Specification of Richard Worthy : apparatus for preparing fomentations.

  • Worthy, Richard.
Date:
1858
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Richard Worthy : apparatus for preparing fomentations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/4
    A.D. 1858, 7 th April. N° 746. Apparatus for Preparing Fomentations. (This Invention received Provisional Protection, hut notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Worthy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th April 1858. I, Richard Worthy, of Albert Street, Regent’s Park, in the County of 5 Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Apparatus for Preparing Medical Fomentations,” to be as follows:— My Invention is intended to afford a ready and more efficient means for heating or preparing medical fomentations by the aid of steam, and consists of an apparatus in which is arranged a boiler (heated by a spirit lamp), and also 10 a steam chamber communicating with the former by pipes. The steam chamber is constructed with a double casing, the interior one being perforated with small holes for the admission and equal distribution of the steam throughout the chamber, so as to insure a perfect saturation of the flannels or other articles placed therein. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1858.