A LIP RESPIRATOR
Year: 1885

page_text: I GEORGE WILLIAM CLEMENTS of N° 115 Kennington Road in the County
of Surrey Dentist do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A LIP
RESPIRATOR to be as follows:-
The respirator is so vast an improvement on any other hitherto offered to the
public that the inventor considers it will supply a long and much needed want and
will do away with those unsightly appendages that have been hitherto in use, the
material used in the construction of this respirator being such as will enable the
inventor to produce one which will be comparitively invisible the basis used in
the construction thereof being so light and thin that it fits closely over the lips and
admits of sufficient space for the free movement of the muscles of the mouth to
enable the wearer to breath and speak freely. This Respirator can be constructed
upon various kinds of basis such as coraline, vulcanite, coralite, celluloid and other
similar substances and can be produced in any color selected by the intended
wearer. The Respirator is made in the shape or form of the lips instead of the
unsightly pad at present in use, and fitted between the lips is a small metalic
perferated plate covered by a neat and thin material which admits of full and
free breathing power and entirely prevents fogs and impure air impregnating the
lungs.
This Respirator is made from a plaster model made from an impresion taken
from the human mouth oval in shape in form of the lips in which vulcanite or
other similar basis is closely packed and then vulcanized or pressed, after which it
is fitted to shape and polished leaving an apersure between the lips in which is
fitted a strip of perferated plate which slides in grooves between the opening of
the Respirator, the perferated plate is covered with a thin material which admits
of full and free breathing power and entirely prevents fogs and impure air from
impregnating the lungs, fitting so closely over the lips and being so thin that it is
scarsely perceivable and thus is unlike the the thick padded Respirator at present
in use, this Respirator when finished is not thicker than ordinary cardboard, and a
great advantage of this Respirator is that the perforated plate can be taken out of
the grooves and the whole easily and thoroughly cleaned.
Dated this Twenty girth dox of Sentember 1885

page_text: GEORGE WILLIAM CLEMENTS of N° 115 Kennington Road S.E. Dentist in the
County of Surrey 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 improved Respirator which I have invented is very thin and fits close over 5
the lips, allowing sufficient room for the movement of the muscles of the mouth
for speaking and breathing, this Respirator can be made upon any kind of basis
such as coralite, vulcanite zyonite, coraline, celluliod, and other similar basis, being
made flesh color is scarcely to be noticed upon the wearer thereof, it is made in
the form of lips instead of the pad at present in general use. The advantages of 1
this Respirator over all others are many, in the first place appearance and cleanliness
being washable without the slightest injury. The respirator is oval in shape with
a small aperture between the lips in which is fitted a small metalic perforated
plate, covered with a thin material which allows free breathing power and prevents
fog or impure air penetrating the lungs. To obtain this the Respirator is cut into 1
shape from thin sheets of the basis from which it is made, it is then pressed between
two metal-dies and after having thus obtained the shape it is then polished and
the perforated plate fitted into the aperture, it can easily be removed cleaned and
readjusted when required. The Respirator is very strong and impure breath in no
way injuriously affects it. The Respirator is supported by elastic looped over the 2
ears in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. That it is lighter stronger thiner and less cumbersome to the wearer than 2
those in use.
2. That it is cleaner being washable without injury.