Improvements in Apparatus for the Diffusion of Deodorising and Disinfecting Material.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1887
Specification Accepted, 30th Dec., 1887
Improvements in Apparatus for the Diffusion of Deodorising and
Disinfecting Material.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buidings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 object of this invention is to treat the head and respiratory organs with iodo
carboline smoke, errhines, and other suitable remedies compounded into a very finely-
powdered state and applied by inhalation.
The object of my invention is, further to provide a convenient receptacle for said
compound by means of which the fine smoke-like particles may be thrown upon the
atmosphere and inhaled, or may be ejected against a diseased surface.
This invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the several parts
of the said receptacle, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.
Referring to tho accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference
indicate similar parts.
Figure 1 is a sectional view of the most approved form of this smoke or puff ball.
Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 shows another manner in which said ball may be constructed.
Figure 4 is a plan view of Figure 3.
In Figures 1 and 2, a is a hollow elastic ball, preferably of india rubber, and about
the size shown, is a small opening in said ball, by means of which the compound
designed to he used is entered and ejected. c is a covering cemented or otherwise
secured over or in the hole b, of woven wire or cloth, through which the smoke-
like compound may be passed. d is an annular jacket cemented over the netting c,
having an opening concentric with the opening b in the ball. The said jacket is
preferably made of fine leather, and is for the purpose of preventing the edges of the
netting from fraying. It may also contain the title and necessary trade mark.

page_text: It will be seen that the perforated or woven cloth may be secured in position in
many ways but the hereinbofore described method is shown as an inexpensive and
convenient one.
In Figures 3 and 4, e is the hollow ball as before, having an opening f, through
which the compound is introduced. After the ball is partially filled, as shown in the
sectional views, opening fis closed by means of a covering 9, cemented over it, or in
any other convenient manner. A number of small openings ii, are placed
(preferably) in the opposite side of the ball from said covering, or they may be placed
in the covering g itself.
The use of the ball is as follows: The ball is only partially filled with the com-
pound desired to be used, leaving room for its sides to be thrown in by a sudden and
gentle pressure. The small screened openings of the ball being brought near to the
mouth or nose of the patient, a sudden pressure is brought upon the ball, throwing a
stream of air from it, upon which are carried the smoke like particles of the com-
pound. These remedies in the form of smoke are thus carried upon the breath into all
portions of the respiratory organism. The principal use of this invention lies in
the treatment in this manner of catarrhal and bronchial complaints.
I am aware that rubber vessels with projecting nozzles have been used for projecting
powders into a particular spot; but I am not aware that an elastic vessel has been used
for and adapted to diffusing the powder upon the atmosphere.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign Correspondent I declare that what I claim is
First. A hollow elastic ball for diffusing medicated compounds having an opening
in one side and a perforated substance provided over the said opening.
Second. A hollow clastic ball having a screened opening at a single point, flush or
within the walls of the ball, through which a medicated compound may be driven by
pressure upon the ball, said screened opening being adapted to spread the compound
upon the atmosphere in the form of smoke for the purposes of inhalation, substantially
as shown and set forth.
ath d of November 1887
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.