Improvements in Atomizers, Sprays, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Atomizers, Sprays, and the like.
CLARENCE FENTON SLATER 20 Baker Street London W. Pharmaceutica! Accessories
and Electrical Apparatus Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to atomizers or sprays & is designed to obviate the great
difficulty experienced in cleansing these apparatus & to provide a new means for
preventing displacement of the parts at & about the immediato vicinity of the point
of atomization. My invention consists in a metal or other mount which I make to fit
or screw upon the neck of a glass, or other, bottle & which carries on its surface a
collar, screwed, to engage with a nozzle throat funnel or the like. I next employ
a small metal or other block which I fix by means of a screw, or stud from the
under surface of the mount in the centre of said collar.
I then make in said block a drilling for the purpose of conducting wind from a
generative source. A second drilling No. 2 Fig. 1 is made in a parallel plain with
the first drilling and if necessary directing it at any required augle. A third and
conical drilling is made passing from the surface directly through the second
mentioned drilling and into the first mentioned drilling and is for the purpose of
emitting the solution in the form of a spray.
I next employ a small tube shaped at its free end to engage with the soft rubber
tube of an air generating apparatus, which I place through a perforation in the
collar of mount and screw into the first mentioned drilling in the block. I then
screw into the second drilling in said block a small tube bent at a convenient angle
which I place through a perforation in said mount and which extends down into
the bottle.
CLARENCE FENTON SLATER of 20 Baker Street London W. Pharmaceutical
Accessories & Electrical Apparatus Manufacturer 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 is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and is shown in section
and in enlarged dimensions and relates to atomizers or apparatus used for diffusing
or delivering liquids in the form of atoms or vapour.

page_text: In atomizers as at present constructed the fine tubes or tapered parts which
hitherto have been almost universally employed for the purpose of atomizing
solutions are more or less defective in that they so readily become damaged or
clogged. In order to overcome this defect and to provide a new means for preventing
displacement of the parts & also to provide a ready means for cleansing I first
employ a metal or other block Fig. 1 which may be of any convenient shape or
size but in order to illustrate my invention I represent it square in general configura-
tion but the edges rounded on one side which in my drawing is shown at top.
I next make in said block a drilling as showu at A Fig. 1, for the purpose of
conducting wind from a generating source; this drilling may pass right through
the block and be plugged at D (as shown by the dotted lines) but in my drawing
(Fig. 2) it is shown part way through only. A second dilling B I make in a parallel
plain with the aforesaid drilling A and crossing it at some point, this drilling may
also pass through the block & be plugged at N as shown by the dotted lines. At
the point C a third drilling E is made passing from the surface (on top of the block)
directly through the aforesaid drilling B into the aforesaid drilling A and is for the
purpose of emitting the solution in the form of a spray.
I next employ a metal or other mount E Fig. 2 which I make to screw or fit on
to a bottle or other receptacle for containing solutions and which carries on its
surface a collar F Fig. 2 screwed to engage with a nozzle M, throat-funnel or the
like. I next fix said block Fig. 1 to the mount E Fig. 2 by means of a screw or
stud G Fig. 2.
At the drilling A Fig. 1 I screw or fix into the aforesaid block a metal or
other tube K Fig. 2. which passes through the collar F Fig. 2 and carries on its free
end a mount for engaging with the soft rubber tube of an air generating apparatus.
At the drilling B Fig. 1 I screw or fit into the aforesaid block a small metal or
other tube H Fig. 2 which I bend down and cause to pass through a perforation L
in the mount E Fig. 2 and is for the purpose of conducting the solution to the point
of atomization.
In order that the atomizer may be used for nasal use I employ a metal vulcanite
or other nozzle which I make to screw or fit the collar F Fig. 2 aforesaid.
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 :-
1. In atomizers sprays or apparatus for diffusing or delivering liquids in the form
of atoms, vapour or a cloud the drillings of metal or other material at and about the
vicinity of the point of atomization.
2. The drilling of metal or other material at and about the vicinity of the point
of atomization and the construction of the atomizer substantially as above
described.