Specification of James Findlow : beds or couches for sick persons.

  • Findlow, James.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Specification of James Findlow : beds or couches for sick persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Findloufs Improvements in Beds or Couches for Sick Persons. cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Findlow, do hereby 5 declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying drawing (that is to say): My improvements consist in constructing beds or couches so that a 10 portion or portions thereof may be moved from beneath the patient for the purpose of adapting a convenience, or for the performance of operations, or for other purposes. For instance, I form a circular orifice in the bed or couch, and fill the space with a detached piece stuffed so as to constitute a part of the bed or couch, and covered with 15a portion of sheet, &c., if desired; this detached piece I support by suitable apparatus, and upon which, therefore, the patient may lie. Such supports, however, are capable of being withdrawn at pleasure, so as to allow the detached part of the bed to be lowered, and to be replaced by a pan, or any proper convenience, which, being then raised 20 to the former situation of the moveable part of the bed, will be brought to the use of the patient without the necessity of raising him. In like manner, other moveable portions may be adapted for the purpose of gaining access to other parts of the body; or they may be applied in sufficient number to enable an entire change of the bed 25 or couch to be made by removing them one after the other, and substituting at each removal a fresh portion. And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, I have appended to this my Speci¬ fication a drawing, shewing a method by which the same may be carried into practical application. Fig. 1, is a longitudinal section 30 of the bed; Fig. 2, a plan view of the framework of the same; and Fig. 3, a transverse section; in all of which Figures similar letters of reference denote the like parts. The framework of the bedstead of any ordinary construction is shewn at a, but provided with an orifice at b, surrounded by a metal casing c, secured by a flange to the laths 35 or framework, a similar orifice being also formed through the bed or