Specification of Joseph Theodose Masbon : apparatus for carrying invalid persons, &c.

  • Masbon, Joseph Theodose.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Theodose Masbon : apparatus for carrying invalid persons, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MashorCs Imp7^ovements in Apparatus for Carrying Invalid Persons, lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying Invalid, Wounded, Sick, and other Persons,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Theodose Masbon, my executors or administrators, 5 by an instrument in writing under my, or theip, 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 he filed in the Great Seal Patent OflQ.ce within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 10 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Theodose Masbon, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, 15 that is to say :— The apparatus forming the subject-matter of this Invention although comparatively light is very strong, it is by preference made of tubular iron, but it may be made of wood, it is not wide when open, and when closed it occupies very little room. It can be used by one person, and 20 may be made when required into a seat supported by preference on two wheels, so that one person may with ease remove another from one room to another, or into a garden, to sea or other baths, or to any required place or places he may desire. The apparatus may also be used as a stretcher to carry the wounded and sick, and to ascend stairs ; 25 and is of such a size as to admit of its passing through doorways to convey the sick or wounded to a bed, operating table, or other place. The accompanying Drawings are views of this apparatus. Pigure 1 is an elevation and Pigure 2 a plan shewing it in its position as a stretcher. It is covered with stout canvas or other like suitable 30 material shown by red lines in the Pigures. The sides a of the apparatus are by preference made of tubular iron strengthened by pieces of wood d ; the side pieces a are provided with handles h, to work the apparatus. The side pieces a are each pro¬ vided with a hinge c, so that each' half of the apparatus cai4 be folded 35 up, as seen at Pigure 5, but to keep them when required in a straight line the collars or guides d are used; one of these collara with the hinge is shown detached at Pigures 3 and 4. The collar is not only