Deep Canals in the Bodies of Men or Animals.
Year: 1889

page_text: Deep Canals in the Bodies of Men or Animals.
A communication from abroad by CHELIUS S. PIXLEY, Physician, and JONATHAN
P. PRIMLEY, Druggist, both of Elkhart, County of Elkhart, State of Indiana,
United States of America.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent. Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6-Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 the application of powdered medicines within the male
uretha and consists in a novel construction of the device by which the powder is
applied as hereinafter set forth and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device preparatory to the insertion
of the medicine.
Figure 2 a vertical sectional view of the same.
Figure 3 a vertical sectional view showing the device ready for insertion into the
interior of the diseased part, and
Fiure a detail view.
The object of this invention is to produce a device that will successfully apply a
dry powder to deep canals in the body, and this is accomplished by the construction
which is shown, and which will now be described in detail.
A, indicates a hollow tubular shell open at its ends and preferably, though not
necessarily, made cylindrical in cross section. At the upper end the tubular shell
is provided with an enlarged head B, as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, said head
being made in the form of a funnel and communicating with the interior of the
tubular shell.

page_text: Projecting upward from the enlarged head or funnel B is a cross-bar B₁ which
is tapped to receive a screw (having at its outer end a milled head or crank by
which it may be turned.
When the instrument is to be inserted it is necessary to close the lower end of
the tubular shell, and to secure this result, there is placed within the shell a rod D
shown in Figure 3, said rod being held in place by means of the screw C, as also
shown in said Figure. After the instrument is inserted, the screw is released and
the rod D withdrawn from the tubular shell, the said shell of course remaining in the
canal or passage to be treated.
E indicates an elongated screw or conveyor adapted to be inserted into the tubular
shell after the withdrawal of the rod D, the said conveyor being formed with a
circumferential groove 6 to receive the end of the screw C, this construction per-
mitting the rotation of the conveyor E, and preventing longitudinal movement of the
latter within the tubular shell or case. The powder is placed within the funnel-
shaped head B and is fed or forced through the tubular shell and discharged at
the end thereof by merely turning the conveyor E by means of its milled head or
crank.
F indicates an agitator which is secured to the conveyor E and is adapted to
rotate within the head or cup B and agitate the material therein.
In order to provide for the removal of the screw with its agitator from the case
or shell A, it is necessary to provide the cross bars B₁ with a slot or opening a,
shown in Figure 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me.
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a urethal powder applier, the combination with shell A, of the interchangeable
devices D and E, and a retaining device for the same.
2. In a urethal powder applier, the combination with shell A, of a rod D and a
retaining device for the rod."
3. In a urethal powder applier, the combination with the shell A, of a conveyor E
provided with a groove, and a retaining device permitting rotary motion but not
longitudinal motion of the conveyor.
4. In a urethal powder applier, the combination with the shell A and head B of.
the conveyor E provided with an agitator or stirrer F.
Dated this 4th day of March 1889.