Specification of David Jones : generating vapours for inhalation, &c.

  • Jones, David.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of David Jones : generating vapours for inhalation, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Generating Vapours for Inhalation, &c. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th. October 1871. I, David Jones, of Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, do 5 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus eor Generating Vapours for Inhalation and for Applying Heat, Steam, or Vapours to the Human Body, or to the Bodies of Horses or other Animals,” to be as follows:— The first part of this Invention relates to improvements in the 10 arrangement and construction of apparatus for generating vapours for medicinal or curative porposes, so that the same may be more advan¬ tageously and conveniently employed for such purposes than heretofore. Eor this purpose by preference I employ a portable boiler which may be heated either by gas (preferably by a Bunsen burner) or by a spirit lamp 15 or otherwise. The boiler is provided with a safety valve, water gauge, thermometer, and with inlet and outlet passages furnished with stop¬ cocks. The fluids or medicinal matters from which vapours are to be generated, are introduced into the boiler and the heat is raised to the