Year: 1888

page_text: 1, RIVERS DUNNETT of Bristol Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Bronchitis kettles of the ordinary construction, are usually provided with removable
lids, or screw stoppered apertures, wherethrough liquid is poured into the kettle; and
further, the extended pipe or spout is so connected, that the kettle cannot be
employed for ordinary purposes.
According to my invention, 1 take an enclosed vessel, and near the top thereof,
I direct inwardly and downwardly, an open-ended ferrule, or short pipe, preferably
taper, and 1 outwardly surround the said pipe or inlet, by a funnel, which forms the
means for the filling of the vessel, with water.
The funnel entrance, thus described, extends obliquely upwards to some three or
four inches above the top of the kettle, and has as aforesaid, within its lower end,
an inwardly directed socket, wherein the tapered inner end of the spout, fits, while
the other, or outer end of the spout, is provided with a fan shaped spreader, out of
which, steam generated within the kettle, passes.
Instead of the inner end of the extended pipe or spout, which is directed out**
wardly and-obliquely-from the top of the kettle, fitting within a socket, it may be
inside or outside screwed, and taking upon, or within an inside, or upon an outside
screwed socket, or its equivalent.
The funnel may have directed outwardly near its lower end, a spout, through
which liquid is poured outwardly, when the vessel is used as an ordinary kettle.
In employing the vessel as a bronchitis kettle, steam generated is passed through
the spout, and from thence into the atmosphere, which becomes humid; and in

page_text: converting the said bronchitis kettle into an ordinary kettle, it is only necessary
to remove the detachable spout from the socket at the bottom of the funnel as
aforesaid.
I, RIVERS DUNNETT of Bristol Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Ironmonger, 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:
Bronchitis kettles of the ordinary construction, are usually provided with removable
lids, or screw stoppered apertures, wherethrough liquid is poured into the kettle;
and further, the extended pipe or spout is so connected, that the kettle cannot be
employed for ordinary purposes.
According to my invention, I take an enclosed vessel, and near the top thereof,
I direct inwardly and downwardly, an open-ended ferrule or short pipe, preferably,
taper, and I outwardly surround the said pipe or inlet, by a funnel, which forms the
means for the filling of the vessel with water.
The funnel entrance thus described, extends obliquely upwards to some three or
four inches above the top of the kettle, and has as aforesaid within its lower end,
an inwardly directed socket, wherein the tapered inner end of the spout fits, while
the other or outer end of the spout is provided with a fan shaped spreader, out of
which steam generated within the kettle, passes.
Instead of the inner end of the extended pipe or spout, which is directed out-
wardly and obliquely from the top of the kettle, fitting within a socket, it may be
inside or outside screwed, and taking upon or within, an inside, or upon an outside,
screwed socket, or its equivalent.
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The funnel may have directed outwardly near its lower end, a spout, through
which liquid is poured outwardly, when the vessel is used as an ordinary kettle.
In employing the vessel as a bronchitis kettle, steam generated, is passed through

page_text: the spont, and from thence into the atmosphere, which becomes humid; and in
converting the said bronchitis kettle into an ordinary kettle, it is only necessary
to remove the detachable spout from the socket at the bottom of the funnel as
aforesaid.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation, a bronchitis
kettle, constructed and arranged according to my said invention. Figure 2 reprosents
the same without the bronchitis arrangement, so that the vessel as in figure 2
admits of being used as an ordinary kettle for the heating and boiling of liquids for
various purposes.
It will be seen that the kettle or vessel is a lidless one, and that the spout for
pouring, constitutes the means whereby the said vessel is or may be filled.
Figure 3 shows a bronchitis kettle, with the tubing or steam distributing lengths
directed horizontally instead of obliquely as in figure 1.
The direction of the said length is occasioned by a supplementary bend or
junction at the near end of the inner length, socketing within the socketed neck
of the spout, whose open top is made funnel and jag shaped, of which the lid is
presented outwards.
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Figure 4 represents partly in elevation, and partly in section, the said bronchitis
kettle on a larger scale, and from this it will be seen that the ventilating or air
outlet tube may be directed to the inside crown of the vessel, or to the rear inside
back part, as indicated by the dotted lines.
Figure 5 shows a plan of figure 4, and figure 6 is a section of the spreader or
rose at the extreme end of the steam distributing tube or length, while figure 7 is a
vertical section of figure 6.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several
figures..
a is a hollow vessel, or lidless kettle, 6 is the handle part thereof, and c the spout,
whose neck or throttled inner part is socketed, wherein the taper inner end d
of the tube length d of the steam distributor e, with spreader at the end of a
secondary length d², fits.
The spout which is funnel or jug mouthed, is employed for both pouring, and for
filling, when used as an ordinary kettle; and as a socket for the affixing of the
distributor tube lengths, when used as a bronchitis kėttle.
The spreader e is made box and hopper form, and with the mouth enclosed by a
reticulated or perforated sliding lid or cover e³, for retaining herbs or medicated
matters within it. Thus, steam issuing through the distributor lengths, passes through
the herbs in the spreader, and from thence into a room, so as to render the atmosphere
thereof, humid, or charged with moisture and essence from the herbs or medicated
matters.
I wish it to be understood that the perforated lid of the distributor, is retained in
its closed position, by a catch at one end, and that the distributor tube may be made
up of one, two or more lengths, united together as described.
The kettle is also provided with an air outlet tube g, with the inner end directed
to the inside crown of the kettle. Or instead of a short tube being directed inwardly,
a longer length may be employed, and extended to near the inside bottom of the
back of the vessel, as indicated in dotted lines, and marked g¹.
The upper end of the tube d' which is connected to the bottom of the spreader, is
continued inwardly at d³, and thereby prevents condensed steam from returning
down the conducting tube again into the kettle.
Although I have represented that the kettle is a lidless one, yet the spout may if
necessary be provided with a removable or hinged lid.
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-
First. Providing lidless kettles or like vessels, with a hopper or jug-shaped spout,
which acts in common for both filling and pouring, as set forth.

page_text: Secondly. A bronchitis kettle, consisting of a closed vessel, with a hopper shaped
spout, whose inner or necked part is made socket-wise, wherein the inner end of
a length of steam distributing tubing fits, substantially as described and set forth.
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Thirdly. Providing lidless kettles having a single aperture or spout, with an air
exit tube g, g', substantially as described and set forth.
Fourthly Forming the spreaders of bronchitis kettles, box like, and with an
enclosing lid of perforated metal, substantially as described and set forth.
Fifthly. The combination with the spreader e of a bronchitis kettle, of an inner
tube extension d³, as and for the purpose as set forth in figures 6 and 7.
Lastly. The improvements in the construction and arrangement of the parts of
kettles, as decribed and set forth in the several figures.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1889.