IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUSSES FOR RUPTURES."
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Binner, of Holbeck, near Leeds, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUSSES FOR RUPTURES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Binner at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd September 1879.
THOMAS BINNER, of Holbeck, near Leeds, in the County of York.
MENTS IN TRUSSES FOR RUPTURES."
"IMPROVE-
The object of my Invention is to provide safe and secure means or apparatus for
preventing ruptured bowels from protruding, at the same time causing little or no
inconvenience to the user or wearer.
For this purpose I employ straps of ordinary construction for securing the truss
which consists of a spiral spring of a highly flexible nature, so that it will readily
give to the expansion or contraction of the body (at the same time providing a
sufficient support for the ruptured bowels); this is employed instead of the ordinary
stuffed pad, and covered with leather or other suitable material. The face of the
spring which comes next to the body may be covered by a pad or some soft
inaterial such as seal skin or the like to prevent "chafing" or other injury to the
skin or body.
By the application of this apparatus the person to whom it is applied may take
exercise or move the body in any required manner without injury to the ruptured
part.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Binner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd March
1880.
THOMAS BINNER, of Holbeck, near Leeds, in the County of York.
MENTS IN TRUSSES FOR RUPTURES."
"IMPROVE-
The object of my Invention is to provide safe and secure means or apparatus for
preventing ruptured bowels from protruding, at the same time causing little or no
inconvenience to the user or wearer.
For this purpose I employ straps of ordinary construction for securing the truss
which consists of a spiral spring of a hightly flexible nature, so that it will readily
give to the expansion or contraction of the body (at the same time providing a
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page_text: sufficient support for the ruptured bowels); this is employed instead of the ordinary
stuffed pad, and covered with leather or other suitable material. The face of the
spring which comes next to the body may be covered by a pad or some soft
material such as seal skin or the like to prevent "chafing" or other injury to the
body or skin.
By the application of this apparatus the person to whom it is applied may take
exercise or move the body in any required manner without injury to the ruptured
part.
And in order that my Invention may be more completely understood, reference
is given to the accompanying Drawings and to the letters and marks thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2, a transverse section through A, B, Fig. 1;
Figs. 3 and 4 represent the mode of applying single and double trusses.
The straps may be of ordinary construction for securing the truss, but I by
experiment find that it is advisable to have the strap a as near as possible the
same width as the truss, and for single trusses I employ three buckling straps b, c,
and d, and an additional buckling strap e with the buckle arranged in the opposite
direction to b, c, and d, so that if in tightening up the three buckles b, c, and d,
the truss may be adjusted to the affected part by slackening or tightening the
additional buckle c.
The truss consists of a spiral spring f of a highly flexible nature, so that it will
readily give to the expansion or contraction of the body (at the same time pro-
viding a sufficient support for the ruptured bowels). On the top of the spring fis
fixed a pad g; this comes next to the body and is made of soft material, the whole
being covered up with soft hairy material such as seal skin or the like, as shewn
ath to prevent "chafing."
The truss is secured to the strap a by any convenient means through the
medium of the metal plate i.
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For a single rupture the application is shewn at Fig. 3, the belt and apparatus
being constructed as shewn at Figs. 1 and 2; but when compound or double
ruptures are to be operated upon I by preference employ two belts J and K, the
upper one of which carries the plates and me, the trusses being attached thereto
at n and o; the lower belt is passed over these to retain them in their position
and at any desired pressure upon the parts affected. The buckles and other
fastenings may be of ordinary construction.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and described by the
aid of Drawings how the same may be carried into practice, I would have it under-
stood that I do not limit myself to the precise details or configuration of the parts
I have described and shewn, as the same may be varied or modified without
departing from the principle of my Invention, but what I do claim and desire to
be secured to me by Letters Patent is:-
The arrangement, construction, and application of the various parts forming the
truss and parts connected therewith (and mere modifications of the same), for
preventing ruptured bowels from protruding, substantially as and for the purposes
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Binner, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.