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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    2 A.D. 1865.—N° 2873. Provisional Bennett’s In^^ents in A^aratu,/facilitating the Walking of Invalids. and fixed by set screws; the crutches may thus be fixed at any required height. When the apparatus is for in-door purposes I support the horse-shoe on castors in place of on wheels. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Francis Graham Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office on 5 the 7th May 1866. - - '1 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Francis Graham Bennett, of No. 28, Grand Parade, Brighton, M.R.C.S., send ^WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-nmth year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis Graham Bennett, Her special licence that I, the sai Francis Graham Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such 15 others as I, the said Francis Graham Bennett, 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, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven- 20 tion for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating the Walking of Invalids,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis Graham Bennett, 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, and in what manner 25 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 Francis Graham Bennett, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is 30 to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) : This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for facilitating the walking of invalids. The apparatus is composed of a horse-shoe of wood, 35 by preference, about 3 feet in length, and mounted when for out-door purposes