Specification of David Oppenheimer : surgical needle.

  • Oppenheimer, David.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of David Oppenheimer : surgical needle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Oppenheimer's Improved Surgical Needle._ and they are provided with a downwardly inclined pin or stud extending from the inner side of one jaw to or nearly to the other jaw. The ends of the jaws being bevilled form a notch into which the thread is pressed, thus extending the jaws, and allowing the thread to pass down between them and below the pin. The two ends of the thread aie then diawn 5 •upward, and the pin or stud prevents it from coming out, the two ends lying in the grooves of the jaws, and passing out through the end of the needle. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said David Oppenheimer in the Great Seal Patent Office 10 on the 23rd June 1875. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, David Oppenheimeu, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 15 Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said David Oppenheimer, Her special licence that I, the said David Oppenheimer, my executors, administrators, and 20 assigns, or such others as I, the said David Oppenheimer, my 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 25 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ An Improved Needle especially Applicable for Surgical Purposes,” communicated to me from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David Oppenheimer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing 30 under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner 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. 35