Specification of Ormrod Coffeen Evans : abdominal truss.

  • Evans, Ormrod Coffeen.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Specification of Ormrod Coffeen Evans : abdominal truss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1862, ^nd May. 1297. Abdominal Truss, {This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ormrod Coffeen Evans at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd May 1862. I, Ormrod Coffeen Evans, of 20, Church Street, Old Kent Road, in the 5 County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Abdominai Truss, intended for the more Perfect Support and Cure of Hernia,” to be as follows:— The truss consists in being made with six instead of one or two pads as in most instruments of this class. Two hernial, two iliac, and two lumbar. The 10 hernial pads are connected one with the other by (what I shall here term) a pubic bar, which is a steel or iron bar extending from the one to the other, and which is made in two seperate pieces and united by a set screw in a manner so as to form a slide joint, and this, in order to enable the wearer as well as operator to adjust the pads at will to the width of the pelvis and 15 position of the hernial ring or rings, reference being had to the accom¬ panying Drawings. Fig. I. is a view of the truss, full size, for a medium sized person. At Ah Ah are conical hernial pads, which when applied to a case of single rupture though the truss is always made double, need not of necessity partake of the 20 same form on both sides. These pads, as before stated, are connected one with the other by a bar L, which is formed in two pieces {n\ wh) and united into one by a set screw (s), and is attached at each end to its respective pad by a ball and socket (indicated by dotted lines (a, t,) or any other device, by which the same or similar universal movement of the pad is attained when A
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