A Protector or Guard for the Chest and Lungs and or Head.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
A Protector or Guard for the Chest and Lungs
and
or
Head.
I WILLIAM BROWN, of 16 Woodlands Terrace Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention is designed to supply a protector or guard for the chest, lungs or
head.
It consists of utilising suitably prepared asbestos material, either alone or
combined or mixed with other suitable material and used either as a lining or pad
or in any other way convenient as a covering or protection for the chest, lungs or
head against the evil effects resulting from exposure to cold, damp or heat.
My invention can be employed practically in the following three ways or in any
other convenient way, namely;
1. As a layer of the asbestos material fixed between or on the linings of vests or
waistcoats, females' corsets or dresses or any other article of apparel so as to cover
all or part of the chest and back or all or part of the back only, but particularly
between the shoulder-blades.
2. The asbestos material may be used either alone or with other material so as
to form a protector of the usual well known shape to cover all or part of the chest
and back or all or part of the back only.
3. The asbestos material may be used either alone or with other suitable
material as a partial or entire lining for the inside of hats, caps, helmets, females'
bonnets or other head-gear or covering for the head.
Dated this 7th May 1896.
WILLIAM BROWN.
A Protector or Guard for the Chest and Lungs
and
or
Head.
I, WILLIAM BROWN, of 16 Woodlands Terrace, Swansea, in the County of
Glamorgan, Merchant, 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 :-
The invention is designed to supply a protector or guard for the chest, lungs
head.
and
or
It consists of utilising suitably prepared asbestos material i.e. either woven or in
the form of millboard or cloth or yarn either alone or combined or mixed with
other material i.e. either silk crape or silk gauze and used either as a lining or pad
or in any other way convenient as a covering or protection for the chest, lungs or
head against the evil effects resulting from exposure to cold, damp or heat.
My invention can be employed practically in the following three ways or in any
other convenient way, namely;
1. As a layer of the asbestos material fixed between or on the linings of vests or
waistcoats, females' corsets or dresses, or any other article of apparel so as to cover
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page_text: all or part of the chest and back or all or part of the back only, but particularly
between the shoulder-blades.
2. The asbestos material may be used either alone or with other material so as
to form a protector of the usual well known shape to cover all or part of the chest
and back or all or part of the back only.
3. The asbestos material may be used either alone or with other suitable
material as a partial or entire lining for the inside of hats, caps, helmets, females'
bonnets or other head-gear or covering for the head.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;
The employment of asbestos material, either alone or combined with other
material, as herein described, in the protection of the chest and lungs and head
against the evil effects of cold, damp or heat.
Dated this 18th day of June 1896.
or
WILLIAM BROWN.