An Improved Respirator and Throat and Lung Protector.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Respirator and Throat and Lung Protector.
I, JUSTUS OSMAN WOODS, of No. 128 East 12th Street, in the City and State of
New York, United States of America, gentleman, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective apparatus, to be
placed and properly secured in the mouth, and under the nose, to charge or
impregnate the air to be breathed through the nostrils, of the person using it, with
medicated vapor, for curative action upon the internal membranes and blood of the
body, and also to prevent, incidentally, the injurious action of the vibrations of the
throat fibres, which is caused by snoring.
Many medicines are best passed directly to the lungs and the blood in inhalation,
rather than through the stomach, which they greatly disturb. If the medicament is
for the throat and lungs especially, it is best drawn to them directly by inhalation.
Respiration should be through the nostrils, and not through the mouth, as the nostrils
are furnished with fine bairs and a mucous coating, which catch the fine unwhole-
some particles, from the air, in breathing; while sleeping the muscles of the jaws
are relaxed, and the mouth opens slightly, so that the sleeper breathes through it
entirely, and the fine unwholesome particies floating in the air are drawn in so that
the mouth and throat become dry and there is produced the annoying phenomenon
of snoring which injures the fine fibres of the throat by the violent vibrations.
My invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts, fully set forth
and claimed in this specification.
In order that persons skilled in the art may understand, construct and use my
invention, I will proceed to describe it, referring to the drawings, in which
Fig. 1. represents the head of a person with my Medicinal Respirator applied over
the mouth, by bands which pass around the hond and under the chin, and it also
shows in dotted lines a non-respirator.
Fig. 2 represents a thin flexible sheet of celluloid or other suitable material with a
light elastic thread or hook attached to it, to be placed in the mouth between the
lips and the teeth, and held in place by securing it to the teeth or the medical
respirator bag.
Fig. 3 is a partial front view of a nose and mouth with the position which the
celluloid plate, shown in Fig. 3, assumes when in the mouth, shown in dotted lines.
Fig. 4 represents a front view of the respirator bag or pockets and is fitted with
vessels holding medicaments.
A, is the head of a person with my respirator and non-respirator applied to it.
B, is the nose; C, is the mouth; D, is a respirator bag and is fitted with a vessel or
vessels for holding medicaments; E, an elastic strap which buckles around the head
above the ears, and to which is attached the respirator bag; F, is a similar strap to
which is attached at the bottom side the respirator bag, and buckles about the head or
neck or below the ears; G, is an elastic strap which stretches under the chin. All
these straps serve to secure the respirator bag in place over the mouth. This respirator
bag or pocket D, is composed of longitudinal strips and vertical strips (as shown in
Figs. 1 and 4) the said vertical strips crossing the longitudinal strips and forming n
pocket to hold medicaments. H, is a thin flexible piece of non-absorbent material,
such as rubber or celluloid placed in the mouth when breathing through the nose
alone is desired. This piece H, is rounded off at the top (as shown in Figs. 1, 2
and 3) so as to fit between the lips and teeth, and a fine elastic thread or wire a is
fastened to it; to this thread is attached a hook or loop & for the purpose of securing
it to the teeth or respirator bag D.

page_text: By these devices I secure perfect medication of the pure air inhaled and prevent
the vitiated breath from affecting the medicament, when exhaled.
In operation the respirator bag being placed as shown in Fig. 1 with the strip II,
placed in the mouth (and secure to said bag or to the teeth by means of the hook or
wire loop) and the dry or liquid medicament placed in the respirator bag, the month
being closed by pieco H, t. user must breathe the vapor of the medicament through
the nose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The Hygienic Respirator and Lung and Throat Profector, consisting of the
respirator hag, composed of the longitudinal strips, the vertical strips crossing said
longitudinal strips and forming a pocket to hold a inedicament and the straps E,
Fand G, whereby the bag is held to the head, and the Boxidu non-absorbent mouth
piece placed in the mouth between the lips and the teeth to prevent breathing
through the mouth, all combined and arranged to operate substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2. The mouth piece II, composed of a thin sheet of celluloid or other flexible
non-absorbent material formed as described, to be placed in the mouth between the
lips and the teeth to prevent breathing through the mouth and a thread or wire
attached to said mouth piece whereby it may be attached to the teeth, substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 18th day of March 1890.