Specification of Alfred Coles and William Coles : trusses.

  • Coles, Alfred
Date:
1862
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Credit: Specification of Alfred Coles and William Coles : trusses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional A. $ W. Coles9 Improvements in the Construction of Trusses for Cases of Hernia. said slotted piece of metal being pivoted to the body spring, it can be placed and fixed at any required angle thereto. By these arrangements the same truss can be rendered applicable to cases of inguinal, femoral, scrotal, or crural hernia, by simply adjusting, in manner before mentioned, the position of the pad and the angle thereof with reference to the body spring. The posterior 5 end of the body spring is also furnished with a longitudinal slot, whereby the position of the back pad can be altered and adjusted, set screws being employed for fixing the same. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Alfred Coles and William Coles in the Great Seal Patent 10 Office on the 15th September 1862. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Alfred Coles and William Coles, both of Wych Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Truss Makers, send greeting. WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 15 Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Alfred Coles and William Coles, Her special licence that we, the said Alfred Coles and William Coles, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such 20 others as we, the said Alfred Coles and William Coles, our 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 25 Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Construction op Trusses for Cases of Hernia,” upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Alfred Coles and William Coles, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner 30 the same was to be performed, and 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 we, the said Alfred Coles and William Coles, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same 35 is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
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