Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for use in Producing and Inhaling Medicinal Vapours and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for use in Producing and
Inhaling Medicinal Vapours and the like.
I, AUGUST BECKER, of 30, Grand Quai, Geneva, in the Republic of Switzerland,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to an improved apparatus adapted for in inhalation of
medicinal vapours and the like in a manner more agreeable and complete than was
possible with apparatus hitherto constructed.
The apparatus may assume various sizes and various shapes.
The apparatus which is intended to be placed on a suitable heating device (gas or
alcohol lamp) which is not described as it may be of any ordinary description con-
sists of a closed tank in which there are provided two sieves and a central ascension
tube rising from the lower conical sieve. The tea leaves or other material which
are to constitute with the steam the vapours to be inhaled are placed on the upper
horizontal sieve. The tank is filled with water up to the level of this sieve and the
conical sieve is intended to bring the steam resulting from the sinking of the water-
level into the ascending tube to which it is attached. The latter is provided with
two discharge tubes projecting downwards and through which the boiling water
mixed with steam falls on the tea leaves etc., placed upon the horizontal sieve.
The
The apparatus is provided with a handle and the cap or cover is connected to the
tank by means of any suitable joint. In the neck of the cap there is arranged a
valve and the lower end of a tube entering into an inverted cone to which it is con-
nected. A part hemisphere is secured upon this cone above a sieve which extends
across the top of the cone, two conical sieves being adapted to enter into said henii-
sphere and forming a continuation of the tube connected to the tank cover.
inner cone is preferably of wire gauze and the outer cone is of porcelain. There is
provided on the inverted cone a tubulure to which a flexible tube may be secured
by means of an intermediate piece. The inverted cone and the hemisphere are both
surrounded by an outer sphere in which cold water may be introduced through an
opening in order to cool the steam entering the hemisphere through the pipe on the
tank cover a discharge-pipe for the cooling water is also provided.
If the steam to be inhaled is moreover to be saturated with medicine etc. a supple-
mentary device may be inserted between the tubulure and the flexible tube. "Tho
said device consists of a tube in which a tubular sieve is so arranged that when the
medicine lies between the latter and the wall of the tube the steam coming out of
the tubulure passes through the said medicine before passing out again at the other
end of the tube.
The other end of the flexible tube is secured to a tube connected to a valve box
which is further provided with a second tube to which there is secured a removable
mouth-piece. A non-return valve which is intended to prevent the exhaled air
from passing back to the steam generator is provided in the box. The box is more-
over provided with a valve opening outwards intended to allow the escape of the air
exhaled.

page_text: The mouth piece may assume various shaped according as it is to be put in the
mouth against the mouth or in the nostrils; in the latter case it will be branched
accordingly.
Dated this 15th day of September 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for use in Producing and
Inhaling Medicinal Vapours and the like.
I, AUGUST BECKER, of 30, Grand Quai, Geneva, in the Republic of Switzerland,
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:-
This invention relates to an improved apparatus adapted for the inhalation of
medicinal vapours and the like in a manner more agreeable and complete than was 1
possible with apparatus hitherto constructed.
The apparatus may assume various sizes and various shapes. The accompanying
dr wing shows, by way of example, one way of embodying my invention..
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the main constitutive parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 2 shows the mouth-piece and the valve-box connected with the said appa- 2
ratus by means of a flexible tube, the said mouth-piece being shown in a vertical
position, though it is usually held horizontally while in use.
Fig. 3 shows an additional part which is inserted in some cases between the appa-
ratus shown in Fig. 1 and the flexible tube.
The apparatus shown in Fig. 1 which is intended to be placed on a suitable heat- 2
ing device (gas or alcohol-lamp) which is not shown in the drawing.
A is a closed tank in which there are provided two sieves B and C and an
ascension tube D. The tea-leaves, or other material, which are to constitute, with
the steam, the vapours to be inhaled, are placed on the sieve B. The tank A is
filled with water up to the sieve B, and the sieve C is intended to bring the steam 3
resulting from the sinking of the water-level into the ascending tube D. The latter
is provided with two discharge-tubes d projecting downwards and through which
the boiling water mixed with steam falls on the tea-leaves, etc. placed upon B.
The tank A is provided with a handle a and the cap or cover A¹ is connected to
the tank A by means of any suitable joint. In the neck A² of the cap A¹ there is
arranged a valve, a and the lower end of a tube E entering into a cone F to which
it is connected. A hemisphere G is secured upon the cone F above a sieve f, two
conical sieves g and g¹ being adapted to enter into said hemisphere G. The
cone g is preferably of wire-gauze and the cone g¹ is of porcelain. There is pro-
vided, on one of the cones a tubulure F1 to which a flexible tube H may be
secured by means of an intermediate part or connection F". The cone and the
hemisphere are both surrounded by an outer sphere, I, in which cold water may be
introduced through an opening i in order to cool the steam entering the hemi-
sphere G through the pipe E. is a discharge-pipe for the cooling water.
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4
If the steam to be inhaled is moreover to be saturated with medicine or the like, 4
the supplementary device shown in Fig. 3 may be inserted between the tubulure Fi
and the flexible tube H. The said device consists of a tube J in which a tubular
sieve J¹ is so arranged that when the medicine lies between the latter and the wall
of the tube, the steam coming out of the tubulure F¹ passes through the said
medicine before passing out against the other end of the tube J.
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page_text: The other end of the flexible tube H is secured to the tube of the valve-box K,
which is further provided with a tube to which there is secured a removable
mouth-piece L. The non-return-valve K' which is intended to prevent the exhaled
air from passing back to the steam-generator, is provided in the box. The box is
moreover provided with a valve K2 opening outwards, intended to allow the escape
of air exhaled. The perforated cap of the box K is only intended for shielding
the valve K³.
The mouth-piece L may assume various shapes according as it is to be put in
the mouth, against the mouth or in the nostrils; in the latter case it will be branched
accordingly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An inhalation-apparatus characterised by the combination of a tank A, pro-
vided with sieves B and C and with an ascension tube D, a cover, a pipe E with
sieves such as f g and g¹, provided in a chamber F G surrounded by an outer
chamber I, and a tube F1 for connection of the tube H, substantially as described.
2. An inhalation apparatus of the character described in combination with a
tube as J, containing a sieve as J¹, substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. An inhalation apparatus of the character described in combination with a
valve-box as K, intended to be connected to a mouth-piece and having a non-
return-valve and an outlet-valve substantially as described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete inhala-
tion apparatus substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Data: 1941 dove of Tune 1900