AN IMPROVED CUPPING APPARATUS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Celse Eugène Capron, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CUPPING APPARATUS."
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Sealed the 26th February 1856; and dated the 27th. August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Celse Eugène Capron at
"the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th August 1855.
I, CELSE EUGÈNE CAPRON, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, & 39,
Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CUPPING APPARATUS"
to be as follows, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the mode of constructing cupping apparatus for
obtaining non-intermittent suction. In Figures 1 & 2, A represents a caout-
chouc ball; B, the sucking or exhaust valve, placed at the top of the
caoutchouc ball,.& the forcing valve B' at the lower internal part of the ball';
C, C, represents stop-cocks, adapted to the caoutchouc ball; D, D¹, D", D,
4.

page_text: Figures 2, 3, 4, & 5, represent bell & other glasses of different forms & sizes.
Figure 3 represents an apparatus fitting the caoutchouc ball, composed of
several bell glasses, & serving to cup several places at once.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Celse Eugène Capron in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CELSE
EUGÈNE CAPRON, of 4, South Street; Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue le
l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs.and.successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Celse Eugène Capron, Her special license that I, the said Celse Eugene
Capron, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Celse Eugène Capron, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great. Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED CUPPING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Celse Eugène Capron, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Celse Eugène Capron, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of an apparatus, as represented in the annexed
Drawings, in the lower part of which a partial vacuum is produced by means
of a vulcanised india-rubber ball, in connection with suitable valves, which
apparatus forms a substitute for the ordinary cupping. glass. It may be

page_text: employed also for withdrawing the milk: from: the breast, and can. be used as
an artificial leech in the form represented in Figure 7..
Figure 1 is an. elevation of the apparatus; Figures 2 and 3 are valves;
Figure 4 is a modification of the apparatus; Figures 5 and 6 shew the form
of the valves employed; and Figure 7, is used. as a substitute for the leech.
A, Figure 1, is a strong vulcanised india-rubber ball, firmly cemented or
otherwise secured to the brass caps or fittings B, B'. In these caps are screwed
the valves C, C', shewn full size in Figures 2 and 3, each opening upwards,
allowing the air to pass through a small hole made in them. At the lower
part of the brass cap B is fitted a stop-cock D; for regulating the partial
vacuum in the cup F, composed of glass or other suitable material, cemented
to the brass cap. G. This cap is also furnished with a valve of the same con-
struction as before described.
...
Figure 4 is a modification of the apparatus. It consists of a vulcanised
india-rubber ball A, fitted. to the brass cap B¹, as in the former case. The
exhaust valves C, instead of being placed at top and bottom, are both fixed to
the lower cap B'. The stop-cock and cup are of the same construction as those
of Figure 1. The air exhausted from the cup F passes through the small holes
in the top of the valves C, represented by dotted lines in Figures 5 and 6, and
in Figure 1 out of the small hole H in the top of the cover I. J, Figure 7,
represents a glass tube secured to a brass cap K, provided with a stop-cock L.
The conical tube M is fitted in the brass cap B' of the india-rubber ball.
This form of the apparatus is used in the same manuer as those before
described, and is employed as a substitute for the leech.
When the above apparatus are required to be used for drawing blood, the
cup or tube is placed firmly over the part to be operated upon, incisions in the
flesh having been previously made. The stop-cock D is opened, and by com-
pressing the india-rubber ball A, the air contained in it is forced out through
the valve C and the hole H, Figures 1 and 4. The ball in expanding. by its
elasticity withdraws the air from the cup F or tube J, thus forming a partial
vacuum. This operation being repeated until the requisite pressure on the
part is obtained, the stop-cock D is closed. When a sufficient quantity of blood
has been cupped the apparatus is removed, by lifting the cup so as to allow the
air to enter. The employment of the above improved apparatus renders the
operation of cupping simple, more expeditious, and effective.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein laid down; but what I claim is, the

page_text: construction of cupping apparatus, in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described, and represented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Celse Eugène Capron, have hereunto set
hand and seal; this Twenty-first day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six..
my
Witness,
J. W. F. MENNONS.
C. E. CAPRON. (L.S.)