Specification of John Newling : truss.

  • Newling, John.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Newling : truss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Newling s Improved Truss for Hernia. B in any convenient manner; this steel spring being finely tapered to give greater elasticity. To allow the springs to adapt themselves to the move¬ ments of the body, a hinge joint is provided at D ; the hinge allows the parts II, E, to approach or recede from each other; the part II is attached to the steel spring A, by means of two rivets B, C, which slide in a groove F, and 5 allow the pressure pad to be adjusted laterally. This pad is situated at E, and is kept against the ruptured part by means of the flat spring G and hinge joint H, which prevent the pad shifting, no matter what position the body is placed in. Finding that the under strap which passes between the legs, and is used in most other trusses neutralizes the action of the spring behind the 10 pressure pad, I dispense with it and use the hinge joint shewn at D and the flat spring G, which keep the pad against the ruptured part, without inter¬ fering with the free action of the body or the comfort of the wearer. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the said John Newling in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 30th July 1858. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL DOME, I, John Newling, of Park Street, Grosvenor Square, London, Surgical Instrument Maker, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 20 Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Newling, Her special licence, that I, the said John Newling, my execu¬ tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Newling, 25 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 Invention for “ An Improved Truss for Hernia,” upon 30 the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Newling, my executors oi administrators, by an instrument in writing under my or their or one of theii hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the Said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar 35 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.