Means for Using Certain Chemicals, Drugs, and Perfumes for Therapeutic, Disinfecting, Antiseptic, and Perfuming Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 10th Feb.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means for Using Certain Chemicals, Drugs, and Perfumes for
Therapeutic, Disinfecting, Antiseptic, and Perfuming Purposes.
JOHN MORRIS of Cliddesden, near Basingstoke in Hampshire Manufacturing
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A combination admixture or blending of the chemical, drug, or perfume is
made with the substance known as gutta percha or any substance of a like nature
and moulding the resultant products into suitable forms and suitably puncturing
for air passage as respirators for the purposes of medicinal respiration or by any
mechanical or other means rolling cutting or otherwise extending and dividing the
aforesaid resultant product into sheets or films which sheets or films may be
perforated for the passage of air currents and may be divided in any proportions
agreeably to and for their utilization for the purposes above recited or the sheets
and films may be superimposed on any fabric or layered as an internal core between
two sheets of fabric suitable to the purpose and in either case the compound
sheeting sheetings or films may be punctured or otherwise to the end of using
them as aerobic disinfectors antiseptic agents or for perfuming purposes or as bed
sheeting and the like for therapeutic disinfecting and antiseptic purposes as above
recited.
a L 1 of abs1803
JOHN MORRIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means for Using Certain Chemicals, Drugs, and Perfumes for
Therapeutic, Disinfecting, Antiseptic, and Perfuming Purposes.
1 JOHN MORRIS of Cliddesden near Basingstoke in Hampshire Manufacturing
Chemist 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 :-
I employ as pure gutta percha as possible as a basis. This is finely shredded
and in a perfectly dry condition before submitting it to the action of the materials
with which it is to be combined admixed or blended. Suitable vessels of iron or
copper which should be tin lined and provided with pressure valves eduction
pipes and fitted with agitators for the purpose of mixing their contents are used.
Thermometers are fitted to the inside of these vessels with the scale register for
temperature brought thro' the covertures. The chemicals and drugs I use for com-
bining, mixing or blending are any of the essential oils possessing therapeutic disin-
fecting and antiseptic properties or possessed of the necessary aromas for perfuming
purposes but principally eucalyptus firwood hop and wintergreen oils together with
thymol & menthol I also combine carbolic acid and iodine with the gutta percha.
But I take power to use any therapeutic disinfecting antiseptic and perfuming
principle capable of utilization with the means here described. The combination
of these drugs and chemicals takes place with the gum usually at their vapour
points and in all cases such combination is facilitated by the use of the agitator.
It is essential that the process should be prolonged at a few degrees below the
vapour points of the varying ingredients of the admixtures. As regards the
respective proportions of the base namely the gutta percha and the drug or

page_text: chemical that will depend whether the resultant product is to be applied as a
therapeutic agent by way of the respiratory organs or to be used as an aeroidal
agency for disinfection, antiseptic and perfuming purposes. In the cases of
firwood and eucalyptus oils terebene and the like for inspiratory purposes the
proportions are from twenty five to forty per centum of the total weight of the
resultant product. But with carbolic acid hop and wintergreen oils thymol and
menthol used for inhalatory purposes does not exceed fifteen per centum of the
resultant product. For aeroidal disinfection antiseptic and perfuming purposes
-varying percentages may be employed compatable with a due blending of the
respective materials. After the materials as above described have been subjected
to the aforesaid treatment the resultant products are run off from the vessels and
by means of suitable moulds and presses are stamped out as respirators duly
provided with air passages through their substance or the resultant mass is
subjected to pressure under polished steel rollers into sheets or films and these
sheets or films are subsequently acted upon by cutting dies mounted roller fashion
whereby they are duly perforated or the sheeting after passing from the steel roller
is superimposed on any suitable material by means of a hot pressure roller and is
afterwards perforated in the manner before described or and lastly the sheets or
films after passing from the polished steel rollers may be layered as an internal
-core between two sheets of any suitable fabric by means of a hot pressure roller
and afterwards perforated in the manner above described. The vessels in which
the combination admixture or blending takes place I prefer having of a small
capacity and to have several in use. These vessels may be constructed on the lines
of Fig. 5. which is in section A being the combining mixing or blending vessel
made of boiler plate and tin lined and provided with the agitator C. The
agitator C consisting of a central shaft of wrought iron carrying a series of
arms a a &c. and stepped at the base of the vessel A as at D and is carried
upwards through the stuffing box E centrally fixed on the coverture P of the
vessel A. The agitator C is worked by any convenient motive power. Through
the coverture P a high grade thermometer is fitted by means of the small stuffing-
box G in such manner that the bulb shall remain clear of the mass of materials
under treatment in the vessel A whilst providing that the scale register is duly
apparent above the coverture P. There is also provided the eduction tap H
which I prefer to be of white metal. This tap carries a thread and by means of a
white metal union a leaden pipe is screwed thereon which pipe is carried to any
convenient condensing arrangement. At the lower part of the vessel A the mass
of materials is after treatment delivered by removing the solid plug K by means
of an iron rod carried through the bore M of the ball L. The vessel A is
surrounded by the steam jacket B made of boiler plate having the steam entry at N
and exhaust pipe at O. The exhaust pipe at O is provided with a safety valve.
