Specification of William Edward Gedge : hygenic and inodorous apparatus for cradles or cots.

  • Gedge, William Edward.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Edward Gedge : hygenic and inodorous apparatus for cradles or cots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I - ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) 1 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th February 1864.—A communication from abroad by Geofroy-Gomez, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Surgeon-Dentist. o 10 15 f 20 I, William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for 45 A Hygienic and Inodorous Apparatus applicable to the Cradles or Cots of Children and to the Beds of Adult Invalids,” (a communication to me from abroad by Paul Geofroy-Gomez, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Surgeon Dentist,) to be as follows:— The child’s cradle or cot may be of any form, and at one of its sides will be made an opening intended to receive a drawer. On this cot will be placed a spring mattrass, in the centre of which an opening will be formed corresponding with the above-mentioned drawer which enters beneath the said mattrass. Corresponding with this drawer is a funnel-shaped basin, provided at its lower end with a valve intended to intercept the air and the gases produced by the fecal matters which fall into the drawer; on the spring mattrass is placed a woollen one, having in ist centre an opening similar to that of the spring mattrass; on this woollen mattrass is a linen sheet pierced like the mattrasses ; lastly, on this orifice is placed a cushion of round and convex form, made of caoutchouc or gutta percha, and having a tube of the same material intended to inflate it with air. At about two inches from the circumference of the opening of the cushion is glued a band of caoutchouc or