Specification of William Patch Wyatt : baths.

  • Wyatt, William Patch.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Patch Wyatt : baths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wyatt's Improvements in Baths, being a vertical section and plan of a bath constructed on similar principles, the user being placed in a sitting posture. For the purpose of supplying the interior of the bath with pure heated air in accordance with my improvements (in place of burnt air 5 or the fumes of gas), a tubular chamber A made of terra cotta, metal, or other material is arranged at the foot of the bath, as shown, having air passages communicating with the external atmosphere and the interior chamber D of the bath. The chamber D of the bath is heated by a suitable furnace or by means of a gas burner A, the burnt air 10 from which passes around the outer surface of the air supply tubes A^. and thence along a flue A^ under the bottom of the bath, thus assisting to heat the bath as it passes to a vertical flue pipe A^ at the head of the bath, which when desired may be arranged to pass through or around the vessel containing water for the shower bath B, so as to impart heat 15 thereto. In some cases where the baths are fixed or stationary I conduct the flues around the hollow sides of the bath and away to a chimney at the end of the bath. The reservoir for the shower bath in place of being attached to the 20 cover of the bath, as described in the Specification above referred to, is according to my present improvements placed in a more convenient position at the head of the bath, being connected with the distributing surface or tube by means of a flexible tube C of india-rubber or other¬ wise, by which arrangement the cover D of the bath can be opened when 25 the shower bath reservoir B is charged with water, which is impossible with the former arrangement. The tubes for discharging water on to the patient or user are also more conveniently arranged, the perforated rose head jets being placed at a suitable angle or incline for discharging the water on to the 30 face of the patient or user; the pull or lever W being also so arranged within the bath that the user can discharge or cut off the water when desired. - In place of the mattress hitherto employed in baths of this character, according to my present improvements padded laths E, E, are sub- 35 stituted, upon which the patient or user is supported, thus permitting
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