Improvements in or connected with Spitting Mugs, Chambers, and like Vessels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Spitting Mugs, Chambers, and
like Vessels.
1, Dr. HENRI IscovEsco, of 114 Rue de la Bóetic, Paris, in the Republic of
France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to vessels designed to receive the expectorations or
excrement of invalids and others and has for its object to provide means whereby
any harmful germs such as those of tuberculosis, typhoid fever &c. contained in
such expectorations or excrement will be destroyed.
In carrying out the invention I provide an outer vessel of any suitable form
within which I place a second vessel, hereinafter referred to as the inner receiver
which is composed of inexpensive material capable of being destroyed with its
contents by fire.
This inner receiver may be made of cardboard, celluloid or other suitable
material and rendered impervious by means of tar, varnish or other suitable
coating.
In order to prevent the contents of the vessel being visible to a person using the
same I employ a shield or partition advantageously made of the same material as
the inner receiver and provided with a central hole. In the space beneath this
shield 1, in some cases introduce a suitable absorbent powder which may be
rendered antiseptic.
If desired two or more shields may be placed in a single vessel which latter is
provided with a cover also of combustible material.
Dated the 28th day of October 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Spitting Mugs, Chambers, and
like Vessels.
I, Dr. HENRI ISCOVESCO, of 114, Rue de la Boetie, Paris, in the Republic of
France, 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 vessels designed to receive the expectorations or
excrement of invalids and others and has for its object to provide means whereby
any morbid germs such as those of tuberculosis, typhoid fever etc. contained in such
expectorations or excrement or in pus and the dressings of sores soiled with pus
resulting from surgical and other operations will be destroyed.
The invention consists in the employment of an outer vessel within which I place
a second vessel (hereinafter referred to as the inner receiver) which is composed
of inexpensive material capable of being destroyed, together with its contents,
by fire.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a spitting mug provided with my improvements,
and
Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

page_text: Figure 4 a plan of a form of my improved vessel suitable for receiving pus or the
soiled dressings from sores.
Figure 5 is an elevation, and
Figure 6 is a plan of a form of my improved vessel suitable for holding
instruments immersed in an antiseptic solution.
A, Figures 1 and 2, is the outer vessel of porcelain earthenware, metal or other
suitable material. B is the inner receiver composed of inexpensive combustible
material such as cardboard or celluloid and rendered impermeable, if not already
so, by means of tar, varnish or other suitable coating. The inner receiver B is so
formed that it may be easily separated from the outer vessel A for the purpose of
being destroyed by fire.
C is a shield or partition also formed of combustible material and provided with
a central opening the object of this shield being to prevent the contents of the
vessel being visible to a person using the same and to protect the powder D herein-
after described. These shields C may be superposed upon each other so as to fill
the inner receiver B.
D is any suitable mixture composed of an absorbent powder easily combustible
and which may be rendered antiseptic.
E is a cover, also of combustible material, to hide the interior of the vessel from
view.
The vessels intended to receive the pus or the soiled dressings of sores are made
for example of the form shewn in Figures 3 and 4.
Or the vessels can be employed for holding instruments immersed in an antiseptic
solution in which case I make them by preference square in plan as illustrated in.
Figures 5 and 6.
The shape of the. vessels can obviously be varied, their characteristic feature
being that they can be made use of during the operations and be afterwards
destroyed by fire owing to the combustible nature of the material of which the
vessels is composed.
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. The combination in a vessel designed to receive the expectorations or
excrement of invalids and others of an outer vessel A and an inner receiver B,
shield C, powder D and cover E substantially as hereinbefore described and for the
purpose specified.
2. In a vessel such as that described in Claim 1 the use of superposed shields or
partitions C, substantially as herein before described.
3. The combustible vessels furnished with sterilizing compounds and piled up
into packets so that a surgeon or other person may always have at his disposal
already sterilized vessels which have never before been used and which can be
thrown into the fire directly after an operation substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated the 19th day of August 1891
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.