Now that the Great Eastern Railway Co. are delivering Lowestoft Sea Water in kegs at any address in London at the rate of 6d. per 3 gal. it becomes possible to have a genuine salt water bath at a reasonable cost. Even greater facilities than these will be obtained should the proposed aqueduct from Brighton ever become an accomplished fact. Sugg’s “Sabrina” Bath has been designed to enable the salt water to be heated to any temperature. The bottom of the bath consists of circulating tubes sufficiently large to be cleaned out from time to time by means of a wire brush, and thus prevent them from becoming choked by a deposit of salt. The bath should be connected to a flue or a ventilating tube carried through to the outside of bath-room. A burner consisting of a number of luminous flames fixed on a swivel joint swings into its place under the bath. When the salt water has been poured into the bath, the burner is lighted, and the water in the tubes becoming hot rises to the top and is continually displaced by the colder water in the tubes. The circulation thus set up continues freely until the water is heated to the required temperature. Before getting into the bath, care should be taken to see that the temperature of the water is suitable, and the burners turned out. Salt water treated in this way may be used several times.
230. Boiling Stream Therma.
The “Boiling Stream Therma” is an improvement on the Therma patented by Vernon Harcourt in 1882; and by its means a constant supply of water, heated by gas to any degree up to boiling point, may be obtained economically and in the shortest possible time. It can be fixed in a bath-room, kitchen, housemaid’s closet, or any part of a house where hot water may be required at any moment of the day or night. It entirely supersedes the expensive and troublesome hot-water apparatus usually laid on through pipes from the kitchen boiler; and also obviates the necessity of lighting the kitchen fire expressly to prepare hot water. It will furnish 30 gals. of hot water at 105° F. in 15 minutes. It is made by Sugg, Charing Cross.
Sugg’s “Sultan” is a modification of one of Ellis’s bath chambers, fitted with luminous gas flames, governed by a proper regulator, so that no excessive consumption beyond what is required can be produced by any sudden increase of pressure during the time a bath is being taken. The regulating tap enables the bather to reduce the temperature to any degree; the governor maintains the consumption, and consequently the temperature, at the point fixed upon, and ensures that no greater temperature than 200° F. can be produced, even though the regulating tap is turned full on. The foot-warmer is arranged to be heated by gas instead of being filled with hot water, so that a bath can be taken in the early morning, when there is generally no hot water ready. By placing a small vessel of water over the burner, a sufficient quantity of steam can be produced to make a very effective Russian vapour bath. No disagreeable odour comes from this bath, and there are no hurtful products other than carbonic acid in too small a quantity to be injurious. It can, therefore, be used in any bath-room or even in a bedroom without the slightest interference with comfort or health.
INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT.
Acme Heating, [996]
—— ventilating, [991]
Baking Bread, [1003]
Baths, [1008]
Boiling stream therma, [1009]
Bradford’s churns, [1002]
Bread baking, [1003]
Burns, [1002]
Cadogan Gas Fires, [995]
Churns, [1002]
Dairy, [1002]
Deards’s coils, [995]
Eagle Range, [993]
Electric lighting, [1001]
Ewart’s geyser, [1004], [1008]
Fires, [1002]
Gas Fires, [994]
—— governors, [998]
—— maker, [1000]
Geyser, [1004]
Harling’s Sickroom Bell, [1006]
Kitchen Ranges, [1004]
Lightning Geyser, [1008]
Motors, [1003]
Pantry, [1003]
Parson’s grate, [993]
Reflectors, [1000]
Reid’s baths, [1008]
—— water closets, [991]
Rider’s pumping engine, [1008]
Roasting, [1005]
Shaw’s Governors, [998]
—— reflectors, [1000]
Sickroom bell, [1006]
Sight, defective, [1007]
Spectacles, [1007]
Stanley’s heat conductors, [1005]
Strode’s gas fires, [995]
Sugg’s gas fires, [994]
—— specialities, [1001]
—— ventilators, [992]
Sultan Bath, [1009]
Ventilation, [991]
Water Closets, [991]
Westminster kitchener, [1004]