Specification of William Robert Lake : inhaling apparatus.

  • Lake, William Robert.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Specification of William Robert Lake : inhaling apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lake's Improved Inhaling Apparatus. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Robert Labe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th October 1874. _ • TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William 5 Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the 10 thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis¬ trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree 15 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 “An Improved Inhaling Apparatus,55 a communication to me from abroad 20 by Edward Reed Gardner, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Merchant, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors or adminis¬ trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the 25 nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to he performed, and cause the same to he filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby 30 declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This Invention relates to a novel and simple apparatus for adminis¬ tering medical inhalations for the relief of catarrhal, bronchial, and 35 other affections of the throat and lungs, and which is designed to be carried in the pocket, and may be conveniently so carried properly