IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BATHS TO BE HEATED BY GAS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Quick at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1876.
RICHARD QUICK, of Wharton Street, in the County of Middlesex, Bath Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BATHS TO BE HEATED BY
GAS."
My Invention relates to improvements in the construction of gas baths, that is to
say, baths which are provided with burners supplied with gas, by whose combustion
the water in the bath is heated.
Numerous contrivances have been adopted in the construction of gas baths for
effecting the rapid heating of the water in the same, and for preventing the waste
of heat and offensive smell from the burners, and also to render them durable with
regard to their structure, and their external and internal japanning, painting, or
coating. But notwithstanding the various improvements, alterations, or additions
which have from time to time been applied to these baths they are still very
unsatisfactory in many respects. As ordinarily constructed the heating of the water
in them is very slow; they produce an offensive and injurious smell, a great portion
of the heat of the burners is wasted, and the paint or japan on the exterior of the
bath is very quickly destroyed. Moreover the said baths are very liable to injury
from the carlessness of servants or others having charge of them.
My Invention is designed to remedy these evils and to produce a gas bath which
shall be convenient and economical in use, capable of being rapidly heated, and free
from objectionable smell. For this purpose I construct my improved gas bath as
follows, that is to say, the body of the bath may be of iron, copper, or other suitable
material. The bottom of the bath is surrounded by a rim on which it stands when
in use.
Heretofore baths which are heated by burners under them have had no provision
for confining the heat of the said burners, it has therefore been allowed to escape at
the sides and ends of the bath so that a great portion of the heat has been wasted,
but according to my Invention I surround the space occupied by the burners with
a rim or flange, and I conduct the heat therefrom into and through a narrow
passage or flue formed at the bottom of the bath, and extending from the burners
to, or nearly to, the other end of the bath, and back to a point just outside the rim
which surrounds the burners. The results obtained by this construction are that
the heat is confined to this passage and is compelled to travel through the same so
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page_text: that it is nearly all absorbed by the water, and very little, if any, passes away
without its proper useful effect.
Another cause of waste of heat hitherto existing in these baths is the aperture
through which access is had to the burner. This aperture has heretofore either been
unprotected or covered by a door of solid metal, but I provide the said aperture
with a door or slide of perforated metal which admits air freely to the burners
while preventing any loss of heat through the same or injury to the paint or japan
on the exterior of the bath.
To prevent injury to the floor from the heat of the burners I place under the same
a metal tray or pan which may be filled with sand.