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

  • Simpson, Michael Hodge.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of Michael Hodge Simpson : apparatus for preventing sea sickness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Simpsons Improvements m Appnrcttws for the IPrevention of Sect Sickness. should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improve¬ ments in Apparatus for the Prevention of Sea Sickness,” upon the condition 5 (amongst others) that I, the said Michael Hodge Simpson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar 10 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michael Hodge Simpson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :— 15 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 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 20 so constructed that the traveller may connect his body as rigidly as possible with the ship. For this purpose I construct a chair in the manner represented in the per¬ spective 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 25 the other B is capable of moving to or from the arm A; to allow of this the ends of the arm B are connected to slides sliding in grooves or guides formed from end to end of two wooden rails forming part of the chair, and to which the slides may be fixed by binding screws, as shown, or by other means. At the top of the back of the chair there is a rest C for the head, placed 30 as represented in the Drawing, so as to support the head in a natural and easy manner. The traveller should sit down before the boat starts, and after having settled himself as comfortably as possible by placing the cushions so that the arms of the chair supported him by the armpits without hurting his shoulders or impeding his breathing, he should advance the moveable arm B 35 towards the arm A, so that both arms shall press against his body and hold his body as rigidly as possible ; the set screws are then turned so as to fix the arms A and B. In this position the traveller can support his head against the piece C, or lower it against his chest, his hands and feet being left free.