In working this apparatus the stuffing box E on the coverture P is eased so as to
permit the cover P to slide upwards on the shaft C by means of any suitable
mechanical device such as for instance a pulley and counterweight. The materials
are then filled into the vessel A and the cover lowered and properly secured.
Steam at a low pressure is then admitted to the steam jacket B and the pressure
steadily increased according to the indications of the thermometer, and the condition
of the inner contained materials as evidenced by the resistance offered to the motion
of the agitator. When the agitator is found to be working freely the tap H is
opened and the steam pressure gradually decreased. The mass may be delivered
through the apperture secured by the plug K at temperatures below the boiling
'point of water.
The dies I employ for the purposes of moulding and the die punch for per-
forating the respirators (of which Fig. 1. is a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 a
transverse section) are two in number and one of which namely the punching die
is represented in section by Fig. 3 where B is the lower die wrought in steel and
bored into numerous cylindrical channels as at N for the reception of the steel
punches M. A is the respirator laying on the bed of the die. On this lower

page_text: e B the guides C are turned at right angles with the upper surtace
hich secures an accurate adjustment and motion of the upper die D by means of
e circular bore P. The upper die D is in like manner with the die B bored with
ylindrical channels for traverse by the punches M and are in exact line with the
wer bores on the die B. The die B is of steel. The steel punches M and the
unch passages are cylindrical and may vary in dimensions and the punches have
ircular heads somewhat larger than the bore passages so as to lift on raising the
ie D. The die D has worked on it the two guides E at its upper surface and the
xtremities of the guides carry the nuts F for the purpose of arresting the inde-
endent ascent of the press block G made of cast iron and bored at O for sliding
n the guides E. H in the press block is the bore for attachment to any suitable
ress power arrangement. The action of the mechanism for punching the respirator
s of the following nature the composition as before described having been shaped
n the form of the respirator A by a die the parts of which are identical with
those of the puncturing die Fig. 3. with the following exceptions that D & B
Fig. 3 are not pierced with channels for punches and the press block G is firmly
On the descent
bolted to the upper die D by means of the nut F and the guide E instead of being
smooth has a thread worked on it is placed on the lower die B.
of the press block G the upper die D accurately adjusts to the upper surface of
the respirator A the punches M being forced up into the clear way I between the
upper die D and press block G and in the progressive descent of the block G
the punches M are forced through the respirator A into the tubular channels N.
By this method a clean flat surface is secured to the respirator.
For extending the aforesaid materials into sheets or films I employ the usual
well known methods when dealing with gutta percha and its congeners but for
piercing the material products I employ the following method. A cast iron cylinder
of which Fig. 4. B is a section is bored and recessed at regular intervals as C
usually at distances of one inch. Hollow steel punches A are fitted and shouldered
as at C in the cylinder and these protrude at the periphery at regulated distances.
A cylinder F having a reciprocal motion with the cylinder B is fitted at its
circumference with a lining of ebonite E. The materials to be pierced are fed
through the interspace of the cylinders B & F by a system of feed rollers the last
of the series before the materials enter the cutters to be a damping roller. The
materials are removed by any suitable cylindrical frames.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what
I claim is :-
1. The combination admixture or blending of the aforesaid and the like
therapeutic disinfecting antiseptic & perfuming principles with gutta percha or
O any gum like substance of a like nature as a means in combination with the claims
number two and three for therapeutic disinfecting antiseptic and perfuming
purposes.
2. The combination admixture or blending of the aforesaid and the like
therapeutic disinfecting antiseptic principles with gutta percha or any gum like
45 substance of a like nature moulded in suitable forms and provided with holes
punctured through their substance as respirators for the purpose of medicinal
inspiration.
3. The combination admixture or blending of the aforesaid and the like
disinfecting antiseptic and perfuming principles with gutta percha or any gum
50 like substance of a like nature sheeted and perforated as above described for
aeroidal disinfection antiseptic and perfuming purposes.
1 1 of November 1893.
JOHN MORRIS.
JOHN MORRIS.