Specification of Robert Ferryman : bathing machines.

  • Ferryman, R. (Robert)
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Ferryman : bathing machines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O Ferryman s Bathing Machine. movement c and d; e is a bar moving freely in tlie front edge of tlie door, and jointed aty* to another bar <7,.laid in a groove in the bottom of the door moving on a centre at h, with a part at the end i turned downward and coming through the bottom plate; J is a semicircular plate laid in the floor, 5 with holes at small distances from each other to admit the projecting end of the bar i. When the day bolt is drawn back by turning the knob, as in the usual way, it forces back the upper end of the movement d, the lower end of which raises the hind end of the movement c, and forces downward the fore end, which pressing on the end of the bar e, forces it downward, which i 0 raises the hind end of the lower bar i out of one of the holes in the circular plate J, when the door moves freely; but so soon as the hand is taken from the knob the day bolt returns to its place, and the projecting end of the lower bar i drops into one of the holes in the semicircular plate J, and the door is securely stayed in the state it is in at the time the hand is taken from the 15 knob. In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Ferryman, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. ROBT (l.s.) FERRYMAN. 20 AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Ferryman came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid wras stamped according to the tenor of the Statute Inrolled the same Twelfth day of July, in the year above written. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856, John Ord.