IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINFECTING APPARATUS
Year: 1885

page_text: We, JAMES ROBERTSHAW and JOHN TIMOTHY TURNER, both of Siimpson Street,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinists and Manufacturers of Sanitary
Apparatus, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DISINFECTING APPARATUS" to be as follows:-
It consists, first, of a coni-cylindrical vessel or pan made of suitable material.
Round the rim of this pan is a channel or gutter, and inside it at a short distance
from the rim is suspended by means of supports or of brackets a metal plate, wire
disc, or wire crossbars, or other suitable plate.
This is used in the following manner :-
A cake of sulpher or other disinfectant is placed inside the metal pan, upon the
suspended plate, the rim round the outside of the vessel is filled with water and
the disinfectant lighted. As the sulpher or other disinfectant melts under the
action of the heat, it drops to the bottom of the pan, and being held together by
the narrow bottom, continues burning, thus forming a double burner; any
fragments of ignited sulpher which may fall over the side of the pan, are caught in
the gutter or channel and extinguished by the water it contains.
This pan is placed in the centre of the floor upon a support which we construct
in the following manner.
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We first take a stand, made with three or more legs, jointed together at one end.
Through the centre of the joint slides a rod or tube, which can be secured at any
height by means of a suitable tightening arrangement. At the top end of this rod
are three or more arms extending at right angles to the rod, upon these the pan
fixed by suitable fastenings which will allow of a lamp or gas jet being placed
beneath the pan bottom if required. Or the pan may be suspended from a gas
bracket or other convenient support in the apartment or place it is desired to
disinfect.

page_text: We, JAMES ROBERTSHAW and JOHN TIMOTHY TURNER, both of Simpson Street,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machinists, and Manufacturers of Sanitary
Apparatus, 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:-
It consists first, of a coni-cylindrical vessel or pan, made of suitable material.
Round the rim of the pan is fixed a channel or gutter, and inside the pan at a short
distance from the rim is suspended by means of supports or brackets a metal plate,
wire disc, wire crossbar, or other similar support.
This is used in the following manner :-
A cake of sulpher or other disinfectant is placed inside the metal pan, upon the
suspended plate or other support. The rim or gutter round the outside of the pan
is filled with water and the disinfectant lighted.
As the sulpher or other disinfectant melts under the action of the heat, it drops
to the bottom of the pan, and being held together by the narrow bottom, continues
burning, thus forming a double burner, any fragments of ignited sulphur which
may fall over the side of the pan are caught in the channel or gutter and
extinguished by the water it contains.
Or the sulphur may be placed at the bottom of the pan, and a pan or vessel
containing carbolic acid placed over it upon the suspended plate, the heat of the
burning sulphur, causing the acid to give off its gas.
The pan may be either suspended from a gas bracket or other convenient support
in the place or apartment it is desired to fumigate and disinfect, or it may be
placed in the centre of the room upon a support which we construct in the
following manner.
We first take a stand, made with three or more legs, jointed together at one end.
Through the centre of the joint slides a rod or tube, which can be secured at any
height by means of a suitable tightening arrangement. At the top end of this rod
are three or more arms, extending at right angles to the rod, upon these the pan is
fixed by suitable fastenings which will allow of a lamp or gas jet being placed
beneath the pan bottom if required.
In order that the foregoing may be better understood we send herewith a sheet
of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a section, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 an elevation, of
the apparatus, In all the Figures, a indicates the pan, the channel or gutter,
c the internal support, and d the narrow bottom.
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
1st The apparatus or pan, substantially as described and shown herein before and
in the accompanying Drawing, for the purpose set forth.
2nd A pan or vessel, either coni-cylindrical or otherwise, with a channel or gutter
round the rim, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore and in the
accompanying drawing, for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 3rd A pan
or vessel, either coni-cylindrical or otherwise with an internal
support, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore and in the accom-
panying drawing, for the purpose set forth.
4th A pan or vessel, either coni-cylindrical or otherwise, with a channel or gutter
round the rim, and an internal support, substantially as described and shown.
herein before and in the accompanying drawing, for the purpose set forth.
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JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicants.