An equipoise chair for the use of hospitals and invalids, comprising the apparatus of the wheel-couch, table, chair, and bed / [Caleb Loader].

  • Loader, Caleb.
Date:
1890
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Credit: An equipoise chair for the use of hospitals and invalids, comprising the apparatus of the wheel-couch, table, chair, and bed / [Caleb Loader]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 18,450 A.D. 1889 Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1889 Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1890—Accepted, 8th Nov.. 1890 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. An Equipoise Chair for the use of Hospitals and Invalids, Comprising the Apparatus of a Wheel-couch, Table, Chair, and Bed. I Caleb Loader of Coy 1 ton Terrace Wincanton in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—• 1. The object my invention has for its value, is, its usefulness ;—I describe it further as a drawing room swing-couch rotating equipoise-chair, an equipment for invalids 5 and for affording relief and comfort to the human body, generally ; comprising a rotating wheel couch, table, chair, and bed complete in one ornamental equipage, for the cottage drawing room, or mansion, and for use in infirmary wards, public & private institutions hospitals, etc. :—And as fixtures for railway compartments, ships cabins, and other saloons, workhouse wards, prisons, and barracks ; or the garden, 10 lawns, and sea side as perambulators. 2. Its mechanical and general construction embodies the work of art, centred iu the focus of self-action carries on its swing reclining axis, an equality of weight, the state in which the two ends or sides are balanced affording ease to the afflicted, a comfort to the aged & infirm, a luxury to the healthy, a support for giving soothing 15 rest, and to renovate the worn-out, tired, and weary soul of the body ot the human frame. 3. The apparatus may be constructed either with or without perambulating gearing :—As a wheel-chair apparatus it combines a rotating treddle movement, or hand gearing movement in combination for varying its location and scenery, and other 20 conveniences : The apparatus is fitted with leg-rests of an ingenious device having folding sections to extend the rests to tall persons (as to fold up when un-used, and slide behind the legs), for use to either right or left legs, or both, with double or single action, for injured limbs enabling pillows or cusheons to be adjusted to ease the person. 25 4. The application of the apparatus is for enabling the person of the invalid, without assistance, or removing from the chair, to rest in recumbency by the balance of the body in the adjustment of the chair, on a self-acting swing axis, regulating itself at reclining angles ; the jesthetic motion is perceptible only in adjusting the desired recumbency by force of the hands clasping the arms ot the 30 apparatus ; namely :— 5. After being seated the action of the apparatus lifts the feet and legs from off tei'ra-jirma while retaining a sitting posture, to an even elevation, gently placing the patient in recumbency, the lowering the body, and raising the feet & legs parallel one with the other, converging to the horizontal reclining posture desired, to that of the 35 level of a bed ;—This is all performed by the simple action ot the hand clasping the arms of the apparatus on the balance of even axis, and but with slight apparent motion susceptible with the movement of the body : And again permitting the patient, at will, to resume a sitting posture, if at frequent intervals ot time, change and relief are needed, without removing from the seat. 40 6. The equipoise, as a chair-bed or a recumbent chair-of-ease, & of comfort, is a valuable adjunct, and a boon, as in sickness, so in health ;—It possesses a marvel ot soothing comfort, alike, to the nervous system, and is an invaluable invalid apparatus, alike, for the infirmary, cottage, or mansion : And, an especial luxury as a gentlemans lounge, or smoking chair, affording in self-possession of thought, in quietude, for 45 home comforts, the voiding a desire from roaming abroad, 7. The designation of descriptive title to the invention is an improved equipoise chair-of-comfort for the use of hospitals & invalids, as desciibed :—Its. fittings comprise in one apparatus, a wheel couch, table, chair and bed, the furniture, in [Price