Improvements in or connected with Truss and other Surgical Pads and Pessaries.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Truss and other Surgical Pads
and Pessaries.
I, JAMES ARNOLD, of the firm of Arnold and Sons, of West Smithfield in the City
of London, Surgical Instrument Makers, do, hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention refers to truss and other surgical pads and pessaries whereby
very efficient pads and pessaries are produced, while the weight is reduced, and the
invention refers to improvements on an invention for which a patent was granted
to me the 13th June 1884 No. 8945, in the Specification of which patent I have,
described glycerine as a filling for trusses and pessaries. Pads so filled answer the
purpose well for which they are intended to be used, but they are for some
patients somewhat heavy, now the object of my present invention is to reduce this
weight to a minimum without impairing the efficiency of these surgical pads or
pessaries.
According to my invention, I employ glycerine, or vaseline, or oil, or a com-
bination thereof with moc-main or other light or suitable fibrous material as a filling
for truss and other surgical pads and pessaries. This can be accomplished by placing
the required quantity of fibrous material in the pad and filling up same with the oil or
combination of oleaginous materials such as those before referred to and securing the
same in the pad by any of the well known means, whereby I manufacture truss and
other surgical pads and pessaries wherein the weight thereof can be regulated with
the greatest nicety according to the requirements of the patient, while at the same
time they possess all the advantages of well made inflated surgical pads and
pessaries without the disadvantages attending some fibrous packed ones as now
constructed.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Truss and other Surgical Pads
and Pessaries.
I, JAMES ARNOLD of the Firm of Arnold and Sons, of West Smithfield in the City
of London, Surgical Instrument Makers do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention refers to Truss and other surgical pads and pessaries whereby very
efficient pads and pessaries are produced while the weight is reduced and the invention
refers to improvements on an invention for which a patent was granted to me the
13th June 1884 No. 8945 in the specification of which patent I have described, glycerine
as a filling for Trusses and Pessaries. Pads so filled answer the purpose well for
which they are intended to be used but they are for some patients somewhat heavy,
now the object of my present invention is to reduce this weight to a minimum
without impairing the efficiency of these surgical pads or pessaries.
According to my invention I employ glycerine, or vaseline, or oil or a combination
thereof with moc-main or other light or suitable fibrous material such for example as
flax fibre or horsehair, as a filling for truss and other surgical pads and pessaries.
This can be accomplished by placing the required quantity of fibrous material in
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page_text: the pad and filling up same with the oil or combination of oleaginous materials
such as those before referred to and securing the same in the pad by any of the
well known means, whereby I manufacture truss and other surgical pads and
pessaries wherein the weight thereof can be regulated with the greatest nicety
according to the requirements of the patient while at the same time they possess
all the advantages of well made inflated surgical pads and pessaries without the disad-
vantages attending some fibrous packed ones as now constructed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In truss and other surgical pads and pessaries the combination therewith as a
filling of glycerine vaseltine or oil or a combination thereof, with moc main or
other light fibrous material such for example as flax fibre or horse-hair, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Wounth day of To 1900