AN IMPROVED CHAMBER UTENSIL
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,.
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CHAMBER UTENSIL."
-A communication from abroad by Vernon Rhodes, of Memphis,
in the State of Tennessee, United States of America.
Sealed the 21st February 1871, and dated the 4th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th October 1870.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CHAMBER
UTENSIL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improvement in chamber utensils for the
sick room, and consists in dividing such vessels into two separate com-
partments for the purpose of separating the urine and fæces discharged
therein, the one from the other, in order that the same may be more

page_text: readily inspected by physicians. The partition may divide the vessel
equally or unequally, and it will be obvious that the use of this Invention
in the sick room will enable the physician by examining the discharged
foetid matter and urine separately to trace with facility in a majority of
cases the cause of the complaint of his patient.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CHAMBER UTENSIL," being a communication to me from
abroad by Vernon Rhodes, of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, United
States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say):
This Invention relates to an improvement in chamber utensils for the
sick room, and consists in dividing such vessel into two compartments
for the purpose of separating the urine and feces discharged therein, the
one from the other, in order that the same may be the more readily
inspected by physicians.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is a view in perspective
of the improved chamber utensil, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of
the same.
a is the vessel and b is a transverse partition in the same, and serving
to separate it into two compartments. The partition may divide the
vessel equally or unequally.
It will be obvious that the use of this Invention in the sick room
will enable the physician to examine the discharged fetid matter and
urine separately, and thereby afford an increased facility for tracing
in a majority of cases the cause of the complaint of his patient, a
result which is unattainable where the ordinary chamber utensil is
used.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improved
Chamber Utensil," as communicated to me from abroad, and described
the mode of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, as a new article
of manufacture the chamber utensil provided with a partition in the
manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Third day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.