Specification of Celse Eugène Capron : cupping apparatus.

  • Capron, Celse Eugène.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Celse Eugène Capron : cupping apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Capron s Improved Cupping Apparatus. ' t Figures 2, 3, 4, & 5, represent bell & other glasses of different forms & sizes. Figure 3 represents an apparatus fitting the caoutchouc ball, composed of several bell glasses, & serving to cup several places at once. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Celse Eugbne Capron in the Great Seal Patent Office on 5 the 27th Februarv 1856. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Celse Eugene Capron, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l’Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Celse Eugene Capron, Her special license that I, the said Celse Eugene Capron, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the 15 said Celse Eugene Capron, 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 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 Im- 20 proved Cupping Apparatus,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Celse Eugene Capron, 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 in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and 25 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Celse Eugene Capron, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and 30 to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:— This Invention consists of an apparatus, as represented in the annexed Drawings, in the lower part of which a partial vacuum is produced by means of a vulcanised india-rubber ball, in connection with suitable valves, which apparatus forms a substitute for the ordinary cupping glass. It may be 35