Specification of George Nye : apparatus for administering injections.

  • Nye, George.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of George Nye : apparatus for administering injections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / Apparatus for Administering Injections. \ LETTERS PATENT to George Nye, of No. 18, Mount Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Surgical Instrument Maker, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for Administering! Injection in a con¬ tinuous Stream, also applicable as an Eye Douche and other Purposes.” Sealed the 21st February 1862, and dated the 26th August 1861. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Nye at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26 th August 1861. I, George Nye, of No. 18, Mount Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, 5 Surgical Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven¬ tion for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Administering Injection in a continuous Stream, also applicable as an Eye Douche and other Purposes,” to be as follows :— This Invention has for its object the obtaining a continuous stream of water 10 or other fluid and consists of a metallic reservoir of convenient size to contain the fluid to be used, and is furnished with an injection tube and stop-cock, which tube turns upon a joint for the purpose of regulating its position and convenience for use; upon the top of the reservoir is affixed a vulcanized india-rubber bottle or ball fitted with air valves. By compressing the bottle 15 or ball air is forced into the reservoir and the fluid is thereby projected in a