US1432916A - Bathtub - Google Patents

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E. F. SCHWARTZ.

BATHTUB.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28,1918.

1,432,916, Patented 0ct.24,1922.

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' BATHTUB.

Application filed June 28, 1918. Serial No. 242,349.

To all whom it may concern: This swell 4 projects at the front of the Be it known that EMMA F. SCHWARTZ, tub and is provided with a shallow rounded I citizen of the United States, residing at cavity or recess 6 in its top which Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and opens into the interior of the tub and 5 State of Ohio, has invented certain new slopes downwardly in the same direction to 45 and useful Improvements in Bathtubs, of drain into the tub. The cavity is preferwhich the following is a specification. ably of semi-circular shape and rounded in This invention relates to an improvemeut all of its surfaces to make a comfortable and in bath tubs, the object being to provide a secure seat which may be occupied With 10 recessed seat in the wall of the tub in a safety under bathing conditions, and while [)0 plane beneath the top thereof, whereby an the depth of the seat is such that it lies individual may be comfortably and securely mainly beneath the top surface of the tub seated above the water line and bathe and it is shallow enough to permit the occupant wash from this elevated position in drainage to turn therein and face either the inside relation to'the interior of the tub. The seat or outside of the tub. One end wall of the is also extended forwardly at the front of tub is also provided with a rounded depresthe tub and located midway of the ends sion or cavity 7 at the upper edge thereof, thereof, thereby permitting the occupant to which is of a size and shape to admit and move and work freely and without being hold the neck of a person reclining in the 20 crowded in the otherwise narrowed portion tub. A recessed head rest 8 is also provided of the tub. The occupant is also within easy opposite the neck cavity 7 and this head rest reach of the faucets or valves which control may be slightly inclined and projected upthe intake of water, and the extended seat wardly more or less above the roll or top permits. the user of the tub to enter and border of the tub.

25 leave the tub while in a sitting position, that What I claim is: is, he may face either way and turn while A bath tub having greater length than seated. This side seat is also of advantage width and provided with a vertical front where an attendant must work outside of wall having a shallow concaved seat of semithe tub, as in bathing children or invalids. circular outline formed integrally with. its

30 In the accompanying drawing, F ig, l is upper edge and protruding to the front side a perspective view of a tub embodying my thereof intermediate the ends of said tub invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. and adapted to permit a person to sit upon 3 atransverse section, ofthe tub. said seat and to turn in either direction a The tub 2 may be made of porcelain or thereon and face either'the rear or front side 35 metal and built with or without feet, and of the tub.'

the walls of the tub may be wrought into Signed at Cleveland, in the county of diiferent shapes and designs. However, and Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, this 29th da preferably one side Wall 3 of the tub is made of May, 1918. y with a swell or extension 4 at its middle in-

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