AN IMPROVED INHALING APPARATUS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED INHALING APPARATUS."-A commu-"
nication from abroad by Edward Reed Gardner, of New Bedford,
:
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th April 1874.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
5 Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby déclare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED INHALING APPARATUS," a
communication, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel and simple apparatus for relieving
catarratial, bronchial, and other affections of the throat and lungs, and
which may be conveniently carried in the pocket and be always available
when required in any emergency.

page_text: To carry the said Invention into practice I construct an apparatus as
follows: I take a tube of glass or other suitable material about one half
inch in its internal diameter and about four inches long. In this tube I
insert a number of very small tubes of porous paper or other obsorbent
material, which tubes may be enclosed within lining of similar paper or
other material applied internally to the said glass or other tube. Each
end of the latter is provided with a stopper, and these stoppers should be
attached to the tube by a small cord to prevent their loss. I introduce
into the said tube any liquid suitable for the purpose of inhalation, which
liquid will fill the small paper or other tubes and be absorbed in the
paper or other material of which they are formed, and any air passing
through them will be saturated or impregnated with the vapour thereof.
This vapour is drawn with the air into the throat and lungs by applying
the mouth to one end of the tube, both ends being first unclosed by
removing the stoppers. For convenience in carrying the inhaling
tube I provide a small box of wood or other suitable material formed
with two chambers, in one of which the said tube is placed, while the
other serves for the reception of a bottle containing a supply of the liquid
for inhalation, with which liquid the said tubes may be replenished from
time to time as required. The said box is also fitted with a wire dropper
or other device for facilitating the introduction of the liquid in proper
quantities in the tube.
I wish it understood that although the above dimensions of the tube
are the most convenient for the purpose of my Invention, yet I do not
limit myself to them, but may make the said tube as much larger or
smaller as may be thought desirable, and I make the said tube of glass,
porcelain, metal, or other like material; or it may be partly of metal
with its ends formed of glass or porcelain. I prefer however to form it.
entirely of glass or porcelain, as such materials are least affected by the
action of the liquids used for inhalation.
Instead of using small internal tubes of paper I may employ sponge
or other similar absorbent substance in the said tube for holding the.
liquid, but I prefer the said small tubes, as they permit a very free.
passage of the air and its thorough saturation with the vapour of the
said liquid when it is drawn through the said apparatus by inhalation.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED INHALING APPARATUS," a communication to me from abroad
United
by Edward Reed Gardner, of New Bedford, Massachusetts,.
States of America, Merchant, upon the condition (amongst others).
that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors. or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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 a novel and simple apparátus for adminis-
tering medical inhalations for the relief of catarrhal, bronchial, and
other affections of the throat and lungs, and which is designed to be
carried in the pocket, and may be conveniently so carried properly

page_text: filled or charged with the inhaling liquid, so that it will be available
when required in any emergency.
To carry the said Invention into practice I construct an apparatus as
follows, that is to say:-I take a tube of glass or other suitable material,
such as porcelain, metal, gutta percha, or hard india-rubber, the said
tube being about one half inch in its internal diameter, and about four
inches long. In this tube I insert a cylinder somewhat shorter than the
tube and formed of porous paper or other absorbent material enclosed
within a lining of similar paper or other material applied internally to
the said glass or other tube. Extending entirely through this porous
cylinder is a number of very small ducts or passages formed by dividing
the said cylinder radially or otherwise, or by forming the central portion
of a number of small tubes surrounded by an envelope of the same or
ŝimilar material. Each end of the aforesaid glass tube is provided with
a stopper, and these stoppers should be attached to the tube by a small
cord to prevent their loss. I introduce into the said tube any liquid
suitable for the purpose of inhalation, which liquid will fill the small
ducts, passages, or tubes, and be absorbed in the paper or other material
of which they are formed, and any air passing through them will be
saturated or impregnated with the vapour thereof. This vapour is
drawn with the air into the throat and lungs by applying the mouth to
one end of the tube, both ends being first unclosed by removing the
stoppers. For convenience in carrying the inhaling tube I provide a
small hox of wood or other suitable material formed with two chambers,
in one of which the said tube is placed, while the other serves for the a
reception of a bottle containing a supply of the liquid for inhalation,
with which liquid the said tubes may be replenished from time to time
as required. The said box is also fitted with a dropper for facilitating
the introduction of the liquid in proper quantities in the tube. The
said dropper is a piece of small twisted wire bent at a right angle, or a
nearly so, it is placed in the bottle containing the liquid, and when the
said bottle is held in the proper position the liquid will drip from the
bent end of the wire.
I wish it understood that although the above dimensions of the
apparatus are the most convenient for the purpose of my Invention, yet a
I do not limit myself to them, but may make the said tube as much
larger or smaller as may be thought desirable, and I may make the said
tube of glass, porcelain, metal, or other like material, as above stated;

page_text: or it may be partly of metal with its ends formed of glass or porcelain.
I prefer however to form it entirely of glass or porcelain, as such
materials are least affected by the action of the liquids used for in-
halation.
Instead of using a cylinder with internal passages or tubes of paper
I may employ a cylinder of sponge or other similar absorbent substance
in the said glass tube for holding the liquid, but I prefer to use the said
cylinder formed, with the small ducts or tubes, as the latter permit a
very free passage of the air and its thorough saturation with the vapour
of the said liquid when it is drawn through the said apparatus by
inhalation.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
H. J. NOONE,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
WM. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)