A Method and Apparatus Employed therein for Destroying the Germs of Infectious Maladies.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1890-Accepted, 12th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method and Apparatus Employed therein for Destroying the
Germs of Infectious Maladies.
1, ALFRED WASSMUTH of Barmen, No. 42 Nenerweg, Rhenish Prussia Germany,
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The increase and the propagation of fungi and other germs or factors of infection
with maladies is counteracted by the inhalation of vapourized medicines or by
injections in order to get the medicines by these ways into the lungs and so into the
blood and thus kill the germs of malady.
The inhalation is very troublesome for the patient and difficile to be controlled, and
the injections are of little value.
In order to enable a patient at any place to breathe antiseptical means in a very
easy manner, I have invented the following method and the apparatus required
thereby described hereafter and shown on the annexed drawing.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section or view of the apparatus in a standing position.
Fig. 2 shows the same arranged hanging on a ceiling.
My method consists mainly in this, that I dissolve the medicines in a suitable
percentage in water and that I disperse the solution by means of a suitable pulverizer
in the room in which the patient stays.
The air in this room must be wholly saturated with the pulverized medicine that
thus the patient is compelled to breath this saturated air.
By this manner the medicines are brought to the lungs and into the blood by the
simplest manner possible and without being in the least troublesome or dangerous
to the patient.
The degree or percentage of the solution can be fixed exactly at any strength and
the time during which the patient shall remain in the saturated air can be arranged
according to the state of health or requirements of the person being under medical
treatment.
The effect is safe and sure without the least danger to the patient and it can be
applied at any place which is of special importance for such ill persons that cannot be
moved about.
The apparatus used with this method I construct in two manners, in an upright or
standing forme and in a hanging arrangement.
Figure 1 standing arrangement.
The apparatus consists in the combination of a tank A, to which is fixed a small
force pump B, with a pulverizer C.
The solution of the medicine is put into the tank A, say for instance a solution
of 5% natrium chloroborosum; that is a salt composed of 9% chlorine, 17% sodium,
27% water & 47% boracic acid, by means of the pump B it is forced through the
pipe D to the pulverizer and by the action of the latter it is spread all through the
room where the patient abides or stays and he thus breaths it with the air.
Surplus liquid or such part of it that is not pulverized gathers in the cup E and
is thence returned into the tank by the return pipe F.
Figure 2 hanging arrangement.
This arrangement differs from the preceding one only by the pulverizer C¹ being
reversed that it can be suspended to the ceiling of the room or otherwise. It is
especially adapted for being fixed at the top of a closed cabinet in which the patient
can sit or stand.
The force pipe D¹ leads from the pump B to the pulverizer and the return pipe F¹
returns surplus fluid book into the tank A

page_text: With this apparatus the cup E of course must be replaced by properly shaping the
bottom plate of the pulverizer as shown by the figure; holes G₁ allow the drops
gathering there to flow to the pipe F and thence back into the tank.
I beg to remark that I do not claim any special forme of pulverizer by itself;
any good instrument of that sort can serve my purpose.
My method and the combined apparatus invented by me has the great advantage
that the patient may stay in any room and he may be in any position convenient to
him; he can sit down or walk about in the room; he can work the apparatus himself
or the apparatus can be so placed that the patient does not get aware of it and of its
being set to work so that the patient is not the least troubled and yet that the
medicines shall have their sure effect upon him, because he is forced by nature to
breathe the saturated air of the room where he stays.
Dated this 9th day of September 1889.
KARL T. MAYER,
Agent for A. Wassmuth.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method and Apparatus Employed therein for Destroying the
Germs of Infectious Maladies.
I, ALFRED WASSMUTH of Barmen in the province of Rhenish Prussia, Germany,
Chemist 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:-
The increase and the propagation of fungi, baccilus and other factors of infections
with maladies is counteracted by the inhalation of vaporized medicines and by
injection in order to get the medicines by this way into the lungs and so into the
blood and thus kill the germs of malady.
The inhalation is very troublesome for the patient and difficult to be controled and
the injections are of little value.
In order to enable a patient at any place to breath antiseptical means in a very easy
manner, I have invented the following method and the apparatus required therein,
described hereafter and shown on the annexed drawing.
Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of the apparatus in a standing position.
Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same arranged as hanging on a ceiling.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section along lines a b of both figs. 1 or 2.
Fig. 4 is a similar section along lines c d of those figures.
My method consists mainly in this that I dissolve the medicines in a suitable
percentage in water and that I disperse the solution by means of a suitable pulverizer
in the room in which the patient is located.
The air in this room must be completely saturated with the pulverized medicine
and that thus the patient is compelled to breath this saturated air. By this manner
the medicines are brought in the simplest manner possible to the lungs and into the
blood, without being in the least troublesome or dangerous to the patient.
The degree or percentage of the solution can be fixed exactly and minutely at any
strength, and the time during which the patient shall remain in the saturated air can
be arranged according to the state of health or necessity of the circumstances of the
person to be treated.
The effect is safe and sure without the least danger to the patient and the method
and apparatus can be applied at any place. This is of special importance in such
cases where the ill persons can not be carried about.
The apparatus used with my new method of treatment I construct in two manners,
in an upright or standing position and in a hanging arrangement.
Figure 1, standing arrangement.
This apparatus consists in the combination of a tank A to which is fixed a small
force pump B with a pulverizer C.

page_text: The solution of the medicine is put into the tank A, say for instance a solution
of 5% of "natrium chloroborosum" which is a salt composed of 9% chlorine,
17% sodium, 27% boracic acid and 47% water. By means of the pump B this
solution is forced through the pipe D to the pulverizer C and by the action of the
latter it is spread all through the room where the patient abides or stays and the
patient thus breaths it with the air.
Surplus liquid or such part of it that is not pulverized gathers in the cup E and is
thence returned into the tank by the return pipe F.
Figure 2, hanging arrangement.
This arrangement differs from the preceding one only by the pulverizer C¹ being
reversed that it may be suspended on the ceiling of a room. It is specially adapted
for being fixed at the top of a closed cabinet in which the patient can sit or stand.
The force pipe D' leads from the pump B to the pulverizer and the return pipe F¹
returns the surplus fluid back into the tank A as before.
With this apparatus the cup E of course must be replaced and in its stead the
bottom plate of the pulverizer must be shaped as shown in the figure; holes G¹ allow
the drops gathering there to flow to the pipe F¹ and thence back into the tank.
I beg to remark that I do not claim any special pulverizer by itself, any good
apparatus of that sort can serve my purpose.
My method and the combined apparatus invented by me has the great advantage
that the patient may stay in any room and in any position convenient to him; he can
sit or walk about in the room; he can work the apparatus himself or the apparatus
may be so placed that the patient does not get aware of it and of its being set to
work, so that the patient is not in the least troubled and yet that the medicines shall
have their sure effect upon him, because he is forced by nature to breath the saturated
air of the room where he stays.
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 method for destroying fungus, baccillus and other germs of infection with
infectious maladies which method consists in that, that the air in the room where the
patient stays is saturated with antiseptical medicines which have been dissolved and
the solution of which has been pulverized and thus spread in the locality so that the
patient is compelled to breath this saturated air.
2). The apparatus required in this method consisting in the combination of a
tank A, a pump B fixed to it and a pulverizer C or C respectively with the force
pipe D'or D', the return pipe For F¹ in a standing or hanging position respectively
the whole as set forth and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 5th day of June 1890
KARL T. MAYER,
Agent for A. Wassmuth.