An improved catamenial pad or appliance / [Charles Edward Cramp].

  • Cramp, Charles Edward.
Date:
1901
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Credit: An improved catamenial pad or appliance / [Charles Edward Cramp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18,558 A.D.1900 Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1900 Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1901—Accepted, 30th Mar., 1901 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. An Improved Catamenial Pad or Appliance Charles Edward Cramp 10 London. S.E. Accountants Clerk to be as follows; — Denzil Terrace Westcombe Hill Blackheath do hereby declare the nature of this invention A loosely woven or knitted pad or appliance preferably of woollen yarn or 5 worsted of suitable dimensions to each end of which I introduce drawing strings or tapes and tie the ends to form loops, which serve two purposes—firstly the pulling of the said loops makes the appliance assume a semi-tubular or boat shape most comfortable for ladies to wear during the menstrual periods and possessing absorbing power of a surprising degree—secondly the said loops offer 10 a ready means of fastening the appliance to the usual suspender or band Hated this Seventeenth day of October 1900 C, E. CRAMP. complete specification An Improved Catamenial Pad or Appliance, It) I, Charles Edward Cramp, of 10 Denzil Terrace, Westcombe Hill, Black- heath, London, S.E. Accountant s Clerk, 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 statement. This invention relates to appliances used by women at their menstrual periods, 20 and is designed to provide an appliance which shall have the greatest absorbing qualities in the smallest size, shall be warm and comfortable without chafing to the wearer, and which, as a consequence of its attachment to the person, takes mechanically a boat or pouch shape, whilst for cleansing purposes on removal it may be returned to its original perfectly flat form, with its fibres as widely 25 separated as possible, which is most essential for a thorough and sanitary cleansing for further use. Ordinary appliances for the purpose, such as cloths of diaper or similar material, have tlie following serious disadvantages; bad power of absorption, coldness to the person, bulky in volume, and tendency to chafe, by the said bulk, and l>\ 50 tlie Stiffening of the texture when in use. Those appliances of cotton, wool, or similar fiocculent material have to be in whole or part destroyed by fire after once using. Fig. 1 shows my improved appliance in its original Hat form before or after use Fig. 2 shows my improved appliance as it is drawn together in a boat or pouch 35 form when attached to the person Fig: 3 shows diagrammatieally a convenient mode of weaving the said pad. I make the appliance or pad of loosely woven or knitted woollen yarn, worsted, or similar large sized and hairy strands or fibres, not closely woven into a texture, but chiefly of longitudinal and parallel strands a held together at intervals by [Prict