Specification of William Newton : surgical chair bed.

  • Newton, William.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Newton : surgical chair bed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Newtons Improved Surgical Chair Bed. utterly cease, determine, and become void, and as in and the same, reference being thereto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Newton, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be constructed and used, the particulars of which 5 are set forth in the following description, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :— The Improved Surgical Chair Bed, with various Appendages, designed for Useful Purposes, invented by Monsieurs Rouet and Carpentier, of Paris, which has been communicated to me by a Foreigner residing abroad, consists of 10 certain arrangements of mechanical parts, which, being put together, form an easy chair, couch, or bed, for invalids, having various pinions, racks, pullies, and levers, and other contrivances for the purpose of allowing parts of the bed or couch to be occasionally raised or lowered, so as to convert it into an arm chair, or to open, raise, or remove certain parts for the purpose of getting more 15 convenient access to the patient in performing any surgical operation, or assisting the functions of nature, or relieving the patient from the fatigue of remaining long in one posture, by raising or lowering the ends or sides of the bed, and shifting parts of it, the particulars of which are fully set out in the following description, and exhibited in the several Figures of the accompanying 20 Drawing; (that is to say,) this bed or couch is designed for sick persons that may be deprived of the power of moving, or for wounded or other persons that require careful attention or surgical treatment. The bedstead exhibited in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is transversely divided into three parts. A is the external frame to which the mechanism is attached. The 25 part of the framework B for the feet is capable of descending, and being moved perpendicularly by the racks L. The part C in the middle is immov¬ able, and serves as a seat. The part D for the head may be raised by a toothed segment H, which, being done, and the part B let down, the bed takes the form of an arm chair. In this position the pannel M at the feet of the bed 30 is turned down, and forms a step to assist the invalid in getting off the bed. Ihe part of the framework D, described as forming the back of the arm chair, may be made fast, and instead of its being allowed to move, the parts represented in Figs. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, and 31 may be substituted. B is a square frame, upon which two transverse mattrasses are deposited (see Fig. 3). 35 C is also a square frame, upon which a close stool box is placed with a inattrass above it. D, the rising part of the frame with two mattrasses. If it is required to lift up the sick person and to form the back of an arm chair, the pinions E must be turned, by the actions of which the racks I and L, and