A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT TO BE EMPLOYED IN EXAMINING AND FACILITATING OPERATIONS IN THE THROAT
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT TO BE EMPLOYED IN EXAMINING AND FACILITATING
OPERATIONS IN THE THROAT."-A communication from abroad by Philippe
Othon de Clermont, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 19th January 1866, and dated the 24th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th July 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT TO BE EMPLOYED IN EXAMINING AND
FACILITATING OPERATIONS IN THE THROAT," to be as follows:-
This instrument is composed of two jaws or branches hinged or pivoted to
each other, and constructed as hereafter described and shewn in the annexed
Drawings.
two jaws pivoted:
Figure 1 is a side view of the instrument partly open; Figure 2 is a plan,
of the upper, and Figure 3 of the lower jaw. a, b, are the
to each other at c through the rings f, f¹, formed on them.
The upper jaw a

page_text: is provided with a handle a', and from the point c to the fore end d it is bent
or curved. The fore end carries a reflector e to reflect the interior of the
throat. When the instrument is closed the fore end of the lower jaw is
kept by the action of a spring 9 against the under side of the upper jaw a.
When the instrument is inserted in the mouth the handle is moved and the
jaw a bears against the palate, while the jaw b forces forward the base of the
tongue and exposes the epiglottis. A body of light is directed on to the
reflector, and the space between the jaws of the instrument allows of the
insertion of any other instrument desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that, I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT TO
BE EMPLOYED IN EXAMINING AND FACILITATING OPERATIONS IN THE THROAT,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Philippe Othon de Clermont, of Paris,
France), upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and. in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same, to: be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This instrument is composed of two jaws or branches hinged or pivoted to
each other, and constructed as hereafter described and shewn in the annexed
Drawings.
Figure 1 is a side view of the instrument partly open; Figure 2 is a plan
of the upper, and Figure 8 a plan of the lower jaw; Figure 4 shows the
instrument as in use. a, b, are the two jaws pivoted to each other at c
through the rings f, f¹, formed on them. The upper jaw a is provided with a
handle a¹, and from the point c to the fore end d it is bent or curved. The
fore end carries a reflector e to reflect the interior of the throat. When the
instrument is closed the fore end h of the lower jaw is kept by the action of
& spring 9 against the under side of the upper jaw a. When the instrument
is inserted in the mouth the handle is moved and the jaw a bears against
the palate, while the jaw 6 forces forward the base of the tongue and exposes
the epiglottis. A body of light is directed on to the reflector, and the space
between the jaws of the instrument allows of the insertion of any other
instrument desired.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the new or
improved instrument constructed substantially in manner and for the purpose
herein-before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.