Specification of Jacques Rives : trusses.

  • Rives, Jacques.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Jacques Rives : trusses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hives Improvements in Trusses for the Cure or Alleviation of Hernia. tlie spring moves on the back of the upper pad, it being guided between the two plates, by which (the upper pad is attached to the bent plate. If desired, there may be two lower pads. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Jacques Hives in the Great Seal Patent Office, 5 on the 16th January 1854. «/ TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, T, J acques Rives, of 8, Hotel Motav, Rue Motay, Paris, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the 10 year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes¬ sors, give and grant unto me, the said Jacques Rives, Her special licence that I, the said Jacques Rives, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jacques Rives, my ex- 15 editors, 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 “Improvements in 20 Trusses eor the Cure or Alleviation of Hernia,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jacques Rives, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 25 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediatelv j after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jacques Rives, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained 30 in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say): Figure 1, represents a section, and Figure 2, a front view of my improved truss, a, a\ is a curved spring, bent so as to form two