Specification of Michael Hodge Simpson : apparatus for preventing sea sickness.

  • Simpson, Michael Hodge.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Michael Hodge Simpson : apparatus for preventing sea sickness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1866, 19^ December. N° 3338. Apparatus for Preventing Sea Sickness. LETTERS PATENT to Michael Hodge Simpson, residing at No. 127, Milk Street, Boston, U.S. of America, for the Invention of “Improvements in Apparatus for the Prevention of Sea Sickness.” Sealed the 19th March 1867, and dated the 19th December 1866. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael Hodge Simpson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th December 1866. I, Michael Hodge Simpson, residing at No. 127, Milk Street, Boston. 5 U.S. of America, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for the Prevention of Sea Sickness,” to be as follows :— Experience acquired during many sea voyages has convinced me that sea sickness is produced from the motion of the vessel, causing the stomach to rub 10 against the diaphragm and inferior organs. The object of this Invention is to provide apparatus by means of which a traveller may prevent this rubbing action, and to effect this I employ apparatus so constructed that the traveller may connect his body as rigidly as possible with the ship. 15 For this purpose I construct a chair in the manner represented in the perspective view, Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed. This chair is securely fixed to any part of the ship ; it has two arms A, B, one of which, A, may be fixed, whilst the other, B, is capable of moving to and from the arm A; to allow of this the ends of the arm B are connected to slides sliding in grooves