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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    Bennett's Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating the Walking of Invalids. 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 the horse- 5 shoe, and are capable of being raised or lowered in these sockets, 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. Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully 10 to describe the manner of performing the same. Description of the Drawings. Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the apparatus, and Figure 2 shows a plan thereof. a, a, is the horse-shoe frame to which the three wheels 6, b, and c are 15 applied ; d, d, are two crutches, the stems d1 of which are arranged to slide in sockets carried by the standards a\ so that they may be raised and lowered ; they are also arranged to be fixed to the height desired by set screws, not shown in the Drawing. In the arrangement shown three wheels are used, which is what I prefer when the apparatus is for out-door use, but when for 20 in-door use I prefer to have castors in place of wheels, such as are shown in the Drawings. Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing the same, I claim the combined arrangement of the frame a} a, with wheels or castors b, b, c, and the crutches d, d, as herein described. 25 In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Graham Bennett, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. F. G. BENNETT. (Es.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1866.