Specification of George Davies : inhaling apparatus.

  • Davies, George.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of George Davies : inhaling apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WAA/WWWX Inhaling Apparatus. LETTERS PATENT to George Davies, of No. 1, Searle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Inhaling Apparatus.”—A communication from abroad by Emile Siegle, of Stuttgart, Wurtemburg. Sealed the 13th October 1864, and dated the 22nd April 1864. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Davies at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petitiofi, on the 22nd April 1864. I, George Davies, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln’s Inn, in the County 5 of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Inhaling Apparatus,” (a communication to me from abroad by Emile Siegle, of Stuttgart, Wurtemburg,) to be as follows :— This Invention relates to apparatus for reducing liquids to the state of an 10 impalpable powder or spray for the purposes of inhalation. Hitherto such apparatus has been made to act by means of compressed air or liquid, and a pair of bellows or a force pump was necessary to compress the same to the required degree before the apparatus would act. By this Invention heated vapours are employed (instead ot compressed air)