Specification of Benjamin Guy Babington : protecting the throat, chest, and mouth from atmospheric influences.

  • Benjamin Guy Babington
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of Benjamin Guy Babington : protecting the throat, chest, and mouth from atmospheric influences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1860, 2nd March. N° 582. Protecting the Threat, Chest, and Mouth from Atmospheric Influences. ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Guy Babington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd March 1860. I, Benjamin Guy Babington, of George Street, Hanover Square, in the 5 County of Middlesex, M.D., do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven¬ tion for “ Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Protecting the Throat and Chest from Atmospheric Influences, and which may also be employed as a Protection to the Mouth,” to be as follows:— The object of the improvements is to give protection to the chest and throat 10 by the use of an instrument or apparatus of a form adapted to cover the chest, and at the same time protect the throat by covering up and enclosing the chin. of the wearer, and so that the wearer may when desired introduce the mouth therein, and thereby obtain protection to it. For this purpose I provide internal bodies of the desired shape, and by preference of a material that will 15 admit of folding for the pocket, and then of readily resuming the desired form. Gutta percha or a compound thereof or prepared india-rubber answers well. And I coat such body internally as well as externally with such fabric or material as convenience or ornament may dictate, and I apply strings or bands or clasps to hold the same on the neck of the wearer. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1860.