IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY FOR DIS- INFECTING AND CURATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Edward Molesworth, of Jeypore, Rajpootana, a
Province in British India, Electrical Telegraph Deptt., for the Invention of
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY FOR DIS-
INFECTING AND CURATIVE PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Edward Molesworth
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th February 1876.
JAMES EDWARD MOLESWORTH, of Jeypore, Rajpootana, a Province in British
India, Electrical Telegraph Deptt. "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION
OF ELECTRICITY FOR DISINFECTING AND CURATIVE PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for the application of electricity
for disinfecting and curative purposes, and consists mainly of a chair with arms,
in or upon which plates are arranged, and another plate in or upon the back, either
or all of which plates can by a depression be put into contact with insulated
conducting wires led up the frame from a battery fitted to the chair to complete
the circuit.
The battery is removable, and is preferably composed of a box containing the
usual negative and positive plates immersed in a bath of sand, sal amoniac,
powdered on the top and wetted with water for charging or exciting purposes.
Instead of the pole plates on the chair being put into electrical contact by a
depression they can be screwed down when desired; and then when a person places
his or her hand upon either of the plates the circuit becomes complete, the human
body acting as the conductor for the earth current.
The strength of the current to be imparted depends upon the number of elements
of the battery put in operation by an attendant; thus he can regulate the electrical
action upon a patient according to the nature of the disease and the disinfecting
desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Edward Molesworth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1876.
JAMES EDWARD MOLESWORTH, of Jeypore, Rajpootana, a Province in British
India, Electrical Telegraph Deptt. "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION
OF ELECTRICITY FOR DISINFECTING AND CURATIVE PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for the application of electricity
for disinfecting and curative purposes, and consists mainly of a chair with arms,
in or upon which plates are arranged, and another plate in or upon the back, either
or all of which plates can by a depression be put into contact with insulated
conducting wires led up the frame from a battery fitted to the chair to complete
the circuit.
The battery is removable, and is preferably composed of a box containing the
usual negative and positive plates immersed in a bath of sand and sal ammoniac,
powdered on the top and wetted with water for charging or exciting purposes.
Instead of the pole plates on the chair being put into electrical contact by a
depression they can be screwed down when desired; and then when a person places
his or her hands upon the plates the circuit becomes complete, or the human body
may act as the conductor for the earth current.
The strength of the current to be imparted depends upon the number of elements
of the battery put in operation by an attendant; thus he can regulate the electrical
action upon a patient according to the nature of the disease and the disinfecting
desired.
The manner of carrying my Invention into effect is clearly represented in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings, which show a chair A with pole
plates B, B, on the arms C, C, and another plate D on the back E.
F is a battery
temporarily secured under the chair; the battery shown is contained in a box, and
is composed of the usual plates, from which conducting wires a, a, a, lead to the
pole plate connections.
The depression of the plates from any cause puts the several wires into contact
for the current to pass, according to the pairs of plates touched, the body of the
sitter forming the medium from one plate to the other for the completion of the
circuit; thus supposing a person to be seated in the chair the whole or any part of
his body may be effected by the electric current in proportion to the number of
pairs of the battery plates put into contact.
The pole plates on the chair may be fixtures if desired.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved apparatus for the
application of electricity for disinfecting and curative purposes, as described and
substantially as shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Edward Molesworth, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July One thousand eight