Complete specification : an improved dry air inhaler and injector to enable the inhalation and injection of atmospheric air and gases heated to high temperatures by human beings and animals / Lewis Abraham Tallerman.

  • Tallerman, Lewis Abraham.
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: Complete specification : an improved dry air inhaler and injector to enable the inhalation and injection of atmospheric air and gases heated to high temperatures by human beings and animals / Lewis Abraham Tallerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 2048 A.D. 1896 Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1896—Accepted, 13th June, 1896 COMPLETE SPECIF [CATION. An Improved Dry Air Inhaler and Injector to Enable the Inhalation and Injection of Atmospheric Air and Gases Heated to High Temperatures by Human Beings and Animals. I Lewis Abraham Tallerman of The Langham Hotel Portland Place London W. Gentleman 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:— The object of this my invention is to provide an apparatus by means of which may be inhaled or injected into the human or animal body at temperatures raised or lowered at w7ill dry atmospheric air, compressed air & gases, whether medicated or non-medicated saturated or comingled with other gases or respirable substances under pressure or otherwise also fumes or smoke arising from the combustion of mineral & vegetable matter. And wherewith the temperature of the said air and gases may be goverened & regulated so that it mav be maintained or gradually or quickly raised or lowered or varied at will during the time that the process of inhaling or injecting is being carried out & by the said gradual raising of the temperature to enable the use 1-5 of the beforementioned inhalants & injections without risk or danger to the patient. Also to enable any moisture introduced respired into or through any cause whatever present in the apparatus to be evaporated or otherwise expelled before or during the time the process of inhaling or injecting is being carried out thereby 20 drying the said air gases or other contents of the apparatus. Also to enable the disinfection of the said air gases or other inhalants and injections by subjecting them to the action of extreme heat. I construct my apparatus in the following manner, viz.,— I construct a copper receiver A of convenient form and size preferably cylindrical and of about 25 28 inches in length and 16 inches in diameter to hold the air gas or other inhalant or injection to be used. This receiver may be bell-shaped oval or other convenient shape and its dimensions larger or smaller. I do not confine myself to the use of copper any other suitable metal or material may be used in the con¬ struction of both the receiver and the fittings of the apparatus and the forms 30 and proportions of both may be varied. One end of the receiver if cylindrical is closed by an air-tight metal cap B having a projecting metal tongue at the bottom thereof w'hich tongue passes through a loop projecting from the bottom of the receiver and serves as a pivot on which the said cap called the valve-cap can move when open. When closed it is 35 fastened to a lug on the top of the receiver by a fast running screw C. At the top or side but preferably at the opposite end fastened to the receiver preferably by a tourniquet is a tube or tunnel or trumpet shaped fitting D projecting outwards and upwards of metal or other suitable material divided into three sections called the inhaling chambers. 40 The centre section is formed by two screens of wire net E placed midway in the said fitting and three inches apart, it has a door or slide and forms the chamber F in which the dry air gases and other inhalants and injections in passing through may be medicated or saturated and in which vapourization or volatilization may be carried out. *