IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE ADMINIS- TRATION OF VAPOUR BATHS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Antoine François Mennons, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire
of France, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE ADMINIS-
TRATION OF VAPOUR BATHS."-A communication from Eliacin Edouard
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marc Antoine François
Mennons at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th February 1862.
I, MARC ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE
ADMINISTRATION OF VAPOUR BATHS," to be as follows:-
This apparatus, the object of which is to replace in a portable form, the
complicated arrangements generally employed for the administration of vapour
baths, is composed of two principal parts, viz., 1stly, a framework.com-
prising two or more semicircular bands, connected by longitudinal ties, and

page_text: forming a species of open vaulting; 2dly, of a vapour generator. Figure 1
of the accompanying Drawing represents the vaulting, over which is stretched,
when in use, a cover or curtain of impermeable tissue. Figure 2 represents the
generating apparatus. a, spirit lamp fixed to the support b, b; c, boiler, charged
with water or medicated solutions; d, grating set over the boiler and serving as
tray for aromatic plants and such other products as should not be infused in the
water; e, pierced cover through which pass the vapours disingaged from the
boiler. To administer the bath with the apparatus constructed as above, the
patient is placed on a mattress under the vaulting, which is covered over with
the impermeable curtain. The generator is then placed beneath in any suitable
position, the boiler being charged with an appropriate medicinal solution, or
with such liquid as may be required to react on the solid matters placed on
the grating. When dry vapour is prescribed, the upper section of the
generating apparatus is removed, the spirit lamp and support being alone
retained. In the generality of cases the head of the patient may be,covered
in by the curtain.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARC ANTOINE
FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 39, Rue de
l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, Her special licence that I, the
said Marc Antoine François Mennons, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE
ADMINISTRATION OF VAPOUR BATHS," (a communication from Eliacin Edouard

page_text: Pomier (M.D.), a person resident at Egriselles-le-Boccage, (Yonne), i
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Marc Antoin
François Mennons, my exécutors or administrators, by an instrument i
writing,nnder my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, shoul
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the sam
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, 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, reference being had to the Figures of the
accompanying Drawing and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
This apparatus, the object of which is to replace in a portable form the
complicated arrangements generally employed for the administration of vapour
baths, is composed of two principal parts, viz., 1stly, of a framework, com-
prising two or more semicircular bands, connected by longitudinal ties, and
forming a species of open vaulting; 2dly, of a vapour generator.
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Figure 1, of the accompanying Drawing, represents the vaulting constructed
of iron or other suitable material, and over which is stretched, when in use, a
cover or curtain of impermeable tissue. Figure 2, represents the generating
apparatus. a, spirit lamp, fixed to the support b, b; c, boiler, charged with water
or medicated solutions; d, grating, set over the boiler, and serving as tray for
aromatic plants, and such other products as should not be infused in the water;
e, pierced cover, through which pass the vapours disengaged from the boiler.
To administer the bath with the apparatus constructed as above, the patient
is placed on a mattress under the vaulting, which is covered over with the
impermeable curtain. The generator is then placed beneath in any suitable
position, the boiler being charged with an appropriate medicinal solution, or
with such liquid as may be required to react on the solid matters contained in
the grating. When dry vapour is prescribed, the upper section of the
generating apparatus is removed, the spirit lamp and support being alone
retained. In the generality of cases the head of the patient may be covered
in by the curtain.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which it may be performed, I declare, that without confining myself to the
precise details of execution above laid down, I claim, and desire to protect
by Letters Patent, the improved combination of apparatus for the adminis-

page_text: tration of vapour baths, constructed and arranged substantially as herein set
forth, and shewn in the Figures of the annexed Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of: August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.