Improvements in trusses / [William Furness].

  • Ewanian.
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in trusses / [William Furness]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 7385 A.D. 1895 Dafe cf Application, 11th Apr., 1895 Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1895—Accepted, 1st Feb., 1896 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Trusses. I, WILL-IAM Furness, of 81 Countess Street, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Iron Founder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— • This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of single or double 5 hernial trusses designed to fit different sized persons, and to yield to all the various movements of the wearer, aud equal pressure is put on the pad when in any position. There may be a small electric battery fixed in the pad if desired or thought necessary. According to this invention, I employ a double curved pad or support covered 19 with thick felt or other soft material, which fits in the small of the back of the wearer. A steel wire supporting bar is fixed to the curved pad, and bent in an outward, upward, and forward direction, so as to pass round the leg or thigh, and to the end of this wire is fixed the pad. When this truss is applied to a person, the double curved pad serves as a bearing 15 on the back portion of the hip bones, and these back bearings cause the extremity of the bar to be raised and lowered as the said bearings are raised and lowered, hence when the wearer of the truss stoops, the supporting bar follows the movement of the body, and lowers the end of the bar at the front of the body, and thus maintains the pad in the proper position over the hernia, and as the person assumes 20 an upright position, the supporting bar again follows the movement of the body, and raises the pad as the front portion of the body rises, and consequently the pad remains undisturbed in its position over the hernia. Two zinc cells may be placed in the pad, such cells communicating with the supporting bar, and double curved pad which by a stud or studs makes a metal 25 contact between the supporting bar and the zinc cells, and the body of the wearer. The supporting bar can be adjusted to fit persons of different sizes by expanding or contracting the same, and imparting more or less curvature to the intermediate arch, which is sufficiently flexible to permit of bending. 30 Dated this 10th day of April 1895. BRIERLEY & HOWARD, Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Trusses. 3/, I, William Furness, of 81 Countess Street, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of single or double 40 hernial trusses designed to fit different sized persons, and to yield to all the various [ I'rice 8d.]