IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RESPIRATORS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ernesto Rinzi, of 29, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturing Jeweller, and Alexandre Alfred Berthier, of
13. Sterndall Road, in the said County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for an
"
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RESPIRATORS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ernesto Rinzi and
Alexandre Alfred Berthier at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 28th January 1881.
ERNESTO RINZI, of 29, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing
Jeweller, and ALEXANDRE ALFRED BERTHIER, of 13, Sterndale Road, in the said
County of Middlesex, Gentleman." "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH
RESPIRATORS."
The object of this Invention is to construct or form a respirator that it can be
conveniently carried by the lips of the wearer, and readily adjust itself to suit the
motion of the mouth during articulation; also to be easily placed in position in the
mouth, or be carried in the waistcoat pocket, or be suspended by a cord (elastic or
otherwise) when not in wear.
Our respirator is composed of two flat or nearly flat sides with a rim at one end,
and with a perforated or gauze plate, either in a piece with the sides or attached to
them at the other. The rim is at the open end, and is shaped to fit the inner
portions of the lips of the wearer, the flat portions being held between the lips
with the perforated or gauze end slightly projecting therefrom. The width of the
respirator corresponds with the width of the mouth, or nearly so.
The respirator is hollow, and forms a receptacle for medicated or prepared wool,
cotton, or other fibrous body or material, according to the disease or complaint
from which the wearer may be suffering.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Ernesto Rinzi and Alexandre Alfred Berthier in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th July 1881.
ERNESTO RINZI, of 29, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing
Jeweller, and ALEXANDRE ALFRED BERTHIER, of 13, Sterndale Road, in the said
County of Middlesex, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH
RESPIRATORS."
The object of this Invention is to construct or form a respirator that can be
conveniently carried by the lips of the wearer, and will readily adjust itself to suit
the motions of the mouth during articulation, and which can also be easily placed
in position in the mouth, or be carried in the waistcoat pocket, or be suspended by
a cord (elastic or otherwise) when not in wear.
Our respirator is composed of two flat or nearly flat sides with a rim at one end,
and with a perforated or gauze plate, either in a piece with the sides or attached to
them at the other. The rim is at the open end, and is shaped to fit the inner
portions of the lips of the wearer, the flat portions being held between the lips
with the perforated or gauze end slightly projecting therefrom. The width of the
-respirator corresponds with the width of the mouth, or nearly so.
The respirator is hollow, and forms a receptacle if desired for medicated or
prepared wool, cotton, or other fibrous body or material, according to the disease
or complaint from which the wearer may be suffering..
The annexed Sheet of Drawings clearly represent our Invention. Figure 1 is an
end view; Figure 2, a longitudinal section; Figure 3, a transverse section; Figure 4,
a perspective, and Figure. 5 an elevation of the respirator, looking at the part
which bears against the teeth of the wearer. A is the rim or shield with a slit or
long opening B at about the central portion, or instead of a slit perforations may
be formed if desired.
C is a projecting portion, also perforated, and either in a piece with or attached
to the rim for containing medicated wool or other necessary material, saturated or
not with a chemical liquid, this being held in place by a slip piece D, shown detached
at Figure 6, and in position in Figures 2 and 4.
This slip piece is perforated or formed. with notches for the free passage of the
breath of the wearer, and of the air to his mouth at each respiration. E is, the
rounded end to the projecting portion C, and perforated for the attachment of a
cord or guard to enable the wearer to carry it like an eye glass, or he may carry it
in his waistcoat pocket if desired.
The respirator so constructed may be in one or in more pieces, but preferably in
one, and of tortoiseshell, horn, vulcanite, ivory, bone, glass, china, or any metal
moulded to the shape shown at Figure 4, to fit between the teeth and lips of the
wearer, the rim or shield A occupying a position in the inner side of the upper and
lower lips, and the portion C between the two lips to the front.
By our Invention we dispense with the unsightly respirators at present now in use,
and also with the inconvenient elastic loop cords passing behind the ears, and as
the respirator can at all times be washed it does not become foul, and is of
everlasting wear.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,―
The improved respirator shown at Figure 4 of the annexed Drawings, constructed

page_text: or arranged as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 5 of
the same.
In witness whereof, we, the said Ernesto Rinzi and Alexandre Alfred Berthier,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the above named Ernesto Rinzi
and Alexandre Alfred Berthier,
in the presence of
SYDNEY R. POLLARD,
80, Coleman St, E.C.,
Solicitor.
E. RINZI.
(L.S.)
A. A. BERTHIER. (L.S.)