Specification of Edward Moore : surgical bandages.

  • Moore, Edward.
Date:
1864
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edward Moore : surgical bandages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    4/6 (page 2)
    Moores Improvements in the Manufacture of Surgical Bandages. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Edward Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th August 1864. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edward Moore, of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucester, send greeting. 5 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Moore, Her special licence that I, the said Edward 10 Moore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Moore, 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, 15 the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Manufacture of Surgical Bandages,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Moore, 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, 20 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 Edward Moore, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per- 25 formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say : — My said Invention consists in the employment of perforated materials for composing surgical bandages, and is applicable to any of the materials or fabrics commonly used or adapted for such purposes, whether woollen, linen, 30 cotton, silk, or of any similar or analogous character. In order to make or cut the perforations or holes I use any contrivance or contrivances suitable for the purpose, or, if preferred, the same may be formed in the process of weaving or manufacturing the materials employed. The materials so per¬ forated or manufactured as before mentioned, when employed for surgical S5 bandages, admit of the most perfect evaporation, and also of lotions and other substances or preparations being applied to the patient without the removal