Specification of George Lovett : portable apparatus for administering hot hair, [sic] vapour, and shower baths.

  • Lovett, George.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of George Lovett : portable apparatus for administering hot hair, [sic] vapour, and shower baths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •M * Portable Apparatus for Administering Hot Air, Vapour, and Shower Baths. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Lovett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th October 1858. 5 Middlesex, Medical Shampooer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Portable Apparatus por Administering Hot Air, Vapor, and Shower Baths,” to be as follows:— The chief object of this Invention is to provide portable apparatus whereby vapor, shower, and medicated baths may be administered to patients at their 10 own homes. The vapor and shower baths being usually administered in close succession, I construct the apparatus so that the patient may receive them both at one sitting. For this purpose I provide a shallow bath pan of suitable dimensions, and fit therein a frame to carry a chair, on which the patient is to sit. Under this chair I provide a metal box pierced with holes, 15 and into which enters a steam pipe fitted with a tap, and leading to a boiler mounted in a portable furnace. Fitting into sockets formed in the bath pan are rods, which serve to carry at their upper end the head of the bath, on which is mounted a vessel for containing the shower water. This vessel is formed and fitted in the usual way of making shower baths, and to confine SO the shower, a curtain is provided as usual, which descends to the bath pan. Surrounding this curtain, and pendent from the head of the bath, is a second curtain, the lower edge of which is secured to the lip of the pan (after the