An Improved Electro-medical Apparatus.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 21st Jan. 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Electro-medical Apparatus.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of 52 Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved electro-medical apparatus designed to enable
persons to inhale or breathe air which is charged with or subjected to the action of
electricity.
My improved apparatus comprises a tube, of ebonite, glass, porcelain, earthenware,
gutter percha, india-rubber or other suitable material which is a non-conductor or a
bad conductor of electricity. In this tube is arranged to slide in suitable guides a
metal rod designed to transmit the electricity. One end of this rod is suitably shaped
to adapt it for connection with the source of electricity. The other end of the said
rod is adapted to receive one or other of a number of differently shaped electrodos.
The said rod is provided with suitable means for moving or adjusting it end wise in
its guides. For example the rod is formed with rack-teeth with which is geared a
pinion arranged to be rotated by a suitable handle outside of the tube. This handle
may be of glass, celluloid, ebonite, porcelain, or other suitable insulating material.
The aforesaid electrodes are so constructed that they can be readily attached to and
detached from the said rod. There are say four of the said electrodes and they are
provided respectively with one, two, three and four teeth or points; there may,
however, be any other desired number of the said electrodes and some of them may
have a larger number of teeth or points if desired.
Dated this 94th day of October 1889
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Electro-medical Apparatus.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of 52 Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Electrician, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved electro-medical apparatus designed to enable
persons to inhale or breathe air or other gases charged with or subjected to the action
of electricity.
An important feature of my said invention consists in the combination, with a
tube suitable for the inhalation of air or other gases of suitable means whereby the air
or gas passing through the said tube may be charged with or subjected to the action
of electricity.
I find it advantageous to construct my apparatus as follows, viz. :-I make the said
tube of ebonite, glass, porcelain, earthenware, gutta-percha, India-rubber or other
suitable non-conducting or insulating material. In this tube is arranged to slide in
suitable guides a metal-rod designed to transmit the electricity.
ог more
One end of this rod is suitably shaped to adapt it for connection with the source of
electricity. The other end of the said rod is adapted to receive one
differently shaped discharging points or electrodes. The said rod is provided with
suitable means for moving or adjusting it end wise in its guides. For example the said
rod is formed with rack-teeth with which is geared a pinion arranged to be rotated

page_text: by a suitable handle outside of the tube. This handle may be of glass, celluloid,
ebonite, porcelain, or other suitable insulating material.
The aforesaid electrodes are so constructed that they can be readily attached to, and
detached from the said rod.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a vertical central section of my improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the same, and
Figure 3 shows various forms of discharging points or electrodes hereinafter
described.
A is the tube which is provided with a suitable handle B, and which is provided
at one extremity with an enlargement A' adapted to serve as a mouth-piece, while the
other extremity A2 is open to admit the air to be inhaled.
is the sliding rod for conducting the electricity. This rod is provided with a
toothed portion or rack c, with which is geared a pinion D for moving the said rod
to and fro in sockets or guides a¹ formed with or attached to suitable cross-pieces or
supports a, a secured in the tube A.
The pinion D is carried upon a shaft or spindle B₁ adapted to be rotated by the
handle B. E, E are different forms of electrodes adapted to be attached to the
rod C.
The rod C is provided at one extremity with a ring C¹ or other suitable device for
connecting it with a source of electricity, and at the other extremity with a screwed
portion or projection c² adapted to receive the threaded portion or socket e of the
electrode E.
There are say four of the said electrodes formed of brass or other suitable conducting
material and they are provided as shown respectively with one, two, three and
four teeth or points; there may, however, be any other desired number of the said
electrodes of any other suitable shape or configuration, and more than one electrode
may, if desired, he attached to the rod C. The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The device is held to the month of the patient and air is inhaled through the same,
this air entering the orifice A² of the tube A and passing through the space within the
said tube around the rod C and electrodes E which are in connection by the ring C¹
with a source of electricity, such as a Wimshurst or other electrical machine. In
passing through the space around the said electrodes, the air becomes subjected to
the action of the electricity and is thereby rendered effective for the purpose required.
The intensity of the action may be regulated by moving the rod C by means of the
handle B and the pinion D towards or away from the mouth-piece A¹.
It is obvious that the construction of the apparatus may be modified in some respects
without departing from the nature of my said invention, the characteristic feature
being the provision in an inhaling device, of means whereby the air passing through
the same may be subjected to the action of electricity and the intensity of such action
may be easily regulated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it understood
that I claim 3-
First. An electro-medical inhaling apparatus, whereby air or other gas charged
with or subjected to the action of electricity can be breathed or inhaled.
Second. An electro-medical apparatus comprising a tube of insulating material
.formed with a suitable mouth-piece and with an orifice for the admission of air or
other gas, and a conducting rod arranged within the said tube and provided with one
or more electrodes for the discharge of electricity into the said air or other gas, for
the purposes above specified.
Third. An electro-medical apparatus such as I have hereinbefore described, provided
with suitable means for regulating the intensity of the electrical discharge as above
specified.

page_text: Fourth. An electro-medical apparatus for the inhalation of electrified air or other
gases, constructed substantially as described with reference to the accompanying
drawing and operating as, and for the purposes, set forth.
Bar DEAN &
C. B. HARNESS.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.