Improvements in Combined Vaporizers and Inhalers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Vaporizers and Inhalers.
I, CHARLES LINCE COULTER, of 452 Parliament Street in the City of Toronto,
in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada,
Physician, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMBINED VAPORIZERS AND INHALERS," and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention relates to devices for vaporizing medicating and inhaling medicated
or other liquids.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my improved vaporizer and inhaler.
Fig. 2 is another elevation of the same, taken at a right angle to Fig. 1, and
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same.
A is a cylindrical stand having a weighted foot or base a, and provided with a
handle A. Just above the base, a portion of the cylindrical casing is cut away to
form an aperture a' for the insertion of a heater, a spirit lamp C, having a large
flat shield formed by a disk attached to the burner or wick tube being preferred
and perforations all are provided for the admission of air. B is a water tight
vessel or boiler having a slightly conical body loosely fitting the upper part of the
casing A, and depending from the upper rim thereof by a flange b. The upper part
of said boiler above said flange tapers off conically into a wide cylindrical neck b
open at the top and is adapted to form one part of a slip joint. D is a bent tube
having at one end the cylindrical capsule mouth piece d, adapted to fit closely upon
the cylindrical neck of the boiler, and at the other end the bulb d¹ having a wide
straight cylindrical mouth d adapted for the insertion in said bulb of a sponge D¹.
E is an inhaling tube having at one end a wide mouth e¹ with a straight cylindrical
end e adapted to connect with the mouth d" of the bulb d' by passing tightly over
said mouth and forming a slip joint, and at the other the mouth piece e adapted to
fit over the lips of a person. The tube D is so bent that when the apparatus is
placed upon the table before a person, the mouth piece e meets the users lips or
nostrils at a convenient angle, the tube E being preferably straight, but may of
course be bent if desired.
For use the boiler B is partially filled with water (preferably hot) which may or
may not be medicated. In the bulb is placed a small sponge saturated with
essential oils or any drug or medicament desired. The lamp C being lit and placed
under the boiler causes the water in the latter to be evaporated vapors to pass
through the tube D bulb d' and tube E and to be inhaled from the mouth piece e,
or to be dispersed into the atmosphere.
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. In a combined vaporizer and inhaler, the combination of the cylindrical
stand A, having weighted base, handle, aperture for the insertion of a lamp, and air
perforations, the boiler B having flange 6 and wide mouthed cylindrical neck b', a
bent tube D having a capsule mouth d to form an overlapping slip joint with boiler
neck at one end and an open cylindrical bulb d' at the other, a sponge D' in said
bulb, an inhaling tube E having a cylindrical mouth piece to form an overlapping
slip joint with the bulb at one end and a mouth piece e at the other and a spirit
lamp C having large disk shield c attached to the burner tube, substantially as
set forth.
2. In a combined vaporizer and inhaler, the combination of the cylindrical

page_text: stand A having a weighted base and an aperture adapted to receive a heater, a
boiler B having a flange b by which it is suspended at the top rim of said stand and
a wide mouthed cylindrical neck adapted to form one part of a union joint, a bent
tube D having at one end a cylindrical capsule mouth adapted to connect with the
boiler mouth and at the other a cylindrical bulb adapted to receive a sponge, and
an inhaling tube E having a cylindrical mouth piece adapted to form a union joint
with said bulb at one end and a mouth piece e at the other end, substantially as set
forth.
3. In a combined vaporizer and inhaler, the combination with a boiler and
inhaling tube of a bulb adapted to hold a removable sponge interposed in a tubular
passage conducting the vapors from the boiler to an inhaler mouth piece e,
substantially as set forth.
4. In a combined vaporizer and inhaler, the combination with a cylindrical stand
adapted to receive a lamp and a boiler, a spirit lamp C having a large disk shield c
attached to the burner tube, substantially as set forth.
Dated, at Ottawa, Canada, this 18th day of April A.D. 1891.
CHARLES L. COULTER,
Per A. Harvey, his Attorney.