IMPROVEMENTS IN INHALERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN WARD COUSINS M.D. of Riversdale Kent Road Southsea in the County
of Hants do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
INHALERS" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
inhalers of a very portable character for inhaling medicinal vapours resulting from
volatile oils acids or spirits or other chemical and vegetable substancés contained in
sponge cotton wool or other fibrous materials saturated therewith.
My improved inhaler consists of a hollow instrument of any suitable form and
material (but advantageously cone shaped) and having a mouth piece at one end
and a perforated cap or cover fitting closely on the other end.
This hollow instrument is filled with sponge cotton wool or other fibrous material
saturated with volatile oil spirit or any medicinal compound the vapour of which
the user desires to inhale.
If necessary the instrument can be supported and retained on the nose of the
user by means of a wire or other clip attached to the instrument when inhaling by
the mouth or nostril.
This improved form of inhaler can be introduced up or into the nostril of a
patient a spherical or other suitably shaped bead of suitable size being placed on the
end of the mouth piece by which means the instrument is readily retained in
position.
The instrument may be made of ebonite wood metal or other suitable material
or of combinations thereof and of various sizes according to the particular purpose
or case to which it may be applied.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I JOHN WARD COUSINS M.D. of Riversdale Kent Road Southsea in the County
of Hants do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
INHALERS" 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 improvements in the arrangement and construction of
inhalers of a very portable character for inhaling medicinal vapours resulting from
volatile oils acids or spirits or other chemical and vegetable substances contained in
sponge cotton wool or other fibrous inaterials saturated therewith.
My improved inhaler as represented by Figures 1, 2, 3 (which show a side view
end view and longitudinal section) of the drawings hereto annexed consists of a
hollow instrument a of any suitable form and material (but advantageously cone
shaped) and having a mouth piece a¹ at one end and a perforated cap or cover a²
fitting closely on the other end.
This hollow instrument a is filled with sponge cotton wool or other fibrous
material saturated with, volatile oil spirit or other medicinal compound the vapour
of which the user desires to inhale.
If necessary the instrument a can be supported and retained on the nose of the
user by means of a wire b or other clip attached to the instrument when inhaling
by the mouth or nostril.
This improved form of inhaler can be introduced up or into the nostril of a
patient a spherical or other suitably shaped bead c of suitable size being placed on
the end of the mouth picce a¹ by which means the instrument is readily retained
in position.
The instrument a may be made of ebonite wood metal or other suitable material
or of combinations thereof and of various sizes according to the particular purpose
or case to which it may be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
The improved arrangement and construction of portable inhalers for inhaling
medicinal or other vapours either by the mouth or nostril substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the drawing annexed.