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A. E. KENNEY.

OUH'IAINLESS sa'owna BATH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27. I915.

Reissued May 4, 1915.

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ASSIGNMENTS, 'IO BEDDAN SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.,

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I Specification of ieialued Letters Patent. Reisgued M y 4 1915 Original Iii-1,054,888, dated larch 4, 1918, Serial Io. 882,771. Reissue 10.18377, dated February 8,

1915, lerlal Io. 879,601. This application for reissue filed larch 87, 1915. Serial No. 17,349.

Toall'whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, ANDREW E. Kmzmar, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of North .Plainfield, in thecountypf Somerset and State of New Jersey, have mvented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtainless Shower-Baths, of which the following is a specification.

The present invent on relates generally to shower baths, and has more particularly reference to means whereby an ordinary bath tub can be converted into a shower bath without necessitating the use of a ourtain to prevent splashing of the water outside the tub. I

Heretofore it has been customary to conduct'the water to a sprinkler head above the tub and to discharge the ray downwardly in a substantially vertic direction inside a curtain. 1 v

The object of my invention is to provide shower means whereby the unsightly and unsanitary curtain may be eliminated, and

which maybe readily attached to or detached from the fixtures of; standard bath tubs, or which may remain in least partiall without disfiguring the appearance of t e'tub.

I have found that balanced streams from shower heads provided with a plurality of fine opemngs having their axes arranged on converging lines s so that the streams will be directed toward each other in a general horizontal and somewhat downwar ly inclined direction from a point in a'plane above the walls of the tub but without entirely crossing the tub laterally or extending longitudinally beyond the end of .the tub, all of the water will fall wholly within the confines of the tub wlthout splashing outside thereof even when the shower is in use. h

Accordingly invention consists,

broadly, in means for directing two or more of water in the above described manner.

In the particular form herein disclosed, two shower heads are arranged on opposite sides of the median line of the tub, at one end thereof and above the plane of the walls of the tub, and so disposed as to direct the streams in an inwardly and somewhat downwardly inclined direction.

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by directing two evenly Other features will ap r as the, ecification proceeds. pea 'In the accomanying drawings the inven- 1011 1s disclose in a concrete and preferred orm.

Changes may of course be made without departing from the legitimate and intended scope of the invention as expressed in the accompanying claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a lan view of the invention in its preferre embodiment, showing it in actual use in an ordinary tub. Fig. 2 1s a side elevation of the same with the walls'of the tub broken away to show a preferred method of attaching the device to the tub. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view on the line 3-3 of Fi 2.

Like reference characters re er to correspending parts in the several views.

1 indicates a tub of the usual construction" preferably of a greater length than width,

- provided at oneend with a cold water faucet -2 and a hot water faucet 3, together with an inlet spigot 4 common to both ina well known manner. For the sakev of convenience, 1t Wlll be understood that the water supply willbe obtained from the faucets of the to but it is equally clear that the supply of water may be obtained from any other source that'may be available.

5 is a hollow upright column, in the present instance earned by a supporting bar 6 which rests upon the two faucets'2 and 3 and bridges the space therebetween.

7 is a clamping bar adapted to engage underneath the faucets 2 and-3 and to support vthe u right column 5 properly in position.

Suita le means for clam ing the bars 6 and -7 to the faucets may ta e the 'form of the bolts 8 and nuts 9. I

10 indicates two nozzles disposed in a plane above the walls of the tub and located at one end of the tub and at opposite sides of the median line of the longitudinal axis thereof, as shown in the drawings. These two nozzles 10 .are disposed so as to direct the streams of water in a general horizontal direction on slightly converging lines and on somewhatdownwardly inclined lines. In the disclosure herermade these two nozzles take theform of shower heads, as shown, which are disposed at an angle toward each other, and in the present instance these I shower heads also inclined somewhat a downward direction. The two shower heads are of greater cross-sectional area,

' than the sup ly pipes 11 leading thereto The supp nect by means of the supply pipes 13 to-the column 5. The column 5 is in communication with a source of water supply here taking the form of the ordinary inlet spigot 4 of the tub by means of the flexible connec- 7 tion 14. In order to separate the parts easily, the column 5 is composed of two pipe coupling 18;

sections 15 and 16 securedtogether by means of the coupling 17 which carries the lateral supply pipes 13. 5 At' the top of the pipe section 16 there is another coupling 18.-which connects the said ipe sectionlfi with the supply pipes 11.

he pipe sections 15 and 16 are threaded exteriorly so as to engage in interior threads in the coupling 17, and the pipe section 16 is further threaded so as to engage with interior threads in the this manner the attachment may be readily dismantled. If desired, the pipe section 15; may likewise be in threaded engagement with the cla'mpingbar 6.

