carriage, and to be put together with screws or otherwise, or the
parts of the framing may be fixed one to the other. The vessel to contain the
water is arranged to slide up and down in the frame in such manner that it
I when to be filled, be lowered down to a height convenient for a person to
pour in the water, and be there supported by a folding bracket, then, by means
of a bar and two cords, chains, or straps, the vessel may be raised to its position,
the bar being passed under two hooks or stops in order to retain for a time the
vessel at its highest position; the bracket then being folded back receives and
sustains the vessel, it being released from the hooks. The vessel is provided
with a suitable outlet and rose head, and the flow of the water from the vessel to
the rose head is allowed or stopped by a cock or valve, which is moved by the
person taking the bath, by a handle, cord, or otherwise. At the bottom of the
bath is placed a pan to receive the water; and in order to facilitate the drawing
off of the water therefrom, it is arranged to be lifted a height, and to be
upheld in position in like manner to the other vessel, in order that a pail or
other vessel may be put under the cock or outlet. If it is desired to be
portable, the pan is made flexible, of waterproof fabric or material, and there
is at bottom wood capable of being folded by the parts being hinged together.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto

page_text: vessel d, the bar h is passed under the stops or hooks i, i, so as to lift and
support the vessel d; the folding frame k which carries the bracket e is then
moved on its axes into the horizontal position shewn by red lines, the cross
bar h is then released from the stops i, and the vessel d lowered on to the
frame k, and it is then at a convenient height for filling. At the bottom of
the bath is placed a pan to receive the water; to this pan ropes m, m, are
attached, which pass over pullies n, n, and are fastened to bars o, o; when it is
necessary to empty the pan l, it is raised sufficiently high to receive a pail or
other receptacle under the spout A, by passing the bars o, o, under the stops or
hooks p, p.
l
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Carey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
AR. CARPMAEL.
CHA CAREY. (L.B.)