US69968A - Improved bath-tub - Google Patents

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i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN o. OLAP?, OE HOMEE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED BATH-TUB.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 69,968, dated October 22, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. GLAPP, of Homer, in the county of Cortland and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Collapsible and Portable Bath; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved bath; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, views in diierent portions of the frame.

My invention consists in a flexible collapsible portable bath or receptacle, made of rubber cloth.l oil-cloth.l or other suitableimpervious material so arranged as to hold water and allow the bathing of the person therein, and when not in use capable of being folded up for storage or transportation.

It also consists of a frame used in connection therewith.

Asrepresented in the drawings, A is the bath. I prefer to make it of india-rubber cloth;

but, if desired, it may be made of oil-cloth or any other llexible material that will answer the purpose. It is made of the dishing or hollowing sha-pe shown for holding the water necessary in bathing, and it may be either formed entire from a single piece of cloth, or it may be formed of several pieces cut ot' the proper shape and seamed so as to be watertight. The size may be such as not only to hold the requisite amount of water, but also to receive the person of the bather.

rlhe great advantage of this invention will be apparent at a glance. It answers the same purpose, for general use, as the ordinary inetallic tub, while it is much simpler and cheaper. It can be extended in size as much as desired without involving great cost. For travelers ilse it is of much importance, for in transportation `it can be' rolled up and packed in very small compass, and in vuse it is only necessary to unroll it, when it answers the purpose when an ordinary bath cannot be obtained. It is also of much value in bathing children. If made of rubber or oil-cloth, the water will liever penetrate, and therefore it is easily dried. It is also kept clean by washing.

To suitably support the bath, I prefer to ernploy a frame of the following construction: The top edges of the bath are scanned, as shown, or otherwise provided with attachments, and through these seams ou the sides are run rods B B, having jointed or hinged to the ends thereof legs G C in such a manner as to fold up longitudinally4 when desired, as shown in Fig. 3. Through the end seams are run rods D D, having their ends a a turned down in right-angled form, as shown in Fig. 4. The inside of the legs, at the top, and also the ends of the side rods, B, have small vertical sockets b b, which receive the ends a a of the end rods.

By this connection of the parts composing the frame the same is stiiened while in use, as in Fig. l; but when it is desirable to fold the bath for storage or transportation the disconnection of the parts will allow it to be done without difficulty.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A portable bath made of india-rubber cloth or equivalent flexible water-tight material, in such a formand manner that it may be collapsed and com pactly folded or rolled into a portable bundle, substantially as herein specilied.

2. The combination of the frame B C D with the portable bath A, the whole constructed and operated substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN C. CLAPP.

Witnesses: Y

R. F. OsGooD, J. A. DAVIS.

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