AN IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING Vapour Baths
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hector Auguste Dufrené, of No. 10, Rue de la
Fidélité, Paris, in the Republic of France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Inven-
vention of "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING
Vapour Baths.”—A communication from Madame Caroline Devaux,
a person resident at Tours, in the Republic of France.
Sealed the 5th February 1875, and dated the 12th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hector Auguste Dufrené
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th August 1874.
I, HECTOR AUGUSTE DUFRENÉ, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris,
in the Republic of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING VAPOUR
BATHS," to be as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: the bed of an invalid or in an arın chair. This apparatus consists of a
zinc cover which is placed over the bed and covers tho invalid, whose
head only passes out through a hole made in a waterproof cloth closing
in the apparatus. This chamber or enclosure is provided with a pipe or
chimney for tho escape of steam, and encloses a tube perforated with
holes for receiving the vapour produced in an apparatus placed at the
foot of the bed. This apparatus consists of a tin or other metal box
containing water, and is heated by a spirit lamp.
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By modifying the form of the chamber,- this kind of bath may bọ
applied to an arm chair.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
.. filed by the said Hector Auguste Dufrené in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HECTOR
AUGUSTE DUFRENÉ, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Republic
of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of
our Lord Ono thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty- 1
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hector Auguste Dufrené, Her special
licence that I, the said Hector Augusto Dufrené, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Hector Augusto
Dufrené, 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,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING VAPOUR BATHS," a
communication from Madame Carolino Devaux, a person resident at
Tours, in the Republic of France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Hector Auguste. Dufrené, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their

page_text: Figure 6 represents part of the bed apparatus without the cloth.
a and B are the perforated pipes through which the steam escapes and is
distributed; C, opening for putting the stove in communication with
the said pipes.
Figure 7 is a detached view of the stove and lamp. B is the stove; 5
C, D, the pipes, and E the regulator.
Figure 8 shews the lamp in detail. a is the body of the lamp;
D, inlet for the spirit; B, C, air pipes; E, F, are brass burners with
their wicks, and which pass into the stove through the openings G, H,
Figure 11.
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The steam for the bath is produced from water in a hot water box
placed in the stove; a, Figure 9, shows this hot water box; B, pipe
passing through the box. On the top of the water box is placed
a chamber for containing aromatics, and shewn in Figure 10 at a; B
is an opening corresponding with the tube B of the water box; C, D, is 1
a handle for removing the aromatic chamber.
Figure 11 shews the stove with the cover raised. a, cover of the
stove; B, chamber for the aromatics; C, handle of same; D, tube of
the water chamber E; F, body of the stove.
The apparatuses may be constructed of any suitable material, but I 2
make them preferably of zinc.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention communicated to
me, and the manner of performing the same, what I claim is, the
general arrangement and construction of an improved apparatus for
administering vapour baths, as herein-before described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whercof, I, the said Hector Auguste Dufrené, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Gua