An Appliance for Breathing or Inhaling Air.
Year: 1892

page_text: · Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1892-Accepted. 31st Dec.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Breathing or Inhaling Air.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RHODES, of 5 Lime Grove, Longsight, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to an appliance composed of a tube or mouth piece, closed
by a metal or other cap, perforated with small holes; the chamber between the
mouth piece and the cap is filled with camphor or other suitable substance or
combination of substances.
When the appliance is held in the mouth the wearer breathes through the mouth
piece and thereby draws air through the camphor or other compound into the
lungs.
The appliance may be used with advantage either in or out of doors by all
persons of both sexes whether young or old who have weak chests or delicate
throats.
Dated this 3rd dor of March 1802
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Breathing or Inhaling Air.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RHODES, of 5 Lime Grove, Longsight Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
.
My invention relates to an appliance composed of a tube or mouth piece, closed
by a metal or other cap, perforated with small holes; the chamber between the
mouth piece and the cap is filled with camphor or other suitable substance or
combination of substances.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 an end view and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of
an appliance made according to my invention,
Fig. 4 is a section and Fig. 5 an inside view of the cap.
Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 are similar views respectively to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and
illustrate a slightly modified construction of appliance.
In these views, a designates the tube or mouth piece with a chamher a',
the metal or cap which screws upon said mouth piece and serves to retain camphor
or other substance in the chamber a'; the cap has holes & in it in each construction
illustrated, and in the appliance illustrated by Figs. 6 to 9 the mouth piece a is
also shown furnished with holes a².
When the appliance is held in the mouth the wearer breathes through the mouth
piece a,
and thereby draws in air through the perforations b, or through &¹ and a
as the case may be, and through the camphor or other compound in the chamber a¹
and so into the lungs.
The appliance may be used with advantage either within or out of doors by all
persons of both sexes whether young or old who have weak chests or delicate
throats

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
An appliance for inhaling medicated air consisting of a tube or mouth piece
formed with a chamber for camphor or other medicinal substance and a perforated
cap substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 15th day of November 1892.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.