Year: 1886

page_text: We, JAMES LAW CRAWFORD of 146 West Regent Street, in the City of Glasgow,
Solicitor, and ROBERT LEES, of 113 Saint George's Road, Glasgow, aforesaid,
Physician and Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide in a neat and convenient form for
carrying in the pocket an inhaler for use in effecting the cure or alleviation of
asthma, catarrh and bronchial or similar affections by the inspiration of air which
has been caused to pass through and become impregnated with a pharmaceutical
compound or medicament proper to the disease under treatment.
The improved inhaling apparatus constituting the invention consists of a small
tubular or similarly shaped casing which at one end is either bifurcated to adapt it
for inhaling through the nostrils or is flattened to fit the mouth. The body of the
casing is filled or partially filled with an absorbent such as blotting paper or fibrous
material by preference in the form of a honeycomb or series of small tubes which
while retaining a sufficient quantity of the remedy used, will permit of the passage
therethrough of the air to be inhaled along with it; or the curative compound
employed may be fitted within the casing in the form of a porous perforated block
or in a granular form. On the outer end of the casing a perforated cap is or may
be fitted and to such cap the absorbent block or substance may be attached in
order that by removing the cap and withdrawing the absorbent it may be impreg-
nated with a fresh supply of the remedy.
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page_text: We, JAMES LAW CRAWFORD of 146 West Regent Street in the City of Glasgow,
Solicitor, and ROBERT LEES, of 113 Saint Georges Road, Glasgow, aforesaid
Physician and Surgeon 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 object of this invention is to provide in a neat and convenient form for
carrying in the pocket an inhaler for use in effecting the cure or alleviation of
asthma, catarrh and bronchial or similar affections by the inspiration of air which
has been caused to pass through and become impregnated with a pharmaceutical
compound or medicament proper to the disease under treatment. As represented
in elevation at figure 1, in plan at figure 2, in vertical section at figure 3, and in
cross section at figure 4, of the annexed drawings, the improved inhaling apparatus
constituting the invention consists under one modification of a small tubular or
similarly shaped casing A, which is bifurcated or formed with two nozzles a at one
end to adapt it for use in inhaling through the nostrils.
Under another modification as represented in like views by figures 5, 6, 7, and 8
the apparatus consists of a tubular casing which is flattened at a¹ to fit the
mouth.
The body of the casing A is filled or partially filled with an absorbent such as
blotting paper or fibrous material by preference in the form of a honeycomb or
series of small tubes b which while retaining a sufficient quantity of the remedy
used, permit of the passage therethrough, of the air to be inhaled along with it.
Or the curative compound employed may be fitted within the casing in the form
of a porous or perforated block or in a granular form. On the outer end of the
casing a perforated cap may be fitted and to such cap the absorbent block or
substance may be attached in order that by removing the cap and withdrawing the
absorbent it may be impregnated with a fresh supply of the remedy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
The improved inhaler for curative purposes herein described and in part shown
on the accompanying drawings.