New or Improved Portable or Collapsible Apparatus for Providing a Vapour or Turkish Bath.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Portable or Collapsible Apparatus for Providing
a Vapour or Turkish Bath.
I GEORGE HUGHES, of 23 Coleman Street, in the County of London, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a communication to
me by F. Guido. Max Sternkopf, of Eibenstock, Germany, Teacher,) to be as
follows::-
My invention relates to new or improved portable or collapsible apparatus for
providing a vapour or Turkish bath, and in carrying such invention into practice,
provide a cylindrical or similar basin formed of iron or other suitable material, to
the outside of which basin, are secured in any suitable manner, preferably at two
diametrically opposite points two sockets, in which are:fixed by means of set screws
or the like hollow or other vertical rods.
To the inside of the basin is fixed by soldering, rivetting or in any other suitable
manner, a solid ring preferably circular in section, which ring constitutes itself a
bearing or support for a second ring which is secured by sewing or other means,
to the lower end of a cylinder composed of cloth, leather, or other flexible
material.
:
The said second ring is normally kept pressed down upon the supporting ring,
by means of flat or other springs fixed to the vertical tubes or hollow rods
aforesaid:
Around the upper end of the said flexible cylinder is attached a metal or other
band or ring, to which vertical pivots are rivetted, which pivots enter sliding pieces
held by the vertical tubes or hollow rods aforesaid and are fastened by means of
screws or their equivalent.
In order to alter the top band or ring, so as to conform to the height of the
person using this apparatus, each sliding piece aforesaid (forming substantially
a U-shaped body with legs, through which the tubes pass) is provided with an arin
having an opening through which passes a plug or headed pin, the forward
extremities of which is designed to enter a hole (of which there are a number)
provided for the purpose in the respective vertical pipe-containing tube or hollow
rod, thereby securing the top band or ring, from which depends the flexible cylinder
aforesaid, at the desired altitude.
.
A piece of suitable flexible material is secured to the said top band or ring, for
the purpose of closely surrounding the neck of the bather, and closing the upper
end of the said flexible cylinder, such closing piece being preferably lined with
satin or similar smooth-surfaced material, and is provided around the central opening
through which the bathers head projects, with a leather or other protecting collar,
having a cord or similar means for enabling such opening to be closed by drawing
the material together or puckering same.
A suitable inlet is provided, preferably in the side of the basin, for the purpose of
supplying the steam or the like necessary for the bath.
Dated this 11th day of October 1894.

page_text: New or Improved Portable or Collapsible Apparatus for Providing
a Vapour or Turkish Bath.
I, GEORGE HUGHES of 12 Basinghall Street, in the County of London, have an
invention which has been communicated to me by. Guido Max Sternkopf, of
Eibenstock, in the Kingdom of Saxony, and I 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 a collapsible vapour bath which is shewn in 'the
accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1' is a vertical section; Fig. 2 a partial section
on line of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 an elevation of this improved bath, Figs. 4 to 7.
shewing details.
This apparatus consists essentially of a basin, a cylinder of suitable fabric, and
convenient guiding means.
The basin or receptacle A of tinned sheet iron has the form of a hollow cylinder
closed at its lower extremity. Upon two diametrically opposite parts is fixed from
the outside by means of solder or of rivets a socket or sleeve a.
1.
Within these sockets or sleeves a are fixed by means of set screws the
uprights.c (gas pipes) of the guide C. A ring d of tinned iron is fixed by:solder
or rivets to the inner surface of the basin A.
This ring dis placed upon a second tinned iron ring ewbich is sewn to the lower
edge of the casing B made of leather fabric.
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The ringe is pressed down on the ring d by the two springs fixed by rivets to
the uprights and is thus tightly held in position. To the upper edge of the
fabric casing or body B is firmly sewn a ring g of flat tinned iron Figs. 5 and 6.
To this ring gare. rivetted. vertical pins.h Figs. 6 and 7 which enter the sliding
blockguided by the uprights.c and are fixed thereto by means of set screws k.:
In order to be able to displace vertically the ring g according to the height of the
person using the bath, this sliding block which forms essentially a Vishaped body
whose limbs are carried by the uprights.c, is furnished with an arm having
an opening, and with an opening, these openings receiving a bolt miserving as a
support for the V shaped sliding piece.i.
:
By introducing the latter bolt in one of the holes c of the uprights c the ring 9
is forthwith fixed in position.
1.
A piece of leather cloth D covered below with satin is sewn to the ring g at the
same time as the latter is fixed to the casing or body B made of suitable fabric, so
as to serve as a cover for the latter and to surround the neck of the person using
the apparatus Figs. 1, 5,16. Near the neck is arranged a leather collar D'Fig. 1
for the purpose of protecting the satin from humidity.
This collar D is provided with a cord n whereby it may be tightly fastened to
the neck of the person using the apparatus.
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The apparatusior vapour bath is worked as follows:-
When the sliding piece. is in its deepest position, the person enters the basin A
and after having been seated on a stool placed inside the apparatus he or she raises
the ring guntil it reaches the height of his or her neck when the said person shoots
the bolts into the nearest holes c₁ of the uprights c.
The cylinder D which has, when the cord is untied.and the ringig, is raised, a
cylindrical shape, as shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1, assumes now a flat shape when
this cord n is pulled and has the fully extended form shewn in Fig. 1.
Steam or medicated vapour can now be admitted through an opening o.of the
basin or receptacle A.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
CLAIM.
1. A collapsible vapour bath consisting of a basin or receptacle A on the ring d
of which is pressed by the aid of the springs the ring e sewn to the lower edge of
a casing of suitable fabric B Figs. 1 and 2, while the upper edge of this casing is
Bewn to a ring g (Figs. 1, 5, and 6) the pins h of which cuter the sliding piece i from
the uprights.c held by the sleeves or sockets a of the basin A, whereby this sliding
piece is coupled by means of its bolt with the corresponding upright, the
cylinder B being closed at the top by a piece of material D provided with a
collar D¹, sewn likewise to the ring g and drawn by a cord around the neck of the
person using the apparatus or bath substantially as herein described and shewn.
Dated this 15th day of December 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C.; Agents.