Improvements in and connected with Ozonized and Electrified Cabinets or Chambers for Therapeutic and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
Improvements in and connected with Ozonized and Electrified
Cabinets or Chambers for Therapeutic and other Purposes.
I, HENRY NEWMAN LAWRENCE, 24ª, Regent Street, London, S.W., Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means for ozonizing the air in partially or wholly closed
cabinets or chambers for therapeutic purposes or otherwise and consists in fitting or
providing a cabinet or chamber with electrical apparatus for the production of ozone
by means of electric sparks or brush or other electric discharge so placed at or near
the orifice or orifices for admission of air to the cabinet or chamber that such air may
be strongly ozonized or impregnated with ozone.
With this object. I provide a cabinet or chamber having suitable arrangements of
any known form for the admission and escape or expulsion of air with electrical
apparatus of any known form suitable for the production of ozone by means of sparks
or brush or other electrical discharge in air or in partial vacuum, such for instance as
a frictional machine, an induction coil or an influence machine. This electrical
apparatus may be operated from outside or inside the cabinet or chamber by
mechanical chemical, electrical or thermal action or any of the known methods of
converting energy into electrical action.
The apparatus being in operation all air entering the cabinet or chamber passes
over the discharging points, knobs or brushes and so becomes highly charged with
ozone.
I also arrange a network of electrical conductors on opposite walls of the cabinet or
chamber and connect them with the poles of a machine or apparatus capable of
generating electric currents of high potential or of transforming currents of low
potential into those of high potential and upon the face of these conductors I arrange
small points or brushes to promote electric discharge and so add to the ozone of
the air in the cabinet or chamber as well as to electrically influence any conductor
or semi-conductor, such as the human body, placed within the cabinet or chamber.
Inside the cabinet or chamber I sometimes place apparatus suitable for the exercise
of the lungs and chest such for instance as a machine with a pumping action
(which may be used to operate the sparking machine) or any of the known machines
for the active or passive exercise of the body or portions thereof.
Dated this 9th day of February 1889.
H. NEWMAN LAWRENCE,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Ozonized and Electrified
Cabinets or Chambers for Therapeutic and other Purposes.
I, HENRY NEWMAN LAWRENCE, of 24ª, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Electrical Engineer. 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:-
My invention relates to the ozonizing of the air or atmosphere in partially or
wholly closed cabinets or chambers for therapeutic purposes and consists of a cabinet
or chamber having suitable adjustable inlet or outlet passages for admission and
exit of air at or near the inner end of which inlet passage or passages an electric
discharge in the form of sparks or brush is caused to take place whereby air entering
the chamber or cabinet and passing through the electric discharge becomes highly
ozonized.

page_text: In some cases I arrange a net work of electrical conductors upon the walls of the
cabinet or chamber and connect them with the poles of an electric generator capable
of producing currents of high potential (or of transforming currents of low potential
into those of high potential and upon the face of these conductors L arrange a series
of small points or brushes so that static discharge may take place and so add to the
ozone in the cabinet or chamber and further influence the body of any person
within the cabinet or chamber.
When used for such as therapeutic purposes I sometimes arrange within the
cabinet or chamber an exercising apparatus whereby the lungs and chest &c. of any
person using the apparatus may he exercised. The exercising apparatus may take
the form of the chest and lung exercising pump shown diagramatically in the
accompanying drawing or it may be any of the known forms of exercising apparatus
at present in use.
Sometimes I find it convenient to so arrange the exercising apparatus that by
means of it the operator may work the generator, such for instance as a frictional or
influence machine, for producing the electrical discharge.
One form of construction of my apparatus which I find well suited to therapeutic
purposes is shown diagramatically in the drawing where
Fig. 1. by diagram shows a side elevation of an ozonized cabinet.
Fig. 2. is a cross sectional view of the same.
Fig. 3. is a longitudinal section of a modification showing also exercising apparatus
arranged within the cabinet.
Fig. 4. is a detail view to be referred to.
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a is the cabinet. the door to the same. is the inlet air passage controlled by
slide d. is the adjustable air exit or ventilator controlled by cord is the
electric generator. being the conductors connected with the terminals g g' of
the sparking apparatus g. This sparking apparatus is shown as consisting of a
platinum needle g suspended from a wire or other stiff metallic connection" g and
hanging centrally over the inner mouth of the air inlet passage e. On the top of this
mouth which is formed with a circular rim e¹ is a thin ring of platinum foil'g' (best
seen in the detail plan view Fig. 4.) which is connected by a conductor to the
terminal. The generator being in operation passage of electricity takes place
between the parts y³ and g³ in the form of a cone of electric sparks. All air entering
the cabinet through the inlet e must pass through this cone and is thereby highly
ozonized. is a chair on which a patient my sit. ii are electric conductors having
points or brushes and are insulated from all parts of the cabinet but are connected
by wires to a generator of electricity . from the points or brushes electric
discharges take place thus further ozonizing the air in the cabinet and exercising
Birect electric influence upon the patient.
In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the air inlet passage is placed beneath the
floor a¹ of the cabinet a on which floor is placed a platform having a grating or
other opening through which the air ozonized by the sparking apparatus g cuters
the cabinet. The platform & supports an exercising apparatus which consists of an
upright post m the top of which m² forms the fulcrum for lever to one end of
which is attached by cord a weight carriage running in the inclined guide way q.
To the other end of the lever are attached cords r provided with handles.
The patient grasps these handles and pulling them downwards causes the weight
carriage containing weights, which may be varied as required, to ascend the guide
way. Having reached the limit of the pull the descent of the weight carriage
brings the handles to their former position. is an upright pillar or other post which
may be used for the support of the patient if required. The other parts of the
apparatus are substantially the same as described in Figs. 1 and 2.
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It is sometimes convenient to so arrange the position of the air inlet passage or
passages that the electric discharge may take place in the immediate neighbourhoo
of the patient--for instance it may be placed at a higher level than that shown in the
drawing or it may be in any other suitable position relative to the floor or walls of
the cabinet or chamber.
In other cases where for exercise or other purposes

page_text: considerable floor space is required the inlet may be placed beneath. the floor, a
grating or other suitable opening allowing the ozonized air to pass into the cabinet
or chamber. Or may employ a rigid or flexible covering to envelop the sparking
apparatus and as a continuation of the air inlet, and which shall surround the
sparking apparatus thereby being capable of conducting the ozonized air direct to or
near to the nostrils and mouth of the patient.
Although I have here described one particular arrangement of apparatus I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to such particular construction of
cabinet or chamber or to the special form of sparking apparatus or to the special
form of exercising apparatus. The generator of electricity may also be of any
suitable kind such as a frictional or influence machine or an induction coil and may
be situate either inside or outside the cabinet or chamber and operated by any suitable
means mechanical, chemical or thermal or in any other convenient manner such as the
action of the patient in using the exercising apparatus.
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. The combination of a cabinet or chamber having adjustable inlet and outlet air
passages with a generator or generators of electricity and a sparking or other
discharge apparatus for the production of an ozonized atmosphere, substantially as
set forth.
2. The combination of a cabinet or chamber having adjustable inlet and outlet air
passages, a generator or generators of electricity and a sparking or other discharge
apparatus for the production of an ozonized atmosphere with a means or apparatus
for exercising the body or portions thereof and if required operating thereby the
electric generator, substantially as set forth.
3. The combination with either of the arrangements referred to in claims 1 and 2
of a system of electrical conductors affixed to the walls of the cabinet or chamber
and connected to a generator as and for the purposes substantially as set forth.
Dated this 8th day of November 1889.