US1135764A - Bath-house. - Google Patents

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R. F. CASEY.

BATH HOUSE. APPLICATlOH FILED FEB- s. 1915.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

ATTORNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS ca, PHOTOLITHQ. WASHINGTON, D. C

RICHARD F. CASEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BATH-HOUSE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, EH5.

Application filed February 6, 1915. Serial No. 6,500.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD F. CAsEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bath-House, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved bathhouse more especially designed for use on rivers, bays and other waterways and arranged to provide a basin adapted to float independently of the bathhouse structure and the platform adjacent the basin to protect the latter against heavy swells and waves and thus allow of keeping the basin watertight.

In order to accomplish the desired result use is made of a well surrounded by a platform and having a skeleton or slatted bottom for the surrounding water to pass into the well, and a basin freely fioatable in the said well and access to which is had over the said platform.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the bathhouse with parts shown in section; and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In cities like New York, for instance, which are surrounded or are built adjacent to more or less polluted rivers or other waterways and in which public and private bathhouses are located on the waterway, it has been found advisable for sanitary reasons to prohibit the use of basins opening into the waterway to prevent the polluted water from being used for bathing purposes. In consequence of this prohibition the bathhouses must be provided with basins closed at the bottom and sides and which are filled with pure water, which is emptied from time to time and replaced with pure water. The bathhouses float on the waterway and are usually moored to a pier and hence are subjected to very severe pounding induced by the wash of passing vessels, storms and other causes, and hence the bot tom seams of the large closed basins readily open and allow the polluted water from the waterway to seep into the basin and thus pollute the water contained therein, rendering it unfit for bathing purposes. lVith the improvements presently described in detail the basin is protected against disturbances of the water in the waterway and its seams are not liable to open.

The bathhouse structure consists essentially of a platform or a floor A floatably supported in the waterway by pontoons B, preferably arranged underneath the platform on opposite sides. On the top of the platform A is built a one or two story structure containing the usual cabins or dressing rooms 0 leaving an open gallery on the inner portion of the platform adjacent the well D, the walls D of which are attached to the inner edge of the platform A. The bottom of the well D is formed of slats E to allow the water of the waterway to pass into the well D, and in this well D extends a basin F having a slatted bottom and sides and adapted to be filled with pure water by the use of a pump G connected with a suitable source of water supply other than that of the waterway. The faces of the walls D of the well D are provided with vertically disposed spaced rubbing pieces D for rubbing contact with the outer faces of the basin F which latter floats independently of the platform A and the object supported thereby. The basin F is provided with steps H to permit the bathers to conveniently pass from the platform A into the basin or out of the same. By the arrangement described, the basin F is protected against pounding such as is induced by the wash of passing vessels, waves and the like, and hence the basin F can be readily maintained in a water-tight condition.

In practice, the slats E extend beyond the opposite walls D of the well D and under the pontoons B so as to support the same, the slats having their terminals attached to sides I depending from the outer edges of the platform A adjacent the pontoons B. Slats E also extend under the bathhouse structure from one side I to the other, and the walls D adjacent the inner sides of the pontoons B are extended under the platform to the outer side edges thereof, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1.

In order to regulate the relative floating ability of the bathhouse structure and the basin F, the pontoons B are filled with more or less water so as to allow the bathhouse structure to sink a desired distance in the water with a view to allow the basin F to fioat in the water above the open or slatted bottom of the well D. For this purpose the pontoons B are provided with water inlet openings at the bottom, and the top of each pontoon is connected by a branch pipe J with a pipe K connected with an air compressor L mounted on the bathhouse structure to allow of pumping air into the pontoon B with a view to allow the water to rise therein only to a desired predetermined depth. Thus by the arrangement described the bathhouse structure may be allowed to float higher or lower in the water according to the amount of water desired in the basin F to hold the latter normally out of contact with the open bottom of the well D. Air may be allowed to escape from any one of the pontoons B by the use of a suitable plug N in the top of the corresponding pontoon, as indicated in Fig. 1.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by the arrangement described the basin F may be filled with water to any desired depth and the bathhouse structure may be allowed to float a desired depth in the waterway so that the top edge of the basin F is practically at a level with the platform A and the bottom of the basin F is above the slats E forming the bottom of the well D.

The pontoons B may be filled with water or partly or wholly emptied by the means usually employed, that is, by using a hand pump and a plug for closing or opening the hole B. When the plug is removed the pontoon fills with water to a desired depth, after which the plug is replaced. If it is desired toempty the pontoon of some or all of the water use is made of an ordinary hand suction pump inserted through a capped hand hole B for pumping the water out of the pontoon.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A bathhouse, comprising a well surrounded by a platform and having a skeleton bottom, and a basin freely floatable in the said well and access to which is had over the said platform.

2. A bathhouse, comprising a bathhouse structure fioatable in a waterway and provided with a well having a slatted bottom for the entrance of the water from the waterway, and a basin fitting into and floatable in the said Well independent of the said bathhouse structure.

3. In a bathhouse, the combination of a bathhouse structure fioatable in a waterway and provided with a well having a slatted bottom, a platform surrounding the said well, and a basin fitting into the said well and having a depth corresponding approximately to that of the said well.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for 4-. In a bathhouse, the combination of a bathhouse structure fioatable in a waterway and provided with a well having a slatted bottom, a platform surrounding the said well, a basin fitting into the said well and having a depth corresponding approximately to that of the said well, and steps in the said basin and leading to the said platform.

5. A bathhouse, comprising a bathhouse structure floatable in a waterway and provided with a well having a slatted bottom for the entrance of the water from the waterway, a basin fitting into and fioatable in the said well independent of the said bathhouse structure, and means mounted on the said structure for filling and emptying the said basin.

6. In a bathhouse, the combination of a bathhouse structure flotable in a waterway and provided with a well having a slatted bottom, a platform surrounding the said well, vertically disposed spaced rubbing pieces on the inner faces of the walls of the well, and a basin fitting into the said well and having its outer walls adapted to rub on the said rubbing pieces, the said basin being fioatable independent of the bathhouse structure.

7. A bathhouse, comprising a platform, a well attached to the said platform and surrounded by the same, pontoons floatably supporting the said platform, and a basin fioatable in water in the said well independent of the said platform.

8. A bathhouse, comprising a platform, a well attached to the said platform and surrounded by the same, pontoons floatably supporting the said platform, a basin floatable in water in the said well independent of the said platform, and means for filling the said pontoons with a desired amount of water to regulate the floating heights of the platform relative to that of the basin.

9. A bathhouse, comprising a platform, a well attached to the said platform and surrounded by the same, pontoons fioatably supporting the said platform, a basin floatable in water in the said well independent of the said platform, means for filling the said pontoons with a desired amount of water to regulate the floating heights of the platform relative to that of the basin, and means forfilling the basin with water to a desired height.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD F. CASEY.

z five cents each, by addressing the C'ommissioner of Patent f, Washington, D. 0.

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