Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath.

  • Timmins, Thomas.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ProvisionaP^ Specification. A.D. 1862.—N 114. Timmins ^ Simmons’ Improved Bath, extreme cases as a bed, which may be very desirable in administering to an invalid a hot air or vapour bath, the bath being discontinued at pleasure by. removing the means by which the hot air or vapour is generated. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 5 by the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th July 1862. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Thomas Timmins, General Caster, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and Thomas Simmons, Doctor of Medicine, also of Birmingham, aforesaid, send 10 greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant 15 unto us, the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons, Her special license that we, the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ to after during the 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 “An Impeoved Bath combinino in itself the Advantages of the Hot Aie oe Tuekish Bath, WITH THE Vapoue, Slippee, Hot AND CoLD Watee Showee Bath,” upon the 25 condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons, by an instrument in writing under our 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 andi., 30 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Timmins and Thomas Simmons, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :— 35 Our Invention of a combination bath consists in so constructing such baths^