IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING FLUIDS TO BE USED AS DISINFECTING DEODORIZING OR D TRAYALY A ARNOLDA
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Conway Scott of Belfast in the County of Antrim in
Ireland Civil Engineer for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR VAPORIZING FLUIDS TO BE USED AS DISINFECTING DEODORIZING OR
D
TRAYALY A ARNOLDA
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Conway Scott at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1882.
CONWAY SCOTT of Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland Civil Engineer.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING FLUIDS TO BE USED AS DISINFECTING,
DEODORIZING OR OTHER SANITARY AND MEDICAL AGENCIES.
I employ a covered bowl or chamber made of iron, tin, zinc, copper, porcelain or
other similar material, and having a funnel or pipe leading to the interior through
a suitable perforation by means of which the fluid to be employed is introduced,
and the vapour created by heating such fluid issues for the sanitary or medical
purpose intended to be effected.
I environ the top edge or cover of the bowl or chamber with a rim in order to
control or prevent the escape of any fluid, which, when heated, may overflow at
the funnel or pipe, and I provide some perforations on the top or cover through
which such overflowed fluid will reenter the bowl or chamber.
The heating of the fluid may be effected over an ordinary. gas jet, stove or lamp,
by the aid of a gallery or frame formed as a socket for the bowl or chamber, and
fitted to the gas burner stove or lamp; or the bowl or chamber may be supported
upon a stand containing or enclosing a lamp or stove to heat the fluid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Conway Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th September
1882.
CONWAY SCOTT of Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland Civil Engineer
'IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR VAPOURIZING FLUIDS TO BE USED
DISINFECTING, DEODORIZING OR OTHER SANITARY AND MEDICAL AGENCIES "
AS
My said invention has reference to the application of vapourized fluids to be
employed for the purpose of disinfecting or deodorizing and purifying or making
innocuous buildings, ships and apartments or compartments and clothes, bedding
or other articles which may have been rendered infectious, contagious, or otherwise
dangerous and unwholesome or offensive by the presence of diseasegerms or of
diseased, deleterious, or nauseous persons, animals' or matters or to be inhaled or
injected for the purpose of reducing and removing inflammation or congestion or
other ailments or to be otherwise used as Sanitary and Medical agencies.
The apparatus which I have constructed for these purposes consists of a covered
bowl or chamber made of iron, tin, zinc, copper porcelain or other similar material
and having a funnel or pipe leading to the interior through a suitable perforation
in the top or cover by means of which carbolic acid or other fluid to be employed
is introduced and the vapour to be created by heating such fluid issues for the
Sanitary or Medical purpose intended to be effected
I environ the top edge or cover of the bowl or chamber with a rim in order to
control or prevent the escape of any of the fluid which when heated or in the act
of filling may overflow at the funnel or pipe and I provide some perforations in
the top or cover through which such overflowed liquid will reënter the bowl or
chamber.
The heating of the fluid may be effected over an ordinary gas jet or a stove or oil
or spirit lamp by aid of a gallery or frame formed as a socket for the bowl or
chamber and fitted to the gas burner, stove or lamp. And in order to prevent the
flame catching the liquid I employ a piece of wire gauze netting attached to or
fitting in the gallery or frame below the bowl or chamber and through which the
heat only of the flame will pass and for the purpose of concentrating the heat I
enclose the gallery or frame and gas jet or lamp in a metal, tin, glass or porcelain
tube, cylinder or case perforated round or opposite the gas jet or lamp for the free
access of air and I set such tube, cylinder or case upon a metallic plate or disc
which is fitted to the gas arm or nozzle or suspended from the top of the gallery
or frame or laid on the ground or a table or other stand.
By another arrangement I support the bowl or chamber in a metal frame
furnished below with a conical or curved metallic or wire gauze cup which will
intercept the flame and prevent the liquid catching fire and furnished also with
extending arms or hooks or a flanged rim or ring which will catch or fit upon or
into a tube, cylinder or case containing a lamp or stove or a moveable gas jet and
perforated and set upon a metallic plate or disc as before mentioned.
And for the application of my invention to the process of inhaling or injecting
the vapour generated in the manner I have described I attach an India rubber or
other flexible tube to the neck of the funnel or pipe before men:
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the opposite extremity of such tube with a nozzle or mouth piece of the usual form
and I fix into the bowl or chamber a thermometer to register the heat which is
required for such process
Having now described the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I would have it to be understood that I do not claim the

page_text: lusive use of bowls or chambers and galleries or frames except when the same
constructed and arranged specially and employed in the manner hereinbefore
cribed nor do I claim the use of gas burners, stoves or lamps, funnels or tubes,
es, plates or rims, gauze netting or cups or of any of the separate mechanical
ts which form the compound automatic apparatus employed by me but I
im
First. The use of a covered bowl or chamber constructed and employed
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described
Secondly The use of a gallery frame or stand constructed and employed
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and
Thirdly. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the
compound automatic apparatus above mentioned constructed and applied
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described
In witness whereof I the said Conway Scott have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
CONWAY SCOTT (19)