Specification of Robert Henry Emerson : siphon drinking cup.

  • Emerson, Robert Henry.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Henry Emerson : siphon drinking cup. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Emersons New or Improved Invalid or Siphon Drinking Cup. vessels, according to my Invention, to the particular uses for which they are intended. The form of the siphon and its position in relation to the several parts of the cup may be varied, as also that of the air course or opening by which the action of the siphon is controlled. The cups or vessels may be made of china, glass, earthenware, or other suitable material or combination 5 of materials, and they may be either open or be provided with a lid, and be made to any suitable design, or ornamented in any manner which may be desired. The siphon tube may either form part of the vessel, or the vessel and the siphon may be made separately and be afterwards combined together, and the siphon tube may be adapted to receive mouth-pieces of varying lengths. 10 The cups used for administering medicines and stimulants may be graduated to indicate the necessary doses. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Robert Henry Emerson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th August 1865. 15 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Robert Henry Emerson, of the City of Dublin, Ireland, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the 28th year of Her reign, 20 did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Henry Emerson, Her special license that I, the said Robert Henry Emerson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Henry Emerson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 25 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 “ A New or Improved Invalid or Siphon Drinking Cup,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Henry Emerson, my executors or ad minis- 30 irators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the Land and seal of one of them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per¬ formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters 35 Patent