The J.B.L. Cascade Internal Bath (JBL Bag)

No, I can’t tell you where to buy one! The product is dead, unless someone follows Klystra’s example and resurrects it yet again. However, I thought it might interest some people to read the original patent in which it is described.

The J.B.L. Cascade was marketed by Dr Charles A. Tyrrell, a quack despite his prefix, who advertised it as the cure for every conceivable ill and the key to good health. He also claimed to be its inventor — but he was no such thing. The Patent names as inventor one Henry M. Guild, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who it appears died before the patent was granted (19 April 1904). Guild’s executor Norman J. Maxwell assigned the patent to Charles A. Tyrrell, of New York.

And the patent itself: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US757654.pdf

This is ashame. My JBL has sprung a leak at the hanging up hole, so I must sit on an upside down pail in a bathtub to use it and I fold over the hanging tab to slow the leak. I would surely like to buy one of the newer ones that Klystra had shown without a hanging tab. And it seems that I CAN take more water from it than a conventional hanging bag, laying down.

Jimmy, the fix that Ron Tyler came up with was a small stainless steel bolt, two large stainless steel washers, and a stainless steel acorn nut. Works pretty well.

Doc

That was the same fix Klystra came up with for the JBL before they got the ones with not hole in tab. The only thing different I would do, would be to give a squirt of silicone before clamping down on the washers. It worked for mine. Glad the last one didn't have the hole in tab.

I also make sure to never pick a JBL up by the hanging tab, instead using both hands under it.

Dan

For some reason this type of bag never appealed to me. I guess I like watching the full bag as it slowly fills my colon.

I always thought my weight would make a sit down bag explode. I'll stick to using gravity in another way.

I guess being a designer, I'm just naturally very visual, and seeing a bulging enema bag hanging on an IV stand, ready for use, is such a HUGE turn on for me!!!

My JBL bags all came with a brass screw on cap that could be used to replace the nozzle; and use as a regular Enema bag with tubing instead of the blank stopper. It would be for those who like to see a really full bag. I would lay it somewhere or support it other than with the tab if using it this way.

Dan