A New or Improved Appliance for Holding Pastilles, Medicines, Antiseptics, and the like
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for Holding Pastilles, Medicines,
Antiseptics, and the like.
1, PAUL FOUQUIER of 49 Weymouth Street, Portland Place in the County of
London, Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple but efficient appliance for
holding lozenges, pastilles, medicines, antiseptics, and the like in the mouth in such
manner that the lozenges or the like can be held there for a considerable length of
time while for example the pastilles, medicine, or the like are either gradually
dissolved or inhaled.
The appliance is composed of a box or case with perforated cover (hinged or
otherwise) in which the material is placed; to the base of the box or case an india
rubber or caoutchouc "sucker" is applied by rivetting or in any other convenient
way. The shape of the "sucker " may vary but may be conveniently recessed or
cup shaped. By means of this india rubber or caoutchouc sucker the box or case
is attached with the utmost facility to the palate and the material contained therein
passes through the holes formed as aforesaid in the lid and so through into the
system of the user.
By this invention, tuberculosis and diseases of the respiratory passages, such as
asthma, also dyspepsia, infectious diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever, may
be thus treated. The appliance may be employed with advantage by athletes,
cyclists and others.
Dated this d
ST11000
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for Holding Pastilles, Medicines
Antiseptics, and the like.
I, PAUL FOUQUIER, of 49 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, in the County of
London, Doctor of Medicine, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple but efficient appliance for
holding lozenges, pastilles, medicines, antiseptics, and the like in the mouth, in such
manner that the same can be retained there for a considerable length of time,
while, for example, the pastilles, medicine, or the like are either gradually dissolved
or inhaled.
The appliance is composed of a box or case with perforated cover (hinged or
otherwise) in which the material is placed, and to the base of the box or case an
india rubber or caoutchouc "sucker" is applied by rivetting, or in any other
convenient way.
My invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, wherein at Figs. 1 to 6 are illustrated examples of the devices constructed
according to my invention and referred to in the following description. The letters
of reference thereon marked are similar for the corresponding parts in the several
illustrations, which for the purpose of clearness are drawn larger than the apparatus
would usually be constructed.

page_text: A is the box or case, B is the cover or lid with perforations B', and C is the
sucker affixed by rivetting or other suitable means beneath the base of the box A.
At Fig. 1 the box A is shewn by perspective view with the lid removed; the box
may be constructed of suitable metal, vulcanite, or other material, and the lid B
may be retained in position (when the box is closed) by friction, or, as shewn at
Fig. 2, by a pin on the box and a bayonet slot in the lid. At the views Figs. 3
and 6, the lid B is shewn hinged to the box proper; at Fig. 4 the lid is made with
somewhat inclined sides, and thus closes tightly on the box; at the vertical
sectional view, Fig. 5, the lid is screwed on.
It will be evident that the box may be circular in plan, as at Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5,
hexagonal as at Fig. 4, or of other convenient shape, the lid or box always being
perforated. I do not limit myself to the modes for fixing the lid, or to the shape
of the box. The shape of the sucker C may vary, but is conveniently cup shaped
or recessed; three shapes are shewn by way of example, as the conical, Fig. 5, the
cylindrical, Fig. 6, and the bell-shaped, Fig. 4. Instead of, or in addition to the
perforations, wire gauze may be used.
By means of this india rubber or caoutchouc sucker C, the box or case A is
attached with the utmost facility to the palate, and the material, such as a lozenge,
indicated at D, Fig. 1, contained therein, passes through the holes B¹ formed as
aforesaid in the lid B, and so through into the system of the user.
By this invention, infectious diseases, such as cholera and typhoid fever, also
diseases of the respiratory passages such as asthma, also tuberculosis, dyspepsia,
and other diseases, may be treated in what I may call a continuous manner, as
distinguished from the administration of antiseptics or medicines intermittently.
The apparatus is at the same time very useful to orators, singers,--who wish in
foggy weather to protect their voices from accidents; to sailors who wish to be
free from scurvy or fevers; to work-people who in their work breathe unwholesome
dust and to cyclists and other athletes obliged to exert at a certain moment a
considerable amount of energy; this apparatus permits by means of exciting and
nutritious lozenges to obtain the desired effect.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An appliance for holding pastilles, medicines, antiseptics, and the like,
composed of a perforated case or box with or without gauze for containing the
aforesaid substances, having an india rubber or caoutchouc "sucker" fixed to same
for attaching the apparatus to the palate, whereby the contents of the appliance
are administered in a slow, certain, and continuous manner, substantially as
described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The appliance for administering pastilles, medicines, antiseptics, and the like,
all constructed, arranged, and acting substantially as described and illustrated with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of August 1893.
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for Applicant.