IMPROVED MEANS FOR INFLATING AIR CUSHIONS PILLOWS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1885

page_text: I MAX HESSE of 22 Parsonage Manchester in the County of Lancaster Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of the invention for IMPROVED MEANS FOR INFLATING
AIR CUSHIONS PILLOWS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES (which invention has been
communicated to me from abroad by Isaac Heine of Leipzig) to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is so to construct air cushions, pillows and other
similar articles, made of air proof fabrics, that they can be inflated by alternately
compressing and releasing a hollow elastic handle attached thereto.
The cushion pillow or other article instead of having only one mouthpiece for
valve, has three such openings near to each other. The hollow elastic handle is
attached by its two ends to the two outer openings, being connected thereto by
means of a ring of hard india rubber or other suitable material which is fitted
with a valve which allows the air to enter the cushion through the hollow handle
but not to escape therefrom and the handle itself is provided with a third opening
also fitted with a similar valve opening inwards and closing outwards.
The central opening in the cushion or pillow is fitted with an ordinary escape
valve which can be closed by screwing it round in the usual manner.
This valve being closed it is evident that upon alternately compressing and
releasing the hollow elastic handle air will be drawn into the same and forced
therefrom through the valves into the cushion, pillow, or other article.until it is
sufficiently inflated, and that the air can be immediately expelled on unscrewing
the escape valves.
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.

page_text: Improved Means for Inflating Air Cushions, Pillows, and other
similar Articles.
I MAX HESSE of 22 Parsonage Manchester in the County of Lancaster Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of the invention for IMPROVED MEANS FOR INFLATING
AIR CUSHIONS, PILLOWS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES (being a communication
to me from abroad by Isaac Heine of Leipzig) 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 so to construct air cushions pillows and other
similar articles made of air proof fabrics that they can be inflated by alternately
compressing and releasing a hollow elastic handle attached thereto.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood I have annexed hereunto
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have marked the same with figures
and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following explanation
thereof.
Fig. 1. in the annexed drawing is an external elevation of an air cushion made
according to the said invention and Fig. 2 is a section of the hollow elastic handle
and valves.
The cushion a, a (or the pillow or other article) instead of having only one
mouthpiece for a valve, has three such openings b, c, and d near to each other.
The hollow elastic handle e, e is attached by its two ends to the two outer
openings b, and d being connected thereto by means of a ring of hard india
rubber f, for other suitable material and fitted with a valve g, g which allows the
air to enter the cushion through the hollow handle e, e but not to escape therefrom
and the handle e, e itself is provided with a third opening h, h, also fitted with a
valve opening inwards and closing outwards.
I may here remark that although this valve is shown in the drawing in the form
of a clack and the valves g, g drawn in the form of nipples having slits or cuts for
the passage of the air, any other suitable form of valve may be employed for this
purpose.
The central opening c in the cushion or pillow a, a is fitted with an ordinary or
other escape valve i, i which can be closed by screwing it round in the usual
manner. This valve i, i being closed it is evident that upon alternately
compressing and releasing the hollow elastic handle e, e, air will be drawn into the
same and forced therefrom through the valves g, g into the cushion a, a (or the
pillow, or other article) until it is sufficiently inflated, and that the air can be
immediately expelled therefrom in the usual manner on unscrewing the escape
valve i, i.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim as the invention communicated to me by the said Isaac Heine, is
The combination with an air cushion, pillow or other article made of air proof
fabric, of a hollow elastic handle fitted with valves so constructed and arranged
that the air cushion or other article can be inflated by alternately compressing and
releasing such handle substantially as herein before particularly described and
illustrated by the drawings annexed.