Surgical appliances for restraining the movements of patients / [Avery Whipple Ready].

  • Ready, Avery Whipple.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Surgical appliances for restraining the movements of patients / [Avery Whipple Ready]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TNT 22,803 A.D. 1901 Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1901 -Accepted, 16th Jan., 1902 10 15 20 10 ;o 35 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. “ Surgical Appliances for Restraining the Movements of Patients ” We, Avery T\ iiipple Ready, of No, 15G Fifth Avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan and City, County and State of New York, hinted States of America, Merchant, and Edward Hamilton Ross, of No. 101 East 25th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan and City, County and State of New York, United States of America, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer¬ tained in and bv the following* statement: — This invention relates to the class of sleeve-like safety appliances designed to prevent children and other persons who may be suffering from eczema, small pox, delirium and the like from injuring their faces or scalps by scratching them ; and the object is to provide an appliance which will insure perfect freedom of the circulation, free room for the play of the muscles and growth of the arm, and good ventilation, while it will prevent the touching of the face or head with the hands. In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the inven¬ tion— Figure 1 is a view of the appliance as a whole, on a relatively small scale. Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale illustrating the application of the appliance in use. Fig. 3 includes two sectional views of one of the tubular sleeves, or sleeve- like protectors. The appliance consists of two like tubular protectors A, connected bv a belt B, provided with shoulder straps b. Preferably the protector A will be cylindrical, as seen in the lower view, Fig. 3, which is a cross-section, and will be of celluloid, although other light and stiff material will serve, as for example, alumininum, stiff papier mache, and the like. The sleeve will be shaped at its upper end to fit up under the arm at the arm-pit; that is, it will be hollowed out at a, on tin1 inner side or next the body, while the outer side; will be elevated, as at a1. It. will be long enough to extend down the arm to or over the wrist joint, as indi¬ cated in Fig. 2, and by preference will have in it apertures or perforations <r, suitably situated to secure ventilation. However, the protector is designed to fit somewhat loosely so that air may circulate about the arm, and so that circulation and growth may not be impeded. Near the upper end of the protector, on the side which is to be next the body, two slits a3 are formed to receive the belt B. This belt, threaded through said slits encircles the body below the arm-pits somewhat as seen in Fig. 2, and the straps b go over the shoulders. The belt B and straps b may be of webbing, or any other suitable flexible material. At its lower or outer end the margin of the protector A will be smooth and 40 rounded so that the patient cannot cut or injure himself on the edge of it; and where the material of the protector is quite thin, there may be a. thickened bead formed on the margin at «4, as seen in the upper view, Fig. 3, which is, in part, a longitudinal mid-section. I am well aware that it has been proposed to prevent a patient from scratching 45 his face by fitting a short, tubular, coned, metal splint tightly over the elbow and securing it at both ends to the wearer’s sleeve by safety-pins; but such a [Price St/,1