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

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Cabinets for Hot Air and 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:-
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 be collapsed so as to occupy little space.
Under one modification the improvements consist in forming the portable
cabinet of square form, that is, with four sides and a close top, the material used
being preferably waterproof cloth or other like impervious flexible material
capable of standing a high temperature without deterioration. The material is
stitched firmly together and formed with open ended casings along each side at
top and bottom. Light metal or wooden rods are inserted within these casings
and have their adjacent ends secured together by screw nuts screwing on to the
ends of one pair of the rods which are passed through holes or eyes in the ends
of the adjacent pair of rods, but other means of temporarily securing them
together may be used. A hole is formed in the top of the cabinet for the head
of the user to pass through and a collar of cloth is sewn around this hole with
elastic material threaded through a casing at its inner edge to make a vapour
tight joint around the neck when in use. The cabinet may simply be supported
on the shoulders of the user or may be suspended from above in any convenient
manner, or if desired vertical jointed folding rods may be inserted at each corner,
or the cabinet may be supported on any convenient form of framing. Perfora-
tions are made near the bottom to admit the necessary air to allow the lamp to
burn freely.
Under another modification the cabinet may be formed round, oval, or other
shape and have hoops to suit inserted at top and bottom instead of removable
rods and these hoops may be jointed if desired.
A head covering or hood of impervious and waterproof material is also pro-
vided 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 eye-holes. This head covering
would be made wide at its lower part so as to cover the opening in top of cabinet
and the collar around the neck would be opened or expanded to allow the vapour
to pass within the head cover.
In operation the user after fixing the chair with heating apparatus under it
takes the cabinet over the head and sits on chair the cabinet covering the
operator and chair and resting lightly on the shoulders and reaching to the floor.
Dated the 9th day of November 1898.

page_text: Improvements in Portable Cabinets for Hot Air and 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 accom-
panying 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 be collapsed so as to occupy little space.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have here-
unto appended one sheet of explanatory drawings in which Figures 1 and 2
illustrate different shapes of portable cabinets and Figures 3 and 4, one method
of securing the rods which keep the cabinets extended in shape when in use.
Under one modification as shown in Figure 1, the improvements consist in
forming the portable cabinets of square form, that is,, with four sides A, and a
close top B, the material used being preferably waterproof cloth or other like
impervious flexible material capable of standing a high temperature without
deterioration. The material is stitched firmly together and formed with open
ended casings C, along each side at top and bottom. Light metal or wooden
rods are inserted within these casings and may have their adjacent ends secured
together by screw nuts screwing on to the ends of the one pair of the rods which
are passed through holes or eyes in the ends of the adjacent pair of rods, but
other means of temporarily securing them together may be used, such as shown
in Figure 3 in which the ends of the rods D, are shown as inserted into the
angled ferrules D¹, or one end of each rod may be secured to a ferrule and the
other end be loosely inserted into the ferrule on the next rod.
A hole E, is formed in the top of the cabinet for the head of the user to pass
through and a collar of cloth E¹, is sewn around this hole with elastic material
threaded through a casing at its inner edge to make a vapour tight joint around
the neck when in use. Another and smaller opening F is preferably made to
one side of the neck hole for the hand to be passed through for the purpose of
the bather using a handkerchief to wipe the head and face during the bath, this
opening being made to open and close by means of clastic band as shown or hook
and eye or other similar device. The cabinet may simply be supported on the
shoulders of the user or may rest on movable metal or other supports in any
convenient manner, or if desired vertical jointed folding rods may be inserted
at each corner, or the cabinet may be supported on any convenient form of
framing. Perforations G are made near the bottom and top to admit the neces-
sary air to allow the lamp to burn freely.
Ünder another modification the cabinet may be formed round as shown in
Figure 2, oval, or other shape and have hoops to suit inserted in casings at top
and bottom instead of removable rods and these hoops may be jointed if desired,
or connected at their ends by inserting one end into a socket D¹, on the other
all as shown in Figure 4.
A head covering or 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 opening in top of cabinet
and the collar around the neck would be opened or expanded to allow the vapour

page_text: to pass within the head cover all as shown and claimed in my prior Patent
No. 20,623 of 1898.
In operation the user after fixing the chair with heating apparatus under it
takes the cabinet over the head and sits on chair the cabinet covering the
operator and chair and resting lightly on the shoulders and reaching to the
floor, and when not in use the rods or rings are removed from the casing and
the cabinet collapsed for folding away.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention 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
substantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Second. Portable cabinets for hot air or vapour baths constructed of flexible
material and fitted with removable rods or rings for expanding same into shape,
substantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 9th August 1899.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.