US688057A

US688057A - Shower-bath.

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Publication number: US688057A
Application number: US5077401A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Bridgman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-03-12
Filing date: 1901-03-12
Publication date: 1901-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 1918-12-03

Description

No. 688,057. Patented Dec. 3, I90l.

W. H. BRIDGMAN.

S H 0 W E B BA T H.

(Application filed Mar. 12. 1901.

(.lo Model.)

WITNESSES UITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM H. BRIDGMAN, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

SHOWER-BATH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,057, dated December 3, 1901. Application filed March 12, 1901- Serial No. 50,774. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BRIDGMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Shower-Baths, of which the following is a fulland complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is an improvement on that described and claimed in the United States Letters Patent No. 650,503,granted to me May 29, 1900, and is fully disclosed in the 'following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a part of a bathtub provided with my improved shower-bath apparatus Fig. 2, a transversesection of the tube, showing the operation of the apparatus; Fig. 3, a perspective view of a detail of the construction, and Figs. 4 and 5 sectional views of other details.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at 7 an ordinary bathtub, which is provided at the top of the sides thereof with flanges or rims 8, and in the practice of my invention I provide a device or apparatus {of the class described which is of the following construction.

My improved device or apparatus, one of which is attached in practice to each side of the tub, comprises a yoke-shaped attachment 9, composed of spring metal and provided centrally of the sides thereof with a transverse rod or bar 10, which passes loosely through said sides, and in order to make the sides of the yoke-shaped attachment sufficiently large and strong at the point where the rod or bar 10 passes therethrough I secure thereon sleeves 11, which are brazed thereto or con nected therewith in any desired manner. The rod or bar 10 is provided at its opposite ends with spring-arms 12, having loops or eyes 13 at their ends, and through these loops or eyes is passed a tube 14, which is perforated at one side, as shown at 15, and said tube is provided with tightly-fitting rubber bands 16, against which the arms 12 bear, and the spring-arms 12, which bear on the rubber bands 16, operate by friction to hold the tube in any desired position. The arms 12 are composed of spring metal, and the rubber bands 16 are so arranged as to bear thereon, and by means of this construction I provide sufficient friction to hold the tube 14 in any desired position in the ends of said arms, the object of this construction being to regulate the direction of the water discharged from said tube, as hereinafter described.

One of the sleeves 11 of the device or apparatus is provided with a serrated or roughened circular portion 17, as shown in Fig. 3, and the rod or bar 10 adjacent thereto is provided with an angular attachment 18, which bears on the said serrated or roughened surface, and by means of this construction the rod or bar 10, which is adapted to turn in the sides of the yoke-shaped attachment 9, may be adjusted therein or held at any desired point, and the arms 12 of said rod or bar may be raised or lowered, as will be readily understood.

The endsof the sides of the yoke-shaped attachment 9 are formed into hooks 9, and

by means of these hooks the device or appa- 1 ratus is connected with the side or sides of the bath-tub, as shown in the drawings, and said hooks are detachable and are connected with the sleeves 11 by a screw-thread, as

shown at 9" in Fig. 4, and said hooks are also adapted to be turned into a horizontal position Whenever desired in the operation of packing the device or apparatus.

The tube 14 is also composed of separate parts, being preferably divided at the middle thereof, as shown at 14 and said separate parts are connected by a screw-thread, as shown in Fig. 5, and this construction also facilitates the separation of the various parts of the apparatus and the packing thereof for shipment or other purposes, and by forming the tube 14 of separate parts, as shown and described, the separate sections thereof may be more readily connected with the arms 12 by being inserted through said arms in opposite directions.

The rod or bar 10 is also provided at the end thereof opposite the angular attachment 18 with a transverse pin 19, which bears on the side of the yoke-shaped attachment 9 adv jacent thereto, and the length of the rod or bar 10* between the sides of the yoke-shaped attachment 9 is such that the said sides of said attachment bear at all times on the pin 19 and on the angular attachment 18, or said sides of said yoke-shaped attachment 9 may be spread apart whenever desired and said yoke-shaped attachment may be turned on the rod or bar 10, or said rod or bar may be turned in the arms or sides of said attachment by simply raising or lowering the tube 14. When the angular part of 18 moves up over the cylindrical surface of 11, it springs the arms of the yokes apart, thus increasing their frictional contact, so that the arms 12, which support the tube 14, are held at any desired point of adjustment by the friction occasioned by the sides of the yoke-shaped attachment 9 operating in connection with the pin 19 and the angular attachment 18.

