Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : pneumatic apparatus for treating diseases of the lungs and heart.

  • Alfred Vincent Newton
Date:
1874
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Credit: Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : pneumatic apparatus for treating diseases of the lungs and heart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Newtons ’Pneumatic Apparatus for Treaiing Diseases of the Lungs, 8fc. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th June 1874. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Alfred 5 Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, 68, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 10 thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, admi¬ nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time 15 agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ after 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 Inven¬ tion for “ Improved Pneumatic Apparatus for Treating certain Diseases of 20 the Lungs and Heart,55 being a communication to me from abroad by Professor Louis Waldenburg, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should 25 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do 30 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):— 35 The object of this Invention is to provide a facile means of obtaining either compressed or attenuated air, as may be required, for breathing
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