Improvements in Sitz Baths and in Appliances Connected therewith.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 30th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sitz Baths and in Appliances Connected therewith.
1, JOHN DRAKE of Winterbank Queensbury in the County of York Architect,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct such baths and the appliances
connected therewith as to render their use as little inconvenient as may be, to avoid
necessity of patient undressing, and to effectually protect the clothes or dress from
vapour or odour arising from the use of medicated waters.
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According to this my invention I employ a shallow vessel or dish, covered by a
seating through which is an opening corresponding in shape to the letter D, which I
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find the most convenient shape for the sitz bath or
upper douche bath."
centre of bottom of the dish is the orifice of an inlet pipe connected with hot and cold
water pipes, the taps of which are convenient to hand, so that a vertical flush of water
of desired temperature is afforded; Nearer the front of the dish, is another inlet for
hot and cold water, but much smaller than the one first referred to, this gives a
powerful impinging jet.
At one side of the D is a nipple to which a flexible tube can readily be attached.
This is for internal application of water or of medicated water, the latter being supplied
from a vessel above the level of the bath seat so as to give the requisite pressure, and
is controlled by a tap near the seat; this tube is readily detached when not required
Above and folding on hinges so as to cover the first seat and its D shaped
aperture, is another lid or cover through which is cut or formed an oblong or pear
shaped opening, the other portion of the lid forming a smooth surface on which the
clothes or dress of the patient rests. This additional lid and its peculiar form of
aperture not only serves for purpose of protecting the clothes from any contact between
for use.

page_text: the water or the spray therefrom but also the escape of any vapour or odour as the
peculiar form of the aperture is such that when sat upon it is hermetically sealed.
The arrangements above described are designed for permanently fixed baths, but
for portable bath, there will be required a water containing vessel, for supply, and I
prefer to construct such of rectangular form, having one or more divisional plates or
partitions, between which medicated as well as hot and cold water is, as the source of
supply, from which to draw; the vessel of course being fixed at some level higher
than the seating, as convenient and as will give the requisite pressure.
The necessary waste pipe is provided.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sitz Baths and in Appliances Connected therewith.
I, JOHN DRAKE of Winterbank, Queensbury, in the County of York, Architect,
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 so construct such baths and the appliances
connected therewith as to render their use as little inconvenient as may be. To avoid
necessity of the patient undressing, and so effectually protect the clothes, or dress
from vapour, or odour arising from the use of medicated waters.
Such being the nature and object of this my invention, the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a
part of this specification in which :-
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of portable bath.
Fig. 2. is a side elevation of fig. 1.
Fig. 3. is a front view of fixed bath, having its two covers, or lids raised.
Fig. 4. is a plan view of fig. 3, having both lids or covers down or closed.
Fig. 5. is a similar view, but shewing the top lid or cover in the raised position for
sitz bath.
Fig. 6. is the same view shewing both lids raised.
Figs. 7 & 8. are front elevations, partly in section, of Fig. 3, shewing the impinging
jet, and the flexible tube, and jet.
Fig. 9 is an enlarged view of fig. 7.
According to this my invention I employ a shallow vessel, or dish 1, as shewn
by Figs. 7 and 8, covered by a seating 2 through which is an opening 3 corresponding
in shape to the letter D, which I find the most convenient shape for the sitz bath, or
upward douche bath, the hot, and cold water for which is supplied through the
orifice 4, from taps 5. 5. Above the orifice 4 is a nipple 6 of an inlet pipe connected
with hot and cold water pipes, the taps 7, 7, of which are convenient to hand so that a
vertical flush of water of desired temperature is afforded, and providing a powerful
impinging jet S. And when more water is required to be thrown up, or a thicker jet
necessary, the bottom of the D shaped basin 1 is to be covered with water part of
which is carried up with the impinged jet S, and so the desired large jet, or supply is
provided according to the level, or quantity of water in the basin 1 so will more or less
be lifted, and carried upwards through the action of the jet.
At one side of the D is another nipple 9 to which a flexible tube 10 can readily be
attached. This is for internal application of water, or of medicated water the latter
being supplied from a overhead source above the level of the hath seat, so as to give
the requisite pressure, and controlled by a tap 12 near the seat, this tube 10 is readily
detached when not required for use.
Above and folding on hinges so as to cover the first seat 2, and its D shaped
aperture 3 is another lid or cover 13 through which is cut or formed, an oblong,

page_text: or pear shaped opening 14 the other of the said lid 13 forming a smooth surface on
which the clothes, or dress of the patient rests. This additional lid 13, and its
peculiar form of aperture 14 not only serves for purpose of protecting the clothes, or
dress from contact, between the water, or the spray therefrom, but also prevents
escape of
any vapour, or odour, as the peculiar form of the aperture, is such, that when
sat upon it is hermetically sealed.
The arrangements above described are designed for permanently fixed baths, but
for portable haths there will be required a like construction of apparatus, and a
water containing vessel such as 15 for supply, and I prefer to construct such of
rectangular form having one or more divisional plates, or partitions 16, 17, between
which is medicated, as well as hot, and cold water, as the source of supply from which
to draw. The vessel 15. being, of course fixed at some level higher than the seating,
as convenient, and giving the requisite pressure. 18 is the outer hinged lid, or cover.
The necessary waste pipes are provided.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature and object of
my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare
that what I claim is :--
The construction, combination, and arrangement of parts constituting the improved
portable, or fixed, sitz, and douche baths, as herein fully described, and substantially
as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
JOHN DRAKE.
By his Agent,
Walter Brierley,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax.