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. represented in Fig. 24) the parts of which may be folded together at pleasure; however the sacking (5) may be employed alone. 7, three suspension slips held by straps and hooks passed over the lateral shafts (1), Fig. 4, to the shafts 28, Fig. 17. Unhooking one of these suspension slips allows the sick person to be raised and placed in any position he might desire to take. To 5 the slips may be fastened the auxiliary sacking (5, 5). These parts of the sacking (5, 5, 5, 7,) are made of ticken or of linen, or of any other material that may be suited to the purpose, and to increase its strength straps may be introduced between the material if double, but if single they may be sewn at the back. These straps, placed one near to the other, may be used by them- ] 0 selves instead of a sacking, as in Figs. 32 and 34. Whatever material and form they may be of, it will be convenient to make use of the rods (9), and of the straps (10), or of the rods and hooks Figs. 32 and 34. The drawers or breeches (8) are to be laced, buttoned, or secured, by strings or clasps, or by any other means, about the person of the invalid, by a triangular seam, as in ]5 Fig. 4. They are to be of ordinary or varnished leather, or of both, rendered waterproof. If it should be considered desirable, the bottom of the close Stool seat, as represented in Fig. 6, may be adapted to the tube or opening of the close stool channel of the drawers, shewn in Fig. 3. In Fig. 5, 11 are transverse shafts put in rotation by a pinion driving the wheel (14), or by 20 bevel wheels, or by endless screws. 12, transverse bars bent with forks at their extremities, which are intended to support the transverse shafts (11), and to supply the place of the rods (3), see 33, Fig. 17. 13, pinions driving the wheel 14, which are intended at the same time to give motion to the transverse and lateral shafts. 15, bevel wheels to drive the machinery instead of the 05 pinions (13) and the wheels (14). One of these wheels may be of a larger or smaller diameter, according as it may be required to give greater or less tension to the sackings (5 & 7). Fig. 6 is the close stool seat, which is con¬ nected to the mattrasses or to the sacking (5, or 5, 5). In order to render the surface of this seat even, rods may be introduced into the hems, by which 30 it is fastened to the mattrasses, or to the sacking before mentioned. The close stool channel of this seat, as well as that of the drawers (8, Fig. 3), may be of the same piece or of several pieces, either sewn or twisted, and brought to meet the chamber pot. The parts surrounding the hole may be coated to a certain distance with waterproof linen, or with ordinary or varnished leather, 35 and in that case the close stool seat may be employed without any kind of channel. The channel of the close stool seat may be shut at its inferior opening and from the vase, and it may be fixed to the close stool seat or to any other part by an elastic spring. The inferior opening of this channel