Improvements relating to inhalers and to compounds to be used therein / [John Henry Peck].

  • Peck, John Henry.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Improvements relating to inhalers and to compounds to be used therein / [John Henry Peck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 14,937 A.D. 1889 Date of Application, 21st Sept, 1889—Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1889 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements relating to Inhalers and to Compounds to be Used therein. I, John Henry Peck, of 2 Museum Chambers, Bury Street, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and bv the following statement :— 5 This invention relates to inhalers of the kind or class adapted to be carried upon the person and usually composed of a glass tube containing absorbent material to receive and hold the substance to be inhaled. The improved tubular inhaler or smelling-tube is provided with an absorbent core, preferably of asbestos, secured to a wire and surrounded by a filling of copper and 10 zinc granules, the said wire being supported between two fibrous heads. In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a vertical central section, partly in elevation of one form of my improved inhaler. Figure 2 is a section on the line x, x, Figure 1. 15 Figure 3 is a section on the line xl, x1, Figure l, and Figure 4 is an elevation partly in section illustrating another form or modification of my said inhaler. Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing. The tube a is made of glass or other suitable material and, by preference, one end is 20 made taper, as at b, in order to concentrate the flow of the fumes or vapors at the outlet, c is a core or mass of suitable bibulous material, stiffened by a wire d and arranged between fibrous heads e, the said wire being fastened into or upon the said heads and thus serving to hold and keep the core and heads together. In the space between the core and the interior surface of the tube is a filling /, composed of 25 granules of copper and zinc. The core c is by preference made of a sheet of asbestos bent about or wound upon the wire, asbestos being preferred because of its indestructibility, its superior absorbent and retentive qualities, and also because of its not being liable to swell or expand upon absorbing liquid. 30 The heads e are made of fibrous material, such as rattan, in order to permit the free passage of air or vapor ; and to further facilitate such passage, the rims of the said heads may be provided with grooves e1. These heads are of such diameter that they fit into and do not readily move in the tube. As shewn in the modification Figure 4, the walls of the tube may be made parallel. 35 And as also shewn in the said modification, corks o may be provided to close the ends of the tube to prevent evaporation. The wire d may be dispensed with in some cases, but in that event the heads e, e should be made to fit the tube tightly. I prefer to employ, in my improved inhaler, an aromatic compound consisting of a 40 mixture of the following substances in or about in the proportions stated, viz. : Oil peppermint pure - #i Oil Wintergreen pure - - drs. IV Oil Mustard Essential - - drs. IV Oil Horse Radish pure- - - drs. IV Alcohol pure, quantity sufficient - OT If oil “ Horse Radish ” cannot be procured, double the amount of “ Oil Mustard essential ” may be employed in the above mixture. [Price 6J.]