1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: John Henry Heeps
615. HEEPS, JOHN HENRY, 46A. Liverpool Street, City — Inventor and Manufacturer.
Pulpit, containing a gutta-percha hearing apparatus, for the deaf in churches, chapels, lecture-rooms, etc.; a gutta-percha funnel is placed out of sight, to which the tubing is attached, and carried under the wood-work or floor, to the pew in which the deaf person sits. The end of the tube is applied to the ear.
Self-adjusting prolapsus spring-bandage and abdominal supporter, with gutta-percha pad; also self-adjusting abdominal spring-belt.