Improvements in or relating to Nasal Hygienic Apparatus.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
Improvements in or relating to Nasal Hygienic Apparatus.
A communication from THEODORE LOUIS DE BRUYN SEGERS, of Rozendaal, in
the Kingdom of Holland, Commercial Tiaveller.
I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holbora in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 —
This invention relates to nasal hygiene apparatus or devices, by which not only
is the access to the nose of injurious or unpleasantly smelling gases, emanations, or
exhalations provented, but by which also some beneficial effect is produced for
the purpose of rendering such emanations or exhalations innoenous. The device 18
not so much applicable to dangerous or noxious trades, as intended for use in
hospitals, sick-100ms etc.
The device or apparatus consists substantially of two stopper-shaped receivers a a¹
Fige. 1 to 4 for hygienic or disinfectant material which receivers, by means of an
elastic strip or connecting-piece Care joined together to form a whole, which may
be worn not on the nose, but as a pince-nez with the receptacles inserted in the
nostrils. The receivers a and a' are provided with stoppers b which are either
loose, as shown in Fig. 1, or are affixed to the intermediate joint-piece C as shown
in Fig. 2 (and in g. 4 which is a plan of Fig. 2); in the latter case, the
fastening to the piece C of the receivers for the disinfecting or hygienic material is
effected by the engagement of the stoppers with the receptacles or receivers.
The walls of the receivers are perforated, in order to allow of the protective
exhalations given off by the hygienic material escaping into the nasal interior and
passages.
Solid as well as fluid substances may be used for this purpose; in the latter
case the perforations are specially arranged so that leakage of the fluid 18
prevented.
In many cases, it would be desirable or necessary, in lieu of a single smelling-salt
or other hygienic material, to use two of different kinds, in order to obtain special
effects by their combined action. To this end my correspondent employs &
receiver a³ (Fig. 5) having a longitudinally arranged partition, so that in this
manner each receiver is divided into two chambers or parts, or such a receiver as
shown for example at a³ in Fig. 6, which is forined in each case of two separate and
independent receivers, making four in all.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, aud in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is;-
1. A nasal hygienic appliance compusing receivers such as a and a¹ and an
elastic connection C substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A nasal hygienic appliance such as claimed in Claim 1 wherein each receiver
such as a (Fig. 5) is divided into two parts in order to hold two different substances
separate from one another substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. A nasal hygienic appliance of the kind claimed in Claim 1 wherein on each
side of the device two distinct receivers such as a³ are employed substantially as
|and for the purpose described.

page_text: 4. The nasal hygienic appliance constructed and operating substantially as and
for the purpose described with reference to Fig. 1 or Figures 23 and 4 or Figure 5
or Figure 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1894.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.