The length of the arms of the yoke-shaped attachment 9 is such that the tube 14 may be swung around the cross-head of the yokeshaped attachment 9, as indicated by the dotted lines 20 in Fig. 2', and all that is necessary in connecting the device or apparatus with the side of the tube is to place the hookshaped portions 9 in the position shown in Fig. 2, when the yoke-shaped attachment 9 will rest on the top of said sides of the tub and will extend inwardly thereover. In this position of the parts the tube 14 may be raised or lowered,- as desired, and the direction of the water discharged therefrom into the tub is indicated in the position of the parts shown in Fig. 2 by the dotted lines 21, and by raising or lowering said tube the di= rection of the water may be changed, as will be readily understood.

In practice a flexible tube is connected with one end of the tube 14 and with any suitable water-supply for the purpose of supplying water to said tube 14; but this feature forms no part of this invention and is therefore not shown and described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A device of the class described, comprising a yoke-shaped attachment, having spring sides provided with hooks adapted to engage the sides of a bath-tub so that the attachment will project inwardly thereover, a rod or bar passing loosely through the spring sides of the attachment, said bar being provided at one end with means for preventing the corresponding spring side of the said attachment from moving inwardly thereon and at the opposite end with a device which 0perates in connection with the corresponding spring side of the attachment for holding said rod or bar at any desired adjustment in said yoke-shaped attachment, said rod or bar being also provided at its opposite ends with projecting spring-arms and a perforated water-tube passed through the ends of said spring-arms and adapted to be turned therein, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device of the class described adapted to be connected with the side of the bath-tub and to project inwardly thereover and provided with a horizontal and turnable bar or rod and means for holding the said rod or bar in any position into which it may be turned, spring-arms connected with the ends of said rod or bar, a perforated water-tube passing through the ends of said arms and adapted to be turned therein, and friction bands placed on said water-tube,and against which said arms are adapted to bear, substantially as shown and described.

3. Adevice of the class described adapted to be connected with the side of the bath-tub, and provided with a horizontal turnable rod or bar, means for holding the said rod or bar in any position into which it may be turned, spring-arms connected with the ends of said rod or bar, a perforated water-tube passing through the ends of said arms and adapted to be turned therein, and friction-bands placed on said water-tube and against which said arms are adapted to bear, said water-tube be ing composed of separate parts, substantially as shown and described.

4. A device of the class described, comprising a yoke-shaped attachment having spring sides, hooks connected with the ends thereof and adapted to engage the side of a bath-tub, a rod or bar passing through the spring sides of said attachment and turnable therein, said rod or bar and said spring sides being pro= vided with means for holding the rod or bar and the attachment at any desired adjust ment, spring-arms connected with the ends of said rod or bar and a perforated watertube passed through the ends of said springarms and devices connected with said tube against which the arms bear to hold the tube in any desired position, substantially as shown and described.

5. A device of the class described, comprising a yoke-shaped attachment having spring sides, turnable hooks connected therewith and adapted to engage the side of a bath-tub, a rod or bar passing through the spring sides of said attachment and adapted to turn therein, stops connected with said rod or bar against which the spring sides of the attach ment bear, spring-arms connected with the ends of said rod or bar, a, perforated watertube passing through the ends of said springarms and turnable therein,and friction-bands on said tube against which said arms bear, substantially as shown and described.

6. A device of the class described, comprising a yoke-shaped attachment having spring sides provided with hooks which are turnable therein and which are adapted to en gage the side of a bath-tub, a rod or bar passing loosely through the spring sides of said attachment and turnable therein, means for holding said rod or bar in any position in which it may be turned, parallel spring-arms my invention I have signed my name, in presconnected with the ends of said rod or bar ence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 9th day 10 and a perforated Water-tube mounted in the of March, 1901.

ends of said arms and. provided with mem- 5 bers against which said arms bear, said tube WVILLIAM BRIDGMAN being adapted to be turnedin said arms, snb- WVitnesses: stantially as shown and described. F. A. STEWART,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as F. TELLER.