A Life Protector.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Life Protector.
WILLIAM SAMUEL BAILEY No. 2 St. Georges Road Norland Road Notting Hill
London, W. in the County of Middlesex Coppersmith do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
In the use of Policemen's staff's cutlasses or any dangerous weapon great risk arise
To overcome such
of killing or wounding any person or persons so attacked.
difficulties and accidents metal or composition chambers are formed containing gases,
liquids, or any substance of an overpowering nature, for the purpose of rendering
any person or persons powerless. The apparatus is placed in any suitable position
about the lamp, staff or any other article being fitted for this purpose. A suitable
insolation to prevent the heat from the lamp generating the pressure too high is also
provided. The staff or staffs are made hollow to contain a tube, or tubes, or vessel,
either inside, outside or around them, or the apparatus may be placed in any con-
venient position about the body. Each vessel is fitted with a valve or cock with
either a fixed or flexible appliance so constructed as to be readily applied to the person
or persons to be overcome.
Dated this Twentieth day of February 188nine.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Life Protector.
WILLIAM SAMUEL BAILEY Coppersmith No. 2 St. George's Road Norland Road
Notting Hill 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 :-
in the use of policemen's staves, cutlasses, or any dangerous weapon, great risk
arise of killing, or wounding, any person, or persons, so attacked. To overcome
such difficulties, and accidents, metal or composition chambers are formed, containing
gases, liquids, or any substance, of an overpowering nature for the purpose of rendering
any person, or persons, powerless. The apparatus is placed in any suitable position
about the lamp, staff, or any other article being fitted for this purpose. A suitable
insulation to prevent the heat from the lamp generating the pressure too high, is also
provided. The staff or staves are made hollow to contain a tube, or tubes, or vessel,
either inside outside, or around them, or the apparatus may be placed in any
convenient position about the body. Each vessol is fitted with a valve, or cock,
with either a fixed, or flexible, appliance so constructed as to be readily applied to
the person, or persons, to be overcome.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect
I will now proceed to describe the drawings as annexed.
Fig. 1. shows a part section and elevation of pistol form.
Fig. 2. shows a modification containing chambers, in pistol form, with an arrange-
ment to allow the gases to expand.
Figs. 3 and 4. shows watchman's, or policeman's baton, adapted to receive the
aforesaid.
Figs. 5 and 6. shows an ordinary watchman's lamp fitted with protector, a being
the chamber, the valve, c the lever, being a safety pin when not required to use
same. d the insulation.

page_text: 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
1st. The insertion or fitting of a metal, or composition, chamber, to any article
that is required for, or can be utilized as a weapon of defence, or attack, such
chambers being substantially charged with gases, or liquids, or substances, as and for
the purpose described.
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2nd. The insertion, or attachment, of a suitable chamber, or vessel, to a lamp, or
lantern, or a specially constructed lamp chambered to receive gases, or liquids, may
be used with the necessary insulation, and substantially charging the same with gases,
or liquids, or substances, as and for the purpose described.
3rd. The application of gases. or liquids or substances, in the place of gunpowder,
or other explosives, but without projectiles, of any description for rendering persons,
or animals, powerless, as and for the purpose described.
4th. The apparatus represented in the accompanying drawings for the purpose
specified substantially described and illustrated.
Dated this 4th day of November 1889.
WILLIAM SAMUEL BAILEY.