AN IMPROVED ÅRRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF COMBINED CABINET AND AUTOMATON SMOKING OR FUMIGATING APPARATUS
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Cornclius Kinder and
Joseph Thornton Kinder at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st January 1874.
We, EDMUND CORNELIUS KINDER, and JOSEPH THORNTON KINDER,
both of Stratford, in the County of Essex, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention for "AN IMPROVED ÅRRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION
OF COMBINED CABINET AND AUTOMATON SMOKING OR FUMIGATING APPARATUS," to
be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of producing a cabinet that
will be capable of holding and displaying cigars, and also of containing
a novel arrangement of internal mechanism in connection with a
receiving or inlet pipe and an exhausting or outlet pipe, that will when
in action alternately produce in one pipe suction and in the other
exhaustion, which being applied to fusable material as hercin-after
described will fumigate or smoke the room in which such cabinet may
be placed.
The arrangement and adaptation to the cabinet of the fumigating
apparatus, together with its employment may be thus described :-In
one of the divisions of the cabinet a small expanding and contracting

page_text: chamber is formed, the rising and falling cover of which is connected by
a slotted lever with the stud of a disc forming one of a train of wheels
actuated by the uncoiling of a wound up spring.
The revolution of the disc when the spring has been wound up (the
starting and stopping of which is accomplished by the moving of a
finger into or out of contact with the stop wheel of the train connecting
the disc with the spring motor), causes the stud of the same actuating
the slotted lever to transmit to the bellows-like receptacle a contracting
and expanding action, the air being supplied or drawn in whilst
expanding through the inlet pipe, and exhausted whilst collapsing
through the outlet pipe, valves being supplied to stop or close the
orifices of the pipes alternately as required.
Over the termination of the suction or inlet pipe outside the lid
or cover of the cabinet a bowl or receptacle is placed, and to the
projecting end of the outlet or exhaust pipe a sprayer or diffuser nozzle
is fixed.
When it is desired to fumigate or smoke the room by means of the
improved construction of cabinet the bowl of the inlet or suction pipe is
first filled with tobacco or other deoderizing weed or material, and the
wheels of the internal mechanism set at work by the removal of the stop
finger, on the release of which a light being applied to the bowl of the
suction pipe the material therein will become ignited and the fume or
vapour withdrawn therefrom will pass down the inlet pipe into the
bellous-like receptacle, from which it again becomes ejected through the
exhaust pipe into the outer atmosphere; the alternate action of suction
through the inlet from the bowl and exhaustion through the outlet into
the atmosphere intermittently diffuses a deoderizing vapour, fragrance,
or perfume according to the nature and quality of the mixture or weed
being consumed.
The novel employment and usefulness of the apparatus may be
extended for the purposes of advertizing or amusement by applying
thereto the figure of a man, which when the apparatus is set in motion
will represent the figure as an automaton smoker.