Specification of Louis Encausse : vapour baths.

  • Encausse, L (Louis)
Date:
1868
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    Provisional Specification. 3 A.D. 1868.—N° 942. Encausse s Improvements in Vapour Baths. the vapour bath. Cocks are provided for the withdrawal of the water of condensation from the receiver, and in order to afford facility for testing the nature or strength of the bath a small condenser may he fitted to the top of one or both the receivers, whereby the saturated 5 or impregnated steam may be condensed and collected in the form of liquid which may be administered as a drink to the patient. The entire combined apparatus of steam generator and receivers may be constructed on a small scale and be contained in a case or box of readily portable dimensions, or if preferred it may be erected as a fixture 10 in any convenient part of the building. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Louis Encausse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th September 1868. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis 15 Encausse, of Madrid, in the Kingdom of Spain, Chemist, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 20 give and grant unto me, the said Louis Encausse, Her special license that I, the said Louis Encausse, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Encausse, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term 25 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 “ Improvements in the Application of Remedial Agents to the Human Frame, and in the Apparatus employed therein,” upon the condition (amongst others) that 30 I, the said Louis Encausse, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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