Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 21st Dec.. 1888
I ADOLPH POITEVENT of Gainesville in the County of Hancock in the State of
Mississipi, United States of America Laborer 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:
My invention relates to improvements in that class of pillows whose contents have
a natural balsamic odor, produced either artificially by impregnating neutral material
with balsam, fat-sap, crude pine tar, and the like or by the natural material itself,
such as seed pine straw, balsamic shavings, fat-sap-pine shavings, crude pine-tar and
the like.
By "fat sap" I mean the interior of the yellow pine tree which is impregnated
with a resin and differs from what is known as the "dry yellow pine" which has no
resin. The "fat-sap-pine" shavings are merely the strippings of the wood or centre
of the resinous pine, removed by means of a drawing knife or other appliance. This
resinous pine has a formation upon its branches which are designated "seed" and the
pine straw" is simply the leaves of the tree often termed pine needles" which
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when gathered from the tree are strongly impregnated with resin.
The purpose of pillows of this class is to operate beneficially upon the lungs, throat,
or nasal organs of the persons using them. The inhalation of the balsamic odors given
off by the contents of the pillow brings relief to the sleeper and invigorates and
refreshes him.
In designing a pillow of this character it has been my purpose to arrange the
materials composing it in such manner as to retain their original distribution or
location with respect to one another, even after long continued use, and to confine the
lumps or small pieces of crude sap or tar, which it is found desirable to employ, to the
centre of the pillow, thereby preventing them from rising to the top thereof, where
they would cause discomfort to the user.
A further purpose of my invention is to so construct the pillow-casing that it may
be readily attached, if desirable; to a chair.
Referring to the accompanying drawings illustrative of my invention:-
Figure 1 represents a rear view of my improved pillow as attached to a chair-
back.

page_text: Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section of the same upon the line 22 of Fig. 4.
Figure 3 represents a cross section thereof upon the line 3 3 of Fig. 4.
Figure 4 represents a plan view of the under side of my improved pillow detached
from chair.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.
A, represents the pillow casing, of any desired material and shape. The contents
of the pillow are arranged as follows:
An under layer of seed-pine straw, B, of convenient thickness, is first inserted in
the pillow. Upon this is laid a bag of gauze, C, containing shavings, D, of fat-sap
pine impregnated with crude pine-tar, and having interspersed among them lumps or
nodules E of fat-sap taken from the yellow pitch-pine of the kind found in billy
sections of the country, where such pines come to maturity. A top layer, F, of balsamic
shavings and fat-sap-pine shavings covers the bag C and constitutes the cushion inter-
mediate between the lumps and the portion of the pillow upon which the head rests.
The material within the gauze bag contains the stronger or most potent elements of
the pillow contents, and, by reason of being thus inclosed within the outer layers, the
odor or aroma given off by such inner contents is less rapidly dissipated than if they
were distributed generally throughout the body of the pillow. Their effects moreover,
upon the sleeper are of a milder and more gentle character than if they were located
in closer proximity to the surface. My arrangement therefore secures a pillow which
retains its original properties for a very considerable length of time, whose effects are
mild and uniform, and which affords at the same time entire cease and comfort to the
head resting upon it. Upon the bottom side of the pillow I sow a flap, G, preferably
of the shape illustrated in the figure, and the free end of this flap I connect with an
elastic band, H, attached at each end to the pillow-casing. By means of this
construction I am enabled to conveniently attach the pillow to a chair, as illustrated
in Fig. 1.
I am aware that it is not new to construct mattrasses with internal sacks filled with
medicated substances surrounded by hair, wool, cotton, or other stuffing usually
employed for mattrasses. Neither is it new to provide ordinary air-bag head rests
and pillows with straps for securing them to the backs of seats. I therefore broadly
disclaim such devices.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The combination, with a pillow, of the kind specified, of the broad back flap secured
to the back of the pillow at one end and to a transverse elastic strap at the other end,
.substantially as and for the purposes herein described, and as illustrated by the Drawings
annexed.
Data L
1000