US36720A - Improvement in vapor-baths - Google Patents

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W. LIBBEY- VAPOR BATH.

No. 36,720. Patented Oct. 21, 1862.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' LIBBEY, or CLEVELAND. OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT l NVAPOft-BATHS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,120, dated October 21, 1862.

To all whom it may eoneerrt: made of open-work,like the seat, for the purleit knownthat I, ILW. LtBBEY,of Cleveposeof exposing the soles of the feetto the land, in the couutyef Guyahoga and State of action of the vapor. Both the seat and foot- Ohio, havcim'entcd new and useful Improverest are supported upon bars or brackets E, nicntsinVapor-Baths; and Ido hereby declare and are adjustable to suit the height of the that. the following is a full and complete depatient. scription of the construction and operation of 1') represents a backrest, which slides up the same, reference being had to, the accomand downon the rods D, and can therefore be panying, drawings, making part of this specishifted to any desired position to accommolication, in which-- date the patient.

Figure l is a perspective'view. Fig. 2 isa The top F ishung by hinges so that the vertical front section. Fig. 3 is a side vertiwhole canpbe raised, as indicated by the dotcal section, andFig. 4 a detached part. ted lines F in Fig. 3, for the'patient to enter.

My invention relates, first, to the wire-gauze It is also raised for the patient to leave the or perforated floor; second, to the adjustable bath. 'A neck-piece, G, .made of oiled silk or trough; third, to the perforated and adjustother similar fabric, is secured by its margin able seat, foot-,pieceand back, and, fourth, to to an opening in the center of thecover F, sufthe cover and neek-picce. fieiently large to admit freely the head of an The frame is about two feet square and six adult. This neck piece is drawn closely feet high, and covered on all sides with oiled around the neck of the patient whilein the,

cloth or other fabric impermeable toivapor. bath, as seen in Fig. 1, to prevent the escape The panel on the front side is hung by'hingesof the vapor, and at the same time to allow and forms a door through which thepatient the patient to breathe the fresh air. A drip-.. enters. On one side are steps, as seen in Figs. trough, H, is placed just below the hinges of 1 and 2, for the attendant in adjusting thetop the cover,to convey the condensed vapor back and neck piece around the neck of the patient, into. the bath when the cover is raised. a and otherwise administering to his wants. 4 .The trough B can be charged with inedi- The floor of the bath is composed of wirecated liquid or simply with water or spirits gauze or finely-perforated plate A; the object and water, as may be desired by the physician. of which is to disseminate the vapor equally -A thermometer, I, so constructed that the through the chamber above it, and thus bring scale can be in sight while the bulb is inside,

the vapor into contact with all parts of the is attached, so as to indicatethe temperature body equally. A metallic trough or pan, B, of the both when in use.

is placed beneath the'wirc-gauze floor,in which What I claim as my improvement, and deis contained the fluid from which theyapor is sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,.

is cvolved by means of a jet or jets of gas, a Theperforated or wire-gauze floor A and adspirit-lamp, or other means of heating. This justable trough B, in combination with the trough can be withdrawn in front, as seen at perforated adjustable seat 0 and foot-rest C, B in Figs. 1 and 3, in order to change or readj ustablc'back-rest D,and neck piece G, the plenish thcJiqnid.

0 represents a cane-bottom or perforated operated as and for the purpose herein scat,upon which the patient is placed while in specified. the bath. I make use of a perforated seat for the pnrpose of. exposing all parts of the body, and especially the region of the perineiim,to Witnesses:- the direct action of the vapor. A foot-rest, g S is attached to the seat by rods. This is also W. H. BURRIDGE, HENRY VOTH.

several parts being constructed, arranged, and

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