Specification of Frederick Charles Rein : apparatus for excluding sound from the ear.

  • Rein, Frederick Charles.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of Frederick Charles Rein : apparatus for excluding sound from the ear. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. Rein s Improved Apparatus for Excluding Sound from the Ear. head, or under the lower jaw or otherwise, and on the other end of t; e spring the apparatus of plate and plug is of course repeated to act upon the other ear. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Frederick Charles Rein, in the Great Seal Patent Office 5 on the 26th May 1865. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Frederick Charles Rein, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Acoustical Instru¬ ment Maker, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the First day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Charles Rein, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick Charles Rein, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others 15 as I, the said Frederick Charles Rein, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, 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 20 Invention for “An Improved Apparatus by the use op which any Sound will become Inaudible to the Wearer,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Charles Rein, 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 25 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 Frederick Charles Rein, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same 30 is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing forming part of this my Specification, and to the figures and letters of reference placed thereon. The object of my Invention is to enable an individual to entirely (or as 35 nearly so as possible exclude sound from the drum of the ear when he (or she) desires so to do, as when such individual is travelling by railway, and in