It will be understood-that when the water is turned on, two evenly balanced strains will issue from the nozzles 10." These streams of water are projected in a general hori- ,zontal direction on converging lines and in a somewhat inclined direction at a point above the walls of the tub so that both will fall wholly within the tub when the water is flowing but the shower is not in use andwill not produce any splash outside of the tub when the shower is in use. The same effect is produced by the lower streams issuing from the nozzles 12. In the illustrations the streams are shown as they would appear at low pressure or when the water is turned on only partially, but it will be understood that with higher pressure and .with the water turned on as fully as required, the same principle of operation will hold true and the streams will, on account of the particular disposition of the nozzles, fall wholly within the tub.

Another feature of the invention which is of considerable importance is in placing the nozzles of the upper pair (in the case in which two or more sets or pairs of-nozzles are employed) ofl'set from the vertical plane of. the lower pair or pairs so'that'any dripping from the upper nozzles will not strike upon the lower nozzles. In the present embodiment the u per nozzles are offset from the lower nozz es'by spacing them-closer together, aSaWill he in the plan view.

But it will be understood that. the same obsuch as the different sizes and stylesof tubs, different water pressures, etc. It may stated as a general rule, howe ver, that the angle of downward slant will be between the horizontal and a line sixty degrees from the horizontal, and the inward inclination or angle of convergence will be between a line parallel I tothe thetub. and a line extending at forty-five degrees to such parallel line.

In" the, use, of the ordinary overhead shower the water will not usually fall or splash outside of the tub when the wateris flowing without the bather bein in position but when the bather is under t e shower a ongitudinal median line of considerable amount of water splashes ofi the body onto the floor and walls of the room and therefore it is customary in practice to provide a depending curtain to surround the bather while the bath is bein taken. These curtains are unsanitary and interfere with the use of the tub for nonshower bathin purposes and are otherwise objectionable rom the point of view of expense as well as use.

By the arrangement of the streams in accordance with my; invention, 1 am able to dispense with the curtain entirely because the water will not fall outside of the tub either when the bath is being taken or when the water is flowing freely into the tub. I What is claimed, is:

1. In a shower bath, the combination with a tub, of a pair of nozzles located in sub-- stantially the same horizontal plane and at a point above the rim of the tub, a second pair of nozzles located above the first pair in substantially the samelhorizontal plane, each pair of nozzles disposed to direct'their streams on converging and downwardly inclined lines whereby the streams from all the nozzles will fall within the confines of the tub, and means for supplying water to the nozzles.

2. In a shower bath, the combination with a tub having hot and cold water faucets, a supporting bar resting upon and bridging the space between the two faucets, aclamping bar engaging beneath the two faucets, I

means for forcing the two bars together to clamp them upon the faucets, a hollow up right column rising from the supporting bar; laterally extending arms carried by the colunm, nozzles carried by said arms disposed to direct their streams onconverging and downwardly inclined lines so that the the secon nected to said water sup streams shall fall within the confines of the I tub, and a water supply connection between the faucets and the upright column.

3. In a shower bath, the combination with a tub, of a pair of nozzles arranged in spaced relation and disposed to direct their streams onconverging lines downwardly inclined into thetub so that such streams shall fall wholly within the confines of the tub, a second 'pair of nozzles located above the first pair and disposed to direct their streams on convergmg and downwardly inclined lines so as to fall wholl within the confines of the tub,

d pair of nozzles being also disposed in s aced relation but offset from the vertical p ane of the lower pair to prevent drippings from the upper pair of nozzles from falling on the lowerpair of nozzles and being'splashed by such contact.

4. In a shower bath, the combination with a bath tub provided with a hot and cold water supplyat one end thereof, of a shower comprising an upright pipe detachably congroups of relatively small outlets at a out the same level on either side of said pi e and in communication therewith, each 0 said groups of outlets being in a lane approximating to the vertical but with the plane of the group on one side of the pipe meeting the plane of the group on the other side of the ipe at an obtuse'angle so that the streams 0? water from said groups of outlets will be directed lengthwise of the tub but will converge within the limits of the tub.

5. In a shower bath, the combination with a tub provided with a faucet, of a portable shower detachably secured to the faucet and supported thereby comprising an upright pipe provided with a plurality of fine outlets, said outlets being arranged in groups in an approximately horizontal plane to discharge a plurality of fine streams directed at an an Is to each other whereby the streams wi l converge above the level of the tub and approximately above the median line thereof to form substantiall a single large stream and fall wholly within the tub, and means for supplying water to said pipe and outlets.

6. In a shower bath, the combination with a faucet, of an upright pipe communicating with said faucet and provided with a plurality of relatively small outlets'above the level of the tub, said outlets being arranged in groups to .deliver approximately ual quantities of water in relatively distinct streams, the axis of each group being arranged to intersect the vertical plane coincident with the median line of the tub and intermediate the ends thereof so that the streams of water delivered from each group of outlets will commingle above the tub to form substantially a single stream and the water will fall .wholly within the confines of the tub, and means for supplying water to said faucet. v

Signed at New Yg-k city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 19th day of Nov. A. D. 1914.

, ANDREW E. KENNEY.

Witnesses:

GRAEFF MILLER, MARGARET KELLEY.

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