IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND PROJECTING FLUIDS EITHER FOR SURGICAL, SANATORY, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Robertson, of 22, Bachelor's Walk, in the
City of Dublin, Surgical Instrument Maker, and Richard Barter, of
Saint Anne's, Blarney, in the County of Cork, Ireland, Doctor of Medicine,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND
PROJECTING FLUIDS EITHER FOR SURGICAL, SANATORY, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Robertson and
Richard Barter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with.
their Petition, on the 23rd April 1862.
We, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, of 22, Bachelor's Walk,. in the City of Dublin,
Surgical Instrument Maker, and RICHARD BARTER, of Saint Anne's, Blarney,
in the County of Cork, Ireland, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING
AND PROJECTING FLUIDS EITHER FOR SURGICAL, SANATORY, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
apparatus suitable for distributing and projecting disinfecting or other fluids in
the wards of hospitals or for any other purpose where it is required to project
à jet or jets of fluid for the distribution or diffusion of the same, and consists
in the employment for that purpose of an air-tight strong vessel provided with
two or more stop-cocks. One of these cocks is removeable for the purpose of
enabling the vessel to be partially filled with the fluid to be distributed, and the
other cock or cocks are connected with pipes which pass down inside the
vessel to receive the bottom thereof. These last-mentioned cocks are so made
as to enable a rose jet or other form of distributing nozzle. to be attached

page_text: thereto. When the vessel is supplied with the fluid, the stop-cock is replaced
and a small air pump is connected thereto for the purpose of forcing air into
the vessel, which, when fully charged, is ready for use, the pressure of the air
on the fluid forcing it through the jets when the corresponding cocks are
opened.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
.
by the said Alexander Robertson and Richard Barter in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON, of 22, Bachelor's Walk, in the City of Dublin, Surgical Instru-
ment Maker, and RICHARD BARTER, of Saint Anne's, Blarney, in the County
of Cork, Ireland, Doctor of Medicine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant' unto us, the said
Alexander Robertson and Richard Barter, Her special license that we, the
said Alexander Robertson and Richard Barter, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Alexander Robertson and
Richard Barter, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND PROJECTING FLUIDS EITHER FOR SURGICAL,
SANATORY, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Alexander Robertson and Richard Barter, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of them, should particularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Alexander Robertson and Richard
Barter, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-

page_text: panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say:
Our said Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
apparatus suitable for distributing and projecting disinfecting or other fluids in
the wards of hospitals or for any other purpose where it is required to project
a jet or jets of fluid for the distribution or diffusion of the same.
The accompanying Drawing represents a side elevation of this apparatus.
It consists of an air-tight strong vessel A, provided with two or more stop-
cocks B, B, and C. One of these cocks C is removable for the purpose of
enabling the vessel to be partially filled with the fluid to be distributed, and
the other cock or cocks B, B, are connected with pipes D, D, which pass
down inside the vessel to near the bottom thereof, as shown in dotted lines.
These last-mentioned cocks are so made as to enable a rose jet a or other form
of distributing nozzle to be attached thereto. When the vessel is supplied
with the fluid the stop-cock C is replaced, and a small air pump E is connected
thereto for the purpose of forcing air into the vessel, which, when fully charged
is ready for use, the pressure of the air on the fluid forcing it out through the
jets when the corresponding cocks B, B, are opened. When the vessel is
fully charged with air the cock C is shut and the air pump removed..
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, we would observe in conclusion, that what we consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is the general construction and arrange-
ment of apparatus for distributing and projecting fluids either for surgical,
sanatory, or domestic purposes, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Robertson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the said Alexander Robertson,
in presence of
TOWNLEY W. HARDMAN,
Solr., 22, Bachelor's Walk, Dublin.