Improvements in receptacles for sterilized surgical dressings and other goods requiring the exclusion of air / [Severin Immenkamp].

  • Immenkamp, Severin.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Improvements in receptacles for sterilized surgical dressings and other goods requiring the exclusion of air / [Severin Immenkamp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 2523 A.D. 1895 Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1895 Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1895—Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Receptacles for Sterilized Surgical Dressings and other Goods Requiring the Exclusion of Air. I, Severin Immenkamp, Merchant, of Innere Klosterstrasse 13, Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— The sheet metal boxes commonly used for packing sterilised surgical dressings, 5 such as bandages and wadding, have an undivided cylindrical sheet metal shell, and holes are cut in the centre of the bottom, which after sterilisation of the contents are closed by soldering. During the process of soldering, impurities may easily get into the interior, and the operation takes so much time, that atmospheric air charged with microbes 10 may again penetrate into the dressing and render the sterilisation illusory. To avoid these drawbacks, I make the shell or circumference of the box of two parts or lengths of equal cross sections (which in the case of an ordinary cylindrical receptacle is a circle), and unite them by means of butt joints. The joint is covered with a sheet metal strip soldered on in such a manner, that 15 it can be easily torn off by means of a special instrument, when it is desired to empty the box. The two parts of the shell may have the same length, equal to half the length of the box, or they may have different lengths. Their cross sections may be circular, oval or of other suitable shape. 20 The ends are swaged on to the side or shell of the box and are preferably corrugated. The end plates may be lined internally with discs or sheets impreg¬ nated with antiseptics, and a suitable packing material is inserted between the edges before the end discs are swaged on to the sides. Dated this 5th day of February 1895. 25 FAIRFAX & WETTER, Agents for the Applicant. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Receptacles for Sterilized Surgical Dressings and other Goods Requiring the Exclusion of Air. 30 I. Severin Immenkamp, Merchant, late of Klosterplatz, now of 30 Emiiien- strasse, Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— The sheet metal boxes commonly used for packing sterilized surgical dressings, 35 such as bandages and wadding, have an undivided cylindrical sheet metal shell, and holes are cut in the centre of the bottom, which after sterilization of the contents are closed by soldering. [ Price Sd.)