Affections, and other Maladies.
Year: 1886

page_text: Affections, and other Maladies.
I GEORGE HENRY COOPER of N° 46 Chapel Street Edgware Road in the
County of Middlesex Rent and Debt Collector 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 comprises :-
Firstly-A wooden tray about 11 inches deep and as long and wide as an
ordinary single bed or bedstead-The tray is filled in even to the sides, or spread
to a flat surface with cork or cork pieces set in pitch and tar whilst warm, or in
any other adhesive, thus forming a tesselated cork slab or bed (see Figure 1).
Secondly-Two coverless wooden or metal boxes about 18 inches deep; as long
as the said tesselated cork slab is wide, and as broad as 3rd of the length of the said
slab each box coated inside with tar or other fumigant and having a cross piece
of wood or metal extending from end to end of its length, whereon to sustain the
said slab 2 or 3 inches above the said boxes, so that the tar fume or other fumigant
may have free egress-The boxes are raised on feet 2 or 3 inches from the floor for
the draft to pass under (see Figure 2).
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Thirdly-Or boxes of wood or metal or wood and metal, but no cross pieces and
with or without lids, or top and side apertures overlaid with perforated zinc, wire
netting or wire gauze (see Figure 3).
Fourthly-Two covered or coverless wire boxes 3 inches less in all dimensions
than the boxes previously described with projecting ends or wires at each corner,
including top and bottom corners, so as to secure a clear space between the exteriors
of the interior boxes and the interiors of the exterior boxes described in Figures 2
and 3 (see Figure 4).
Fifthly-A wooden tray identical with that in Figure 1 except that cork shavings
are used instead of cork or cork pieces-the adhesive secures the lowest layer to
the bottom and the upper layers remain loose and elastic and have over them a
tick covering so forming a soft cork bed or slab (see Figure 5).
Figure represents the cork slab in Figure 1 or that in Figure 5 resting on cross
pieces at head and foot 2 or 3 inches above the boxes in Figure 2, and Figure 7
represents them resting on the boxes in Figure 3.

page_text: The interior wire boxes (Figure 4) are used inside the boxes shown in Figures 2
and 3.
Cork is used herein for its innate warmth and as a non-conductor and tar and
pitch for adhesiveness and sanitary fragrance.
What I claim is:
1. The formation and use of the said hard slab or bed of wood and cork or cork
pieces tesselated, and of the said soft slab or bed of wood and cork shavings, both
in combination with pitch and tar or any other adhesive (see Figures 1 and 5 in
accompanying Drawing).
2. The formation and use of the coverless or covered boxes of wood or metal or
wood and metal coated or not coated inside with tar or any other fumigant (see
Figures 2 and 3 in accompanying Drawing) in combination with the interior wire
boxes described in Figure 4 of the accompanying Drawing.
3. The construction and application to wood or metal boxes or wood and metal
boxes of interior wire boxes or wood and wire boxes for fumigation or fumigants
(see Figure 4 in accompanying Drawing).
DL: 00th do of Anvil. 1996