Specification of William Robert Lake : artificial breasts.

  • Lake, William Robert.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of William Robert Lake : artificial breasts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. A.D. 1868.—N° 616. 5 Lake's Improvements in Artificial JBreasts. ultimately produces an irreparable injury, causing the nipple to retract and giving rise to tumors. With my improved breast forms neither of these evils can result; the nipple is not retracted, the natural growth of the breast is not retarded, and abundant opportunity is afforded 5 for insensible perspiration by a free admission of air under the form. Another advantage of no small magnitude is the expansion of the lungs of the wearer by the act of inflation. I design to arrange these forms with a chamber between the base and flexible front for the reception of milk, and to extend a tube or duct from the said chamber to the 10 papilla so as to form an artificial mammery gland for nursing. Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and shown how the same may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, I claim,— hirst. The elastic inflatable front C with a rigid base constructed 15 and arranged substantially as set forth. Second. In combination with an elastic front and rigid base a tube pipe or inlet, provided with a valve or equivalent device, and an air escape passage, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. Third. The use of sponge J or other suitable material in combination 20 with the elastic front and rigid base, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. .Fourth. The concave base in combination with the flexible front and devices for the inflation and expulsion of the air substantially as set forth. 25 In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, (l.s.) Witness, 30 Tho8. N. Palmer, Clerk to Messrs. Haseltine, Lake, & Co., 8, Southampton Buildings, W.C. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1868.