A Lamp Fumigator or a Fumigatory Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Lamp Fumigator or a Fumigatory Apparatus.
I, ALBERT ARTHUR MASCHWITZ of Newhall Hill in the City of Birmingham
Manager to the firm trading as Charles Maschwitz Junior of Newhall Hill afore-
said (a communication to me from Oscar Richter of St. Petersburg in the Empire
of Russia, Manufacturer) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a lamp fumigator, or a fumigatory apparatus, for
cleansing infected apartments or clothes, fumigating rooms with vapour scent, and
also providing rooms with vapour for inhaling purposes.
The said apparatus, consists essentially of a vessel for containing spirit, inter-
mixed with disinfectant or other matters employed as the fumigating material, and
having a neck and mouth, fitted with a depending wick tube, of less diameter than
the throat of the vessel aforesaid.
Near the upper end of the said tube, is a dish shaped shoulder or flange, which
fits socket wise within the mouth of the vessel, and surmounting the said tube,
which extends a little above the top of the vessel, is a gallery or holder, consisting
of three or more upwardly directed wires, with the bases or foot parts of them,
bulged outwardly into shoulders, upon which the lower edge of a perforated
platinum tube comes.
The extreme lower edge of the said tube, when resting upon the shoulders of the
upright wires or gallery, comes within a short distance of the top edge of the wick
tube aforesaid, while the wick extends itself a short distance upwardly into the
platinum tube or cylinder, but without coming in contact with the inside of the
said tube; so that the said platinum tube or cylinder, which is the fumigator, has a
space between its lower edge, and the lower edge of the wick tube, while the wick,
which is between the upright branches of the gallery, lias a space between it, and
the platinum tube or cylinder, which surmounts, as it were, the burner part of the
fumigator.
It most desirable that that part of the wick which extends up the wick tube, and
enters the platinum tube or cylinder, should not touch the sides of the said cylinder,
and moreover,
that the said cylinder should be isolated from the wick tube by the
The vessel is provided with an encircling dome, or hollow stopper, which fits
hermetically over the fittings of the said fumigator.
gallery.
To use the fumigator, place within the vessel, the desired spirit, or pure spirit of
wine, having intermixed with it, oxygen or other disinfectant scent, inhaling
vapour or the like; then light the wick of the fumigator, when the flame heats to
redness the platinum tube or cylinder, then put out the flame by placing the dome
or stopper on the neck of the apparatus. This done, immediately remove the said
stopper, when the platinum tube or cylinder, which has been reduced in temperature
by the momentarily stopping of the combustion, begins to glow with a red heat, and
without flame; now the fumigating commences, by the volatilization of the spirit,
and with it, the oxygen or other matters contained within it.
The extinguishing may be performed by a cylindrical glass or other tube, placed
down the middle of the platinum tube or cylinder, which prevents the volatilized
spirit, and matters employed in the fumigation, coming in contact with the said
platinum tube.
Instead of the glass tube, the glow may be extinguished by the stopper or
dome.
The act of fumicating is consequent upon the spirit saturated wick, having

page_text: between itself, and the lower part of the platinum tube or cylinder, an intervening
air space, through which heat from the said tube conducts itself to the said wick,
and hence the giving off of vapours therefrom, which, on intermingling with air,
and coming in contact with the inside of the upper part of the tube or cylinder,
ignites, and combustion ensues, hence the imparting of the glow to the said tube or
cylinder, and by the radiation of its heat, rapid volatilization of the fumigatory
material, ensues.
The apparatus is particularly applicable to fumigating hospitals, creating fumes
to be inhaled for whooping-cough, asthma, relieving breathing, stimulating generally
the organs for breathing, preventing infection, and dispelling infectious diseases,
purifying air in public buildings, and ridding the same of tobacco smoke, and
odours of every kind.
Dated this 25th day of May 1891.
ALBERT ARTHUR MASCHWITZ.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Lamp Fumigator or a Fumigatory Apparatus.
I, ALBERT ARTHUR MASCHWITZ of Newhall Hill in the City of Birmingham,
Manager to the firm trading as Charles Maschwitz Junior of Newhall Hill afore-
said, (a communication to me from Oscar Richter of St. Petersburg in the Empire
of Russia, Manufacturer,) do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a lamp fumigator, or a fumigatory, or disinfecting
apparatus, for cleansing infected apartments, or clothes; or for fumigating rooms
with vapour, scent and the like, and also providing rooms or apartments with
vapour, for inhaling purposes.
The said apparatus, consists essentially of a vessel adapted to contain spirit or
alcohol, or ether, or the like, and which is intermixed with disinfectant, or other
matter or matters employed as the fumigating, or disinfecting material. The said
vessel which has a neck and mouth, is fitted with a depending wick tube, of a little
less diameter than the throat of the said vessel, aforesaid.
Near the upper end of the tube, is a dish shaped shoulder part or flange, which
fits socket-wise within the mouth of the vessel, and surmounting the said tube,
which extends a little above the top of the vessel, is a gallery or holder, consisting
of three or more upwardly directed wires, with the bases or foot-parts of them,
bulged outwardly into shoulders, upon which the lower edge of a perforated
platinum tube comes.
The extreme lower edge of the said tube, when resting upon the shoulders of the
upright wires or gallery, comes within a short distance of the top edge of the wick-
tube aforesaid, while the wick extends itself a short distance upwardly into the
platinum tube or cylinder, but without coming in contact with the inside of the
said tube; so that the said platinum tube or cylinder, which is the fumigator, has
a space left between its lower edge, and the lower edge of the wick tube, whilst the
wick, which is between the upright branches of the gallery, has a space between it,
and the platinum tube or cylinder, which surmounts as it were the burner part of
the fumigator.
It is most desirable that that part of the wick which extends up the wick tube,
and enters the platinum tube or cylinder, should not touch the sides of the said
cylinder, and moreover, that the said cylinder should be isolated from the wick tube
by the gallery.
The vessel is provided with an encircling dome, or hollow stopper, which fits
hermetically over the fittings of the fumigator.

