Improvements in plasters / [Robert Darton Gibbs].

  • Gibbs, Robert Darton.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in plasters / [Robert Darton Gibbs]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification Accepted, 15th June, 1888 A.D. 1888, 7th May. N° 6804. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Plasters. We, Robekt Dakton Gibbs of Oldbury in the county of Worcester and John Cuxson of Wednesbury in the county of Stafford, Surgical Dressing Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following 0 statement:— This our invention relates to an improved porous plaster, and which invention has for its object to simplify the production and to dispense with the operation of punching said plasters as has heretofore been the custom. We now proceed to describe our said invention, reference being had to the drawings J-0 hereunto annexed, in which the figure represents a plaster made in accordance with our improvement. Said invention consists essentially of a piece of cloth or other suitable fabric A, upon which the adhesive material 13 (commonly used for porous plasters) is spread in stripes, leaving between them narrow spaces of the plain fabric. If however pre- ^ ferred, the adhesive material B may be spread upon the fabric in fancy patterns leaving intervals or spaces. Plasters made as aforedescribed are perfectly porous, inasmuch as the cloth or fabric upon which the adhesive material is spread, is in itself of a porous nature, therefore the necessity of punching said plasters with holes may be dispensed with. 20 Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven¬ tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :— 1st. Porous plasters, consisting of porous cloth or other fabric having upon its [Price