Specification of Leopold Wertheimber : apparatus for preventing sea sickness.

  • Wertheimber, Leopold.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Leopold Wertheimber : apparatus for preventing sea sickness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wertheimber s Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Sea Sickness. drawn, the air acting as an elastic spring, and may be expelled therefrom when the weight of the body is thrown upon either side. Another modification of the above apparatus consists in making the sandals of pieces of india-rubber tubing or strips of india-rubber, placed either ver¬ tically or horizontally, so as to obtain great elasticity. 5 Another arrangement consists of two oval rings or frames of steel; these are supported one above the other by metal rods, which keep them a certain distance apart; the rings are of sufficient size to allow the foot to sink within them. Inside the upper ring is a sole, to which are secured india-rubber rings or straps, which are also fastened to the lower ring; the 10 india-rubber rings pass over rollers attached to the upper metal ring. The same arrangement of rings may be supported by rods jointed in the middle with pieces of india-rubber; the upper part is made smaller than the lower, so that it may freely descend within the lower part. Having described the nature of mv Invention, and the manner in which the 15 same may be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise mechanical arrangements herein described, as the same may be greatly varied without departing from the particular features of the Invention. And what I claim is, the apparatus herein described, and any other con- 20 structed in a similar manner, for the purpose of putting the human body in such a condition as that it will not participate in the movements of the vessel, by causing an independent movement, often opposite to that of the vessel, thereby neutralizing the effect of the motion of the vessel, and preventing sea sickness. 25 LEOPOLD WERTHEIMBER. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William SroiriswoODE, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1854.