AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FOMENTATIONS AND OTHER EXTERNAL REMEDIES TO THE THROAT
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Sadler Kennedy, of Queen's Road, Bays-
water, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR APPLYING FOMENTATIONS AND OTHER EXTERNAL REMEDIES TO THE THROAT."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Sadler Kennedy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th October 1862. .
I, WILLIAM SADLER KENNEDY, of Queen's Road, Bayswater, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHED OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FOMENTATIONS AND OTHER
EXTERNAL REMEDIES TO THE THROAT," to be as follows:-
The object of the improvements is, first, to apply to throat fomentations
any desirable amount of heat and to sustain it at an equal temperature for any
length of time required, keeping up constant moisture without wetting the
patient.
The Drawing annexed shews the side view of a semicircular metallic
chamber (or of other material)-(A, A,) fitted to the throat. Before being
applied it is filled with hot water through the feeder (B). By means of the
soft thick flannel padding attached to the inside top and bottom (C, C, C,) the
patient is kept from undue heat and receives a constant supply of comforting
warmth. Previous to its application the pad is liberally sprinkled with either

page_text: hot water or any emollient that may be medically advised so that the lubrication
of the throat and the attendant heat and moisture are constant and sustained.
The projection at the base (D) resting on the chest, is to extend the heat to
the pit of the neck for the purpose of arresting incipient bronchitis, and in
painful glandular affections it also furnishes a needful support for the head
when the patient is in an upright position. The padded lining is attached
to the chamber by straps and buttons (E) and can be instantly detached for
cleansing and immediately put on again if necessary. The same process applies
to poultices. As will be seen the loops at the ends (F), are to receive attach-
inents (G, G,) which are passed round the neck and tied in front as a neckcloth
adjusted by the patient to his own comfort, whether sitting or in a recumbent
position:
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Willian Sadler
Kennedy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st-May-1863...
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS: SHALL COME, I WILLIAM
SADLER KENNEDY, Queen's Road, Bayswater, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Sadler Kennedy, Her special licence, that I, the said
William Sadler Kennedy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Sadler Kennedy, 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FOMEN-
TATIONS AND OTHER EXTERNAL REMEDIES TO THE THROAT," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Sadler Kennedy, my executors
or administrators by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, 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 on or
before the First day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Sadler Kennedy, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, that is to say:-
The objects of my Invention are first to apply to throat fomentations any
desirable amount of heat and moisture, and secondly to sustain the temperature
for any length of time required without wetting the patient.
The Drawing annexed shews the side view of a semicircular metallic
chamber or one made of earthenware, china, glass, or other material and thus
fitted to the form of the throat (A, A). Before being applied it is filled with
hot water through the feeder (B). By means of the soft thick padding of
flannel or spongio piline attached to the inside, top, and base (C, C, C), the
patient is protected from undue heat and receives a constant supply of com-
forting warmth and moisture, the padding having previously been sprinkled
with warm water. The breadth of the chamber is increased towards the base
so as to extend the heat to the pit of the neck. The padded lining is attached
by straps and buttons (E, E,) and can be instantly detached for cleansing.
The loops at the ends (F) are to receive the attachments (G, G,) which are
passed round the neck and tied in front. I claim the introduction of a semi-
circular chamber of hot water applied to the throat thus fitted to its form and
padded as described with the other arrangements as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Sadler Kennedy have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
W. S. KENNEDY. (L.S.)