Specification of Francis Graham Bennett : apparatus for facilitating the walking of invalids.

  • Bennett, Francis Graham.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Francis Graham Bennett : apparatus for facilitating the walking of invalids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ Apparatus for Facilitating the Walking of Invalids. LETTERS PATENT to Francis Graham Bennett, of No. 28, Grand Parade, Brighton, M.R.C.S., for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating the Walking of Invalids.” Sealed the 1st May 1866, and dated the 7th November 1865. PBOVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Graham Bennett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th November 1865. I, Francis Graham Bennett, of No. 28, Grand Parade, Brighton, 5 M.R.C.S., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improve¬ ments in Apparatus for Facilitating the Walking of Invalids,” to be as follows-:— This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for facilitating the walking of invalids. The apparatus is composed of a horse-shoe of 10 wood, by preference, about 3 feet in length, and mounted when for out-door purposes on three wheels, one placed at each end of the horse-shoe of wood, and one carried from the curved central portion of the horse-shoe ; from this horse-shoe are supported a pair of crutches ; the crutches at their lower ends are received into cylindrical sockets of brass fixed to uprights of wood let into 15 the horse-shoe, and are capable of being raised or lowered in these sockets.