An Improved Medical Appliance or Article of Furniture for Use in Hospitals and Sick-rooms.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Medical Appliance or Article of Furniture for Use in
Hospitals and Sick-rooms.
I, MARCUS LOWTHER, of Thornton Ryde, Isle of Wight, Gentleman, M.L. do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object the construction of an article of furniture of great
assistance to nurses & surgeons in dressing wounds, & administering medicines
& other necessaries to patients. For the purpose of my invention I make a case of
any required dimensions in any suitable material proferably of wood, open at one end,
into this fit a sliding tray or drawer having one or more handles; across the inside
of this drawer I place a spindle or spindles fitted into sockets at their extremities
over which I roll in continuous lengths lint, linen, or other bandages, & of different
widths. By means of an aperture cut in the top, or other part of the table, the lint
can be drawn out as required without creases, thus facilitating the spreading of the
ointments or dressings. I affix to the most convenient part of the table, sockets and
receptacles for the convenient arrangement of the instruments, appliances, &
medicaments necessary in such cases.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Medical Appliance or Article of Furniture for Use in
Hospitals and Sick Rooms.
MARCUS LOWTHER "Thornton" Ryde, Isle of Wight, Rear Admiral, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to an improved article of furniture for containing the
necessary medicaments, as well as linen, lint and other articles used as bandages by
nurses, surgeons and others, being made in the shape of a sliding drawer, or a box
with one or more lids or covers. If made in the shape of a sliding drawer 1 fit
lengthwise in same a spindle or spindles on which is wound the lint, linen &c. either
the whole length of the spindle, or in various lengths on separate spindles.
The medicaments may be placed on a shelf or shelves inside the drawer, and the
instruments in brackets or pockets on the ends of the casing in which the drawer
slides. If made in the form of a Box the spindle may be placed widthways, instead
of as in the previous example, the box if divided into two or more compartments by
a movable or fixed partition or partitions, containing a roll of lint or other bandaging
material in one compartment and the liniments and instruments in the others, or the
said instruments may be placed in sockets or pockets attached to the outside of
the box.
In order that my Invention may be more readily understood and explained in
detail, I have bereunto annexed a sheet of Drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts on all the Figs. alike.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a plan of the same, with the lids removed, showing transverse rollers.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of one of the bearings in which the shaft or spindles revolve.
Fig. 6 is an end view of a spindle on which the mandaging material is wound.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal view of same.
In Figs. 1 and 2. a is the drawer sliding in a frame or casing having a flat top on
which the handnging material e may be laid or stretched out so that the ointment or
other medicament may be spread thereon, are the several spindles on which the
bandaging materials are wound supported in bearings, instead of having separate
spindles I may employ only one spindle running from end to end of the drawer, the
ointments or other medicaments may be placed on the shelf d inside the drawor,
whilst the instruments may be placed as hereinbefore stated at the ends of the casing
at as shown.
At Figs. 3 and 4 which shows the Box shape a is the box, shown in the drawing
divided into three compartiments a³, a and a by partitions a³, in compartments a
and a are shown spindles reaching from side to side of the box, (instead of from
end to end as shown at Fig. 2) supported in hearings, the lint or other handage c is
shewn stretched on the top of the box ready for the ointment to be spread over its
surface, it will be seen by reforring to Fig. 3 that the hinges of the lid covering
compartment a are attached to the side of the box, and at right angles to the hinges
of the lids covering compartments a² and a', at Fig. 5a is one end of the sliding
drawer having the bearing 1 prefer to use attached thereto, the said boaring may
have a spring or springs beneath it, so as to raise or lower the spindle or spindles
according to the amount of bandaging material on same.
At Figs. 6 and 7 is shewn a spindle having a square hole cut therein, which part
extends through one side or end of the box; but flush or level with the outside of
the box or drawer; when lint or other landaging material is to be wound on the said
spindle, a handle or key is used having a shank to fit the said square hole, cut in the
end of said spindle, by which means the aforesaid lint or other bandaging material is
easily wound on to a spindle.
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 :—
1. The article of Furniture in the form of a sliding drawer as illustrated at Fig. 1
for the use of Surgeons, nurses and others having one spindle only reaching from end
to end of the Drawer, two or more spindles running parallel to each other, or as
illustrated at Fig. 2 of the Drawings annexed for the purpose as heroin substantially
described.
2. The article of Furniture in the form of a square or rectangular box, for the use
of Surgeons, nurses and others, having two or more compartments, in one or more of
which said compartments is mounted a spindle or spindles in bearings, from side to
side of the box, in the manner and for the purpose, as herein substantially described
and illustrated at Figs. 3 and 4 of the Drawings annexed.
3. The use in connection with this improved article of Furniture for the use of
Surgeons, nurses and others of the improved form of bearing with or without springs,
as heroin substantially described, and illustrated at Figs. 2, 4 and 5 of the Drawings
annexed.
4. The use in connection with this improved article of Furniture of the spindle
having a square hole cut or made in one end, for the purpose as herein substantially
described and illustrated at Figs. 6 and 7 of the Drawings annexed.
Dated this 4th lave of ... 100
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.