Specification of Sylvan de Wilde : apparatus for probing shot wounds.

  • Wilde, Sylvan de.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Sylvan de Wilde : apparatus for probing shot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    De Wildes Improvements in Apparatus for Probing Shot Wounds, in connection with one of the poles of the battery passes round and forms the coil of the electro-magnet, and is connected to one of the wires in the probe or instrument before mentioned whilst another wire from the other pole of the battery is connected with the other wire in the probe. In using this instrument or apparatus the probe is introduced into a wound till it meets 5 with an obstruction, when the two wires are protruded through the end of the probe, and if the obstruction be a ball or projectile of metal an electric circuit will be completed, and the bell will be sounded by the electro-magnet acting on the striker or hammer of the bell. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed lo by the said Sylvan de Wilde in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th July 1867. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sylvan DE Wilde, of Alexandra Terrace, Hatcham Park Road, in the County of Kent, send greeting. 15 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our I.ord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Sylvan de Wilde, Her special licence that I, the said Sylvan 20 de Wilde, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sylvan de Wilde, 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 25 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Im¬ provements IN Apparatus used when Probing for. Balls or Projectiles,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sylvan de Wilde, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and 30 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 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 Sylvan de Wilde, do hereby declare 35 the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-