Specification of Francis Fearon : softening or deadening sound.

  • Fearon, Francis.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of Francis Fearon : softening or deadening sound. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification* Fearon s Improved Apparatus for Softening or Deadening Sound. that the plates (which are about the size of a farthing) are fixed or fitted. The centre of the bow is formed as a spring and so elongated downwards as to admit of pressure from thumb and finger for the purpose of fixing the apparatus or removing it. When worn, each of the two plates closes and presses lightly on the tragus of each ear, the metal pieces or wires descending 5 in curve or straight under the lobes of the ears, and so downwards below the under jaw, meeting at the centre as aforesaid, where a spring or other con¬ trivance allows of their being pressed outwards to release the plates or one of them. The plates and wires may be enameled color of flesh if preferred, and I would here observe that the apparatus may be made to fit on from the back 10 of the neck (with very slight alteration of the parts) or even from the top of the head, but I prefer to effect my object from under the lower jaw, as then nearly all the parts of the apparatus are less visible, and if the wearer has whiskers or beard entirely so, except as to the plates on the tragus, which may, as aforesaid, be enameled the color of the skin. 15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Francis Fearon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1865. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Francis Fearon, of Great George Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, 20 Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto 25 me, the said Francis Fearon, Her special licence that I, the said Francis Fearon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Fearon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 30 make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Im¬ proved Apparatus for Softening or Deadening Sound,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis Fearon, my executors or adminis¬ trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their 35 hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the