Improved springless truss / [Mathias Reimanns].

  • Reimanns, Mathias.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Improved springless truss / [Mathias Reimanns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N°2205 A.D. 1900 Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1900—Accepted, 10th Mar., 1900 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Communicated from abroad by Mathias Reimanns, of Valkenburg (L), Holland, Physician. Improved Springless Truss. I, Herbert Seftox-Jones, of the Firm of TVr. P. Thompson and Co., British and loreign Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, G, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancashire, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 5 Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer¬ tained in and by the following statement: — The present invention relates to a truss, which has no spring and is distin¬ guished by this and other advantages, and calculated to render special service 10 for the treatment of hernia. It is well known that the usual truss provided with a spring is not efficient in restraining hernia, because the spring cannot have sufficient force to effec¬ tively press in the part, -without occasioning the patient severe pain, either in the back or at the place of the injury. Id Moreover such a spring truss rarely fits the body properly, consequently it is liable to be displaced and to allow the hernia to escape. Moreover the ordinary truss inconveniences the wearer in his work, especially in the case of manual labour, causing him to lay it aside, whereby he may become permanently disabled. 20 Attempts have been made to replace the springs by bands of india rubber; but these also do not realise the required painless^ action nor are they efficient in the requisite support. Their imperfections are especially manifest in the case of a double hernia which must be efficiently supported. The improved truss which forms the subject of the present application for 25 Letters Patent is designed to obviate these drawbacks. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which The truss consists of the elastic band 1 capable of being lengthened as requisite, without loss of elasticity on application or by use. To one side thereof is fixed the plate 2 with two studs 3 and 4 and there is fixed 30 at the other side a strong (preferably calf leather) strap S with holes by which it is secured on the stud 3 of the plate. There is also attached to this end of the strap an adjustable plate 6 usually made somewhat smaller than the first plate, but may be of any convenient size. At suitable distances and transversely with regard to the main band are attached 35 thereto two narrower bands 7 and 8, also elastic. They are adjustable by means of buckles 9 9 and have each at their end a strap 10 with holes attachable to the stud 4 of the plate 2 and to the stud 11 of the adjustable plate 6 respectively. The application of the truss is as follows: — The patient passes it round his body and adjusts the fixed plate 2 over the 40 injured part. In case of a double hernia (Fig. 3) one of which is usually smaller than the other, then the adjustable plate 6 is used to cover the smaller one. [.Price 8</.j