IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Jackson, of Broad Street, Golden Square, in
the County of Middlesex, and George Morris Hantler, of Sloane Street,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BATHS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Jackson and George
Morris Hantler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 31st January 1854.
I, JAMES JACKSON, of Broad Street, Golden Square, in the County of
5 Middlesex, and I, GEORGE MORRIS HANTLER, of Sloane Street, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BATHS" to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist in forming baths with the bottom on different
levels, that on which the feet rests being lowest, while the other part is at a
sufficient height from it as to form a comfortable seat on which the bather sits
as on a chair. Each of these parts occupy about one half the area of the
entire bottom of the bath. The sides are suitably sloped according to the
character of the bath required. In using this construction of bath as a hip
bath, it is simply necessary that bathers should seat themselves in the lowest
part of the bath with the feet on the raised seat before mentioned. According
to our Invention, much less water is required than with: ordinary baths and

page_text: a more convenient posture is insured while bathing, or for the purposes of
ablution. Pillars and canopy and other requisites may be fitted to this bath to
render it suitable as a shower bath.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Jackson and George Morris Hantler in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 31st July 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
JACKSON, of Broad Street, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, and
GEORGE MORRIS HANTLER, of Sloane Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Jackson and the said George Morris Hantler, Her special licence
that we, the said James Jackson and the said George Morris Hantler, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James
Jackson and the said George Morris Hantler, our 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said James Jackson and the said George Morris Hantler, by an
instrument in writing under our hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, 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 we, the said James Jackson and the said George
Morris Hantler, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say).:

page_text: Our Invention of improvements in baths consists in forming the baths with
the bottom on different levels, that on which the feet rests being lowest, while
the other part is at a sufficient height from it as to form a comfortable seat on
which the bather sits as on a chair. Each of these parts occupy about one
half the area of the entire bottom of the bath. The sides are suitably sloped
according to the character of the bath required. In using this construction of
bath as a hip bath, it is simply necessary that bathers should seat themselves
in the lowest part of the bath with the feet on the raised seat before
mentioned. According to our Invention, much less water is required than
with ordinary baths, and a more convenient posture is insured while bathing,
or for the purposes of ablution. Pillars and canopy and other requisites may
be fitted to this bath to render it suitable as a shower bath.
Fig. 1 of the Sheet of Drawings annexed represents a side elevation of our
improved bath; Fig. 2, a plan; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical section of the
same. It may be formed of metal or other suitable material. a, a, is the seat
forming part of the bottom of the bath; b, b, being the lower receptacle for
the reception of the feet of the bather. The part a, is united to the lower
part of the bottom c, by a sloping piece f, suitably inclined to accommodate
the position of the body. This bath is also adapted for the purposes of a hip
bath, in which case the bather sits in the lower part of the bath, as seen by
the Figure shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5; the Figure dotted in Fig. 4,
representing the posture of the body seated on a, a. The bath represented
is formed of the same breadth at both ends, but where it is only intended to
be used as shown in Fig. 4, it may be made much narrower at the feet end,
and will consequently be lighter and require much less water. The feet end
may also in that case be more upright or even inclined inwards, in order to
further reduce the quantity of water requisite and lighten the bath.
Instead of making the seat horizontal it may be somewhat inclined, as repre-
sented in dotted lines d, d, Fig. 3, which will give rather more immersion and
produce an equally comfortable form of bath.
Our improved bath, in addition to insuring a comfortable posture for the
bather, is more easily entered and got out of than ordinary baths and is also
lighter, and requires much less water than is usually necessary for baths of the
ordinary construction.
Our improved bath is also adapted for a shower bath when fitted with
the ordinary canopy, pump, and other requisites, as shown in the Drawing,
Fig. 6.
Having described the nature of our Invention and the manner in which

page_text: the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that what we claim
and desire to be protected under the before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the form of bath herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Morris Hantler, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
GEORGE MORRIS HANTLER. (L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM CLARK,
Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.