Specification of William Clark : bath apparatus.

  • William Clark
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Clark : bath apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1865.—N° 2749. 3 Clark's Improvements in Bath Apparatus. Fig. 1 represents the apparatus complete; Fig. 2 shows a side view of the apparatus with the tray removed; Fig. 3 shows the different tubes which conduct the water on to the different parts of the body; Fig. 4 shows different forms of rose heads or distributors for shower baths ; Fig. 5 shows a series of 5 nozzles for single jets or injections, and otherwise. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th April 1866. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William 10 Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her 15 reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the 20 term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Improvements in Bath Appa¬ ratus,” a communication to me from abroad by Aloys Biingens, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others) that J, 25 the said William Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the 30 date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Clark, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, 35 and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):— Hydro-therapeutic apparatus or shower baths as now in use possess certain objections as regards their construction and arrangement, which constitutes au
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