Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath.

  • Timmins, Thomas.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Timmins Sf Simmons' Improved Bath. that it shall combine in itself all the advantages of the hot air or Turkish bath, with the vapour, slipper, hot and cold water shower bath, and this we effect by constructing the body of the bath of sufficient size and capacity for general use, with a projection at the head, that when using this bath as a hot air or vapour bath, a pillow may be placed on the projection for the head of 5 the occupant to rest on. Some little way from the bottom we place a strong frame stretched with cane, wire, or other non-absorbent material for the patient to recline on ; and at the sides when required we also place frames stretched in the like manner, standing off at a little distance from the sheet metal sides of which the bath may be composed, for the purpose of protecting 10 the user from contact with the hot metal. A.t the foot an an—way is con* structed and a suitable lamp or other heating apparatus for heating air which is sent into the interior of the bath through the air-way before mentioned. The body of the bath is partially covered over from the bottom end upwards, and to this a counterpoise cover is attached with a close hinge or other joint, 15 so as to form a lid to entirely cover up the bath excepting at the top end, where an opening is formed to receive the neck of the occupant, as the body only is intended to be subjected to the effects of the hot air or vapour, which may be raised to any desired degree of heat, and which freely circulates below and around the occupant. This arrangement will be found highly beneficial as 20 the hot air or vapour in no case is inhaled by the user ; and from the appliances used for supporting the body being non-absorbant, no pernicious disease can be absorbed and communicated to the succeeding user of the same bath. And this description applies generally when such bath is heated with steam or vapour, which may be medicated or otherwise as desired. And by removing 25 the frames before mentioned, and securing the air-way with a suitable plug, the bath is in every way suitable for the use of hot or cold water, which may be supplied or drawn off in the ordinary way. At the head of this bath we a[)ply generally four tubular uprights, and one or more at the bottom for the purpose of supporting a rod for suspending a curtain or curtains around the 30 bath for the sake of privacy; and in connection with the tubular uprights before mentioned, at the head of |the bath, we supply a suitable reservoir divided for hot and cold water, both chambers communicating with valves to the perforated bottom below; that such reservoirs being supplied with hot and cold water, the occupant may by pulling either wire open the desired valve to 35 permit a shower of hot or cold water to descend as he or she may desire. In a general way we purpose placing this bath on stump feet with castors or wheels, that it may be readily, moved about, the whole exterior and interior )