page_text: To use the fumigator, place within the vessel, the desired spirit, or pure spirit of
vine, having intermixed with it, oxygen, or other fumigating material, disinfectant,
ceni, inhaling vapour, or the like; then light the wick of the fumigator, when the
lane heats to redness the platinum tube or cylinder. After which put out the
lame, by placing the hollow stopper over the mouth, and fittings of the vessel,
which is again immediately removed, when the platinum tube or cylinder, which
as been momentarily reduced in temperature by the stoppage of combustion, begins"
to glow with a red heat, and without flame.
The fumigating now commences, by the volatilization of the alcohol or spirit, and
with it, the oxygen or other matters contained within it.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in elevation a lamp fiumigator,
constructed according to my invention, with the fittings thereof, enclosed, or covered
ap, by a hollow stopper, or cap, fitting accurately upon the outside of the neck of
the vessel.
Figure 2 represents the same with the stopper removed, showing the perforated
platinum tube or cylinder, resting upon gallery-like supports, directed from the top
of the wick-casing, and surrounding the wick in manner that the inside of the said
platinum tube, not in contact with it.
Figure 3 represents a vertical section of the said fumigator.
Figure 4 is a plan of Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of the fumigator fittings."
Figure 6 is a side elevation and plan of the platinum perforated tube or
cylinder.
Figure 7 is a vertical section of the said fumigating lamp Figure 1 with the
stopper..
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
a is a bottle or vessel, with the neck a², and mouth a³,
hollow stopper b..
upon
which is fitted a
e is a wick casing, surrounded at its middle part, by a cup shaped flange e, which
when in position; rests upon the lip of the mouth of the vessel, and also fits socket-
wise within the said mouth.
Disposed at the summit of the said wick-casing, wherethrough the wick d, passes,
is a gallery, consisting of upwardly directed branches, or arms, with shoulders
upon which a perforated platinum tube or cylinder e, rests.
The upper end of the wick d, extends itself to a short distance up the interior
of the lower part of the said platinum tube or cylinder, but without touching the
inside of the said tube, hence an annular space e*.
Now assuming the vessel a, to be filled, or partially filled with alcohol or spirit,
having incorporated, or intermixed with it, the desired fumigating material, such
for example as oxygen, and assuming also, that the upper part of the wick is
saturated, with the said spirit, then light the wick, and by it, heat the platinum
tube or cylinder, and then put out the Hame, thus kindled, by covering up the said
wick and fittings of the fumigator, with the hollow stopper, as represented, in
Figures 1 and 7.
The then immediate removal of the said stopper, leaves the platinum tube or
cylinder, still heated, but reduced in temperature, which again rises by the
volatilized spirit coming in contact with the platinum tube, which acting by
oxidation, becomes heated to redness, and remains so, so long as any spirit remains
in the wick, or within the vessel, hence fumigation.
Thus, after the platinum tube has been heated, the heat of it acting by radiation,
volatilizes the spirit in the wick surrounding it, and the vapour evolved coming in
contact with the platinum tube or cylinder, by passing up its middle, heat ensues,
which is due to the action of oxidation which increases in activity, until the said
tube or cylinder, is heated to redness.
By perforating, the metal of the said tube or cylinder, a larger surface to the

page_text: action of the vapour or gascous products evolved, is made; and proportionately.
more action.
The fumigating material incorporated with the spirit, is volatilized with it, and
given off in the state, in which it is required.
The apparatus is particularly applicable to fumigating hospitals, creating fumes
to be inhaled for whooping-cough, asthma, relieving breathing, stimulating generally
the organs for breathing, preventing infection and dispelling infectious diseases,
purifying air in public buildings, and ridding the same of tobacco smoke, and
odours of every kind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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First In a fumigating or disinfecting apparatus, employing in connection with
a spirit lamp, or an evaporable spirit apparatus, (as described) containing
fumigating, or disinfecting materials, platinum, upon which the volatilized spirit is
brought in contact, impinges, substantially as set forth.
Secondly-A fumigator, or disinfector, consisting of, an erect platinum tube or
cylinder, or a perforated platinum tube or cylinder, mounted edgewise upon a
gallery or holder, directed from the top of the wick casing or its equivalent and
with the upper part of the wick, which hangs in a spirit vessel containing the
fumigating, or disinfecting material, entering the lower end of the said platinum
tube, or cylinder without touching the sides of the same, substantially as described
and set forth.
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Thirdly In a fumigator, or disinfector, the construction, and arrangement of
the parts of the apparatus, substantially as described and set forth.
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A. A. MASCHWITZ.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Agent for Applicaut.
A. A. MASCHWITZ.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Agent for Applicaut.