An Improved Instrument for Cleaning the Tongue.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Cleaning the Tongue.
I, JOSEPH KING of 51 Bunkers Lane Staincliffe Batley in the County of
York, out of business, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
"
An instrumentj made of gold, silver, aluminium, or any other metal or hard
substance. The head of it (or scraper,) to be of a circular, oval, or section of a
circular form; and of different convenient sizes, with a handle of about two inches
and a half in length.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Cleaning the Tongue.
JOSEPH KING of 51 Bunkers Lane Staincliffe Batley in the County of York,
out of business 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 :—
An instrument made of gold, silver, Afgan silver, aluminium or any other metal
or hard substance. The head (or scraper) to be of a circular, oval, or section of
a circular form, and of different convenient sizes, with a handle of about two
inches and a half in length, of any suitable material.
Sizes of the scraper see Figure A A.
Size and shape of the head, see B.
The ferule see C.
It is a thin peice of metal or hard substance from a quarter of an inch to
three eights of an inch wide, bent so as to form a circle, oval, or section of a
circular form; the two ends meeting in a ferrule in which a handle is rivitted, and
the cleaner or scraper is hollow inside to collect the mucus &c.
In breathing the atmospheric air, it becomes carbonic acid gas on its expiration,
which settles on the tongue as carbonic acid; and if allowed to go back, disorders
the stomach and throws the whole system out of order. Therefore the tongue
cleaner is used to scrape it off first thing in the morning, when cleaning the teeth
and rincing the mouth with water.
It is made of a thin peice of metal or hard substance, about a quarter of an inch
wide at each end, and encreasing to about three eighths of an inch at the centre.
It is bent to form a circle, oval or section of a circular form; and ends in a
ferrule, in which a handle is fixed; and the part termed the "scraper" is made a
little hollow inside, to hold the mucus or moisture.
Afgan silver is made by Fredrick Whitehouse manufacturer of the new metal,
registered, Lion Works Warstone Lane Birmingham.
The tongue cleaner is used to scrape and clean the tongue with, and the sizes of
the heads are from an inch by 3 quarters to an inch and a half, by one inch.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is
1st. The sizes and form of scraper see figure sent with Specifation A A
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is
1st. The sizes and form of scraper. see figure sent with Specifation A, A
2nd. Sizes and shape of head, Figure B.
3rd. The ferrule, Figure C.
Dated this 5th 1
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