Injury, also Applicable for Use as Inhalers.
Year: 1886

page_text: Injury, also Applicable for Use as Inhalers.
I, JOHN HARRINGTON HAYWOOD, of Castle Gate, in the Town and County of
the Town of Nottingham, Surgical Appliance Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object, the manufacture of a novel, economical and
more effective device or appliance which may be used for protecting wounds, sores,
or vaccination spots and similar ailments of the human or other body from
pressure or injury and with slight modification the same device may be used as an
inbaler.
Hitherto it has been usual to employ for the protection of vaccination places
and the like, a somewhat costly device composed principally of wire, lint or other
porous material having this objection however that such devices being expensive,
it is usual for a patient to wear this shield for a considerable time with the result
that the fabric of the shield becomes saturated or covered with the exuding matter
of the wound or sore, and thus constituting a dirty or bad dressing rendering the
patient liable to erysipelas. It is the aim of this Invention to provide a cheap and
more convenient shield which may be retailed at so low a price that several of the
shields may be obtained at about the same price as one of the present shields so
that the device or shield may be thrown away after a little use, and a fresh one
applied. The same device may also by slight modification be used as an inhaler for
the use of patients requiring to inhale various vapours medicines and the like as in
consumption and other cases of disease.
In carrying out the Invention there is a soft pad formed of a suitable shape of
cotton wool or other similar suitable substance enclosed between a case of soft
cotton gauze or other suitable fabrio, and having a suitably shaped and sized hole
in it preferably about its middle. Across this central hole or opening there are
fixed or fitted crosswise two curved or bent strips or lengths of poro-plastic felt or
other similar stiff suitable substance. When using the device as a vaccination
shield the pad is shaped preferably in plan of a diamond shape but when it is
intended to use it as an inhaler it is formed with a slight extension at one side so
as to cover or enclose the nose of a person wearing it. When inhaling any
medicine or vapor a piece of cotton wool saturated or treated with the required
nedicament is placed between the two crosswise strips over the central hole, so
that on the device being placed over the mouth and nose of a patient, the desired
medicated vapor is thoroughly inhaled.

page_text: Injury, also Applicable for Use as Inhalers.
I, JOHN HARRINGTON HAYWOOD of Castle Gate, in the Town and County of
the Town of Nottingham, Surgical Appliance Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described in and by the following statement that is to say :-
'
My said Invention has for its object the manufacture of a novel, economical and
more effective device or appliance which may be used for protecting wounds, sores
or vaccination spots and similar ailments of the human or other body, from
pressure or injury, and with slight modification the same device may be used as an
inhaler.
Hitherto it has been usual to employ for the protection of vaccination places
and the like, a somewhat costly device composed principally of wire and lint or
other porous material, having this objection however that such devices being
expensive it is usual for a patient to wear a shield for a considerable time the
result being that the fabric of the shield becomes saturated or covered with the
exuding matter of the wound or sore and this constituting a dirty or bad dressing
renders the patient liable to erysipelas. It is the aim of my Invention to provide
a cheap and more convenient shield which may be retailed at such a price that
several of the shields may be obtained for about the same cost as the price of one
of the devices used at present, so that after using a shield for a short time it may
be thrown away and another applied. The same device may also by slight
modification be used as an inhaler, for the use of patients requiring to inhale
various vapours, medicines and the like, as is required sometimes in consumptive
and other cases of disease,
In carrying out my Invention for forming a device or appliance which may be
termed a shield for protecting wounds and the like, there is formed a nearly flat
soft pad, composed of cotton wool or any other similar suitable soft substance,
enclosed between a case of soft cotton gauze or other suitable fabric. This soft
pad may be formed of any suitable shape externally in plan, but a convenient
shape is that of a rhombus or approximately a diamond shape and at the centre of
the pad a hole preferably elliptical but it may be otherwise shaped is formed.
Across the central hole or opening there are suitably fixed crosswise two curved
or bent strips or short lengths of poro-plastic felt, split cane or other suitable stiff
substance each arranged so as to form an arch over the central hole and prevent
any clothing or the like from coming in contact with the wound or. sore over
which the pad is placed. It is obvious that the pad if desired in a more expensive
form may be covered with various fabrics such as silk gauze or other suitable fabrio
but as the main object of the Invention is to produce an economical shield, it is
preferred to form the device of cheap cotton materials,

page_text: When using the device as an inhaler for inhaling medicines or vapour a piece of
cotton wool saturated or treated with the required medicament is placed between
the two crosswise strips over the central hole so that on the device being placed
over the mouth and nose of a patient, the desired medicated vapour is thoroughly
inhaled. The flat pad in this case is preferably formed somewhat larger in breadth
so that a part of it may extend to and cover the nose of a patient.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I proceed to describe the same with the aid of a sheet
of explanatory drawings hereunto appended and showing one convenient form of
my new or improved device or shield.
Figure 1 on the accompanying drawings is a plan or view looking down upon
the outer side of a shield and figure, 2, is a view looking at the side, in which
figures the flat pad, 3, formed of cotton wool encased in a casing of soft cotton
gauze suitably stitched round the edges is shown as of a diamond shape or a
rhombus figure having an elliptical opening, 4, in its centre. Over this opening, 4,
there is stitched to the pad near each side of the opening the end of a short length
of finely split cane, 5, bent so as to form an arch over the opening of about an inch
in height or thereabouts and a second slightly longer length or strip of split cane, 6,
is likewise stitched by its ends close to the side at the ends of the elliptical
opening, 4, so as to cross over the other strip of cane and also form an arch.
These two strips thus form a guard and prevent anything such as clothing and the
like from touching and coming into contact with the part against which the shield
is placed. Tape or cord, 7, or other suitable material is provided at each end of
the shield for tying the device upon the arm or other part. When using the device
as an inhaler a piece of cotton wool or other suitable and convenient material is
saturated with the required medicament and inserted in the opening, 4, under the
cross pieces, 5, 6, and then by placing it to the mouth the vapour from the wool
inay be conveniently inhaled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The manufacture of a new or improved device composed of a soft pad with a
central opening having over this opening suitable cross pieces of stiff material
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.