US797828A - Cabinet-bath. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

A. A VEREL CABINET BATH.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.13,1903.

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CABINET-BATH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed August 18, 1903. Serial No, 169,359.

T0 at whom it HY/CU] concern.-

Be it known that I, ALPHONSO ANTHONY VEREL, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Glasgow, Scotland, (whose postal address is 179 West George street, Glasgow, Scotland,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements Connected with Cabinet-Baths, for which application for British Patent No. 1,625, dated January 23, 1903, has been made,.and of which the l'ollowing is a specification.

My said invention relates to what are known as cabinet-baths, and has for its object to improve the construction of such baths, and especially the parts relating to the heating thereof, so that while practically retaining the advantages of using the heater within the bath the possibility of danger by fire is minimized, and the products of combustion may at the same time, if desired, be taken off without coming in contact with the body of the user.

In order that my said invention may be fully understood, I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to in describing the improvements.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the drawing are respectively a longitudinal vertical section, a sectional plan, and a transverse vertical section of a cabinet-bath as made with my improvements. Figs. A, 5, and 6 are respectively a side elevation, a plan, and a front elevation of a detail in connection therewith. Fig. 7 is a side vertical section, and Fig. 8 a front elevation of a modification of a hood connected with the bath.

In the drawings the same reference-letters are used to mark the same or like parts.

In carrying out my invention in the case of a fixed or non-collapsible bath, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the bath-cabinet A is made with a raised floor or bottom, which is divided into three portions B, B and B. The portion of floor B is formed of a removable grating B", underneath which a hood C is inserted. This hood is preferably of rectangular form and is divided by a bailie projection or partition G into two parts, which may be termed,

, 1.1. t, a u. respect1vely,a burner-space(/ anda fluespaee l, a communicating opening O" being formed between the two spaces at the battle partition. The burner space O is formed with an upper opening O, which can be closed by a lid O, and it is also furnished with an inlet at the back to fit over a corresponding opening A in the back wall A of the bath A, these inlets being arranged to permit of the insertion of a suitable heating appliance, preferably, as shown, in the form of an ordinary Bunsen gas burner I) and for the admission of air direct to the burner. The regulating-tap D for the burner is fitted inside the bath, so that it can thus be conveniently operated by the user. The flue-space O is provided with .an outlet O at the front, to which may be attached a flexible or other suitable pipe C. The hood-piece G is attached at its inlet end to a metal protecting-plate G, secured to the back wall A of the bath, the plate and hood being fixed to each other by means of interlocking grooves G, so as to make a tight joint, or the parts may be fixed in any other convenient way. A seat H, preferably covered with cork or other suitable non-conducting material, is attached to crossbars H, arranged to rest and slide on brackets H fixed to the sides of the bath A, several sets of these brackets being provided, so as to enable the seat to be conveniently adjusted to different heights when necessary.

When the burner D is lighted, the heat which is gradually set up in the bath is solely a pure dry heat, which is radiated from the hood-piece C, as the products of combustion cannot enter the bath and therefore do not come in contact with the body of the user. The floor arrangement is also extremely advantageous during the heating process, as the sides of the central portion beneath the grating containing the hood-piece C tend to prevent the heated air from spreading at the bottom, and hence direct it onto the body of the bather. The products of combustion instead of passing from the burner-space G into the bath pass through the communicating opening G into the tiue-space O Where they travel along and give off heat till they are expelled through the outlet-nozzle O at the front. The pipe O", attached to the nozzle, instead of being led straight out, as shown, may be led round the inside of the bath to a suitable extent before being carried to the outside, thereby increasing the heating-surface to some extent. In some cases where the raised-floor arrangement is not convenient a stool J, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, may be provided over the hood-piece C, so as to form a warmer and rest for the feet, the stool being preferably formed with a sparred or gratinglike top J and iitting saddle-wise over the hood-piece.

In Figs. 7 and 8 a simpler form of hoodpiece is shown, consisting only of a burnerspace G which is closed at the front preferably by means of a sliding door K, so that the burner D or other heating appliance used can thus he entered either from the back or the front, the hood 0 being provided with openings C for the escape into the interior of the bath of the air heated in its passage over the burner, the products of combustion also passing through into the bath-cabinet in this particular construction. Another arrangement of this short type of hood-piece C may be employed, if desired, the variations in the parts being slight and confined to the inlet-fitting at the back. In this case a short air-pipe portion is fitted to the back part of the burnerspace C the outer end of the pipe then fitting into a corresponding opening in the back wall of the bath. lVith this form of hood-piece the burner D is entered at the front, as the airpipe, which may be of circular section, is only made large enough to pass in the necessary quantity of air.

When it is desired to produce aqueous vapor within the hathA, the following arrangement is adopted: An open pan L, containing water, is inserted into the upper opening C of the hood-pieceC immediately over the burner D, as shown in Fig. 7, afiange L being formed round the mouth of the pan, so as to allow it to rest on the top of the hood piece. The water is thus vaporized as required by the heat from the burner D underneath the pan L. If it is desired that the aqueous vapor thus produced should be medicated or perfumed, a small open pot M, containing the medicament or perfume, is suspended in the pan L from a bar M, formed across the mouth of the pan. The medicament thus becomes vaporized as required by the action of the heated water on the pot M, which dips well down into the water. A most efiicient and advantageous method of medication is thus provided, as the medicament or perfume 1s kept out of contact wlth the water, while a free ascent is also allowed for the vapor. The pan L and pot M, although shown only in connection with the short hood-piece illustrated in Fig. 7, are equally applicable to the long type of hoodpiece shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

The improvements as hereinbefore described may also he appliedin connection with ordinary folding portable cabinet-baths.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. A bath-cabinet having a raised floor consisting of two closed side spaces, and an open central space fitted with a detachable grating, a hood-piece within the central space and comprisinga burner and flue space, a lidded opening on the hood-piece over the burner-space, a removable pan for such opening, an inlet part on the burner-space jointed or fitted to a corresponding opening in the wall of the cabinet, and a burner or heating appliance arranged within the burner-space of the hood,- piece.

2. A bath-cabinet having a raised floor consisting of two closed side spaces, and an open central space fitted with adetachable grating, a hood-piece within the central space and comprising a burner and flue space, alidded opening on the hood-piece over the burner-space, a removable pan for such opening, an inlet part on the burner-space jointed or fitted to a corresponding opening in the wall of the cabinet, a baflic partition and a communicating opening formed between the burner and fiue spaces,an outlet-nozzle on the flue-space, a pipe having one end fitted to the nozzle and the other end carried to the outside of the bath, and a burner or heating appliance arranged within the burner-space of the hood-piece.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHONSO ANTHONY viinEL.

WVitnesses:

DAVID FEReUsoN, GEORGE PATTERSON.

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