Specification of John Balbirnie : inhaling apparatus.

  • John Balbirnie
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of John Balbirnie : inhaling apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. A.D. 1800.—N° 30. Balbirnie's Improved Inhaling Apparatus. from the outer air beyond the room of the patient in order to conduct fresh air to the compressing apparatus, and consequently to force it in combination with other vapours or steam or both to the mouth or pre¬ sence of the patient. Numerous other advantages could be mentioned 5 in accordance with this Invention. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said John Balbirnie in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd July 1869. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John 10 Balbirnie, M.D., M.A., of Pernley Place, Sheffield, in the County of York, Physician, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the lo thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessor, give and grant unto me, the said John Balbirnie, Her special licence that I, the said John Balbirnie, my executors, adminis¬ trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Balbirnie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, 20 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 “ A New or Improved Apparatus for Inhaling Vapours, Medicated Air, or Gases,” 2o upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Balbirnie, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 30 Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme¬ diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Balbirnie, do hereby declare