Specification of Isaac Negus Jakins : apparatus for assisting invalids or bedridden persons.

  • Jakins, Isaac Negus.
Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Isaac Negus Jakins : apparatus for assisting invalids or bedridden persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1870.—N° 2314. Provisional Specification. Jakins9 Impel. Apparatus for Assisting Invalids or Bedridden JPersons. cut in it, also a screw at either end, one to fasten the handle on, the other to prevent the bar sliding out. This horizontal bar revolves by means of the handle, thus raising the invalid from the bed, where he can be fixed at any desired height by means of a bolt being projected into a slot, which bolt is affixed to the top of the cap on the side corresponding to 5 the slot. When the invalid is thus raised up, assisted by a brace or braces from his shoulders & around the buttocks, he may be removed from one bed to another, or to a chair by merely applying a little force to the opposite upright to which you desire to remove him. The caps on the top of each revolving allow this. 10 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1871.