IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUSSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stringer Weston, of Tenterden, in the County of
Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUSSES."
Sealed the 28th November 1862, and dated the 3rd June 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stringer Weston at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd
June 1862.
I, STRINGER WESTON, of Tenterden, in the County of Kent, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUSSES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in trusses. For these
purposes the pad is mounted on and carried by a metal disc or plate, which
has two studs or projections thereon, which enter through holes in the back
of the pad. On either side of these studs or projections is a half-elliptical
spring, which is fixed to the disc or plate, so that the ends of the springs rest
against and press the pad outwards, yet allow of its moving on the projections
or studs in any direction. On the disc or plate is attached one. end of a bent
wire or rod, by means of a pin joint, so that it is capable of movement. This.
bent wire or rod ascends up nearly to the hip. At the other end of this wire.
or rod there is a hook or other means of attaching it to a strap, which passes
over the hip and behind the back of the person who is wearing the truss ; .the..
other end of this strap is then passed over the other hip, and is attached to.
the end of another wire or rod, which is by its other end fixed to the disc or

page_text: plate, and ascends some distance from the disc up towards the hip last
mentioned. One end of a second strap is attached to the end of another wire
or rod, which is also attached to the disc or plate, and descends some distance
below it. This strap passes between the legs of the person wearing the truss,
and then ascends up behind the person in an inclined direction, and is made
fast to the other strap near where it passes over the hip last mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stringer Weston in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd December 1862.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STRINGER
WESTON, of Tenterden, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Stringer Weston, Her special licence that I, the said Stringer Weston, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Stringer
Weston, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and 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 TRUSSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Stringer Weston, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
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 be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office.
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stringer Weston, do, hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in, what manner the same is, to be performed,
to be particularly described. and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:
This Invention has for its object improvements in, trusses. For these
purposes, the pad is mounted on and carried by, a metal disc or plate, which
has two studs or projections thereon, which enter through holes in the back

page_text: of the pad. On either side of these studs or projections is a half-elliptical
spring, which is fixed to the dise or plate, so that the ends of the springs rest
against and press the pad outwards