AND APPARATUS ARRANGED IN COMBINATION WITH STOVES AND FIRE PLACES FOR HEATING VENTILATING AND GENERATING MEDICINAL VAPOURS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard George at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th February 1882.
"IMPROVED
RICHARD GEORGE of Tufnell Park in the County of Middlesex
MEANS AND APPARATUS ARRANGED IN COMBINATION WITH STOVES AND FIRE
PLACES FOR HEATING VENTILATING AND GENERATING MEDICINAL VAPOURS"
This Invention relates to the application arrangement and combination with
heating and ventilating stoves and tire places of apparatus containing sea moss sea
weed or other like products of the sea together with sea or other water in order to
generate and diffuse medicinal vapours in the room where such apparatus is placed
to serve as an equivalent for sea air for the benefit of invalides and others.
For this purpose I find it advantageous in accordance with one part of my
Invention to pass a stream of air through a stove known as Georges Calorigen and
for which Patents were granted to me and dated respectively the 11th October
1867 No 2853 and the 13th February 1868 No. 485 such air being brought from
without the building and warmed by gas or other means. On the top of the stove
within a dish shaped vessel or otherwise I place an arrangement of wirework or
perforated metal or material to support an evaporating dish containing sea or other
water, in which sea weed has been steeped. Around this 1 place rock work shells
or other materials to assist in arranging the wet sen weed in such a manner that
the warm air cannot pass into the room until after coming in contact with the
under side of the weed consequently all the deleterious particles floating in the air
are here filtered or intercepted as the gelatinous condition of the weed or inoss
prevents their passage acting in fact as the nostril acts to the lungs while the
odour and other medicinal properties are exuded and the atmosphere of the room
is soon found to resemble in overy respect that of the coast on a genial morning.
The sea weed or moss should be removed from time to time and dipped in sea or
salt water this will remove impurities and keep it in working order. The sea
weed or moss may be combined with fibrous material and thus be kept moist by
capillary attraction.

page_text: When this apparatus is in use the temperature by the thermometer will be
found to be lower but will feel to the occupants of the room warmer and more
genial particularly to those who suffer from cold' extremities as the stimulating
properties of the sea weed or moss accelerate respiration and circulation.
When not required the apparatus may be removed and placed in any other
convenient part of the room, it will then form an ornamental object in which a
vase for plants flowers, fish globe cage or other ornament may be substituted for
the evaporating dish.
It will be evident that apparatus of the character previously described may be
arranged to act in combination with other arrangements of stoves fire places or
other means of warming in accordance with my Invention which admit warm air
into a room or building therefore I do not limit the application of my improvements
to any particular form of stove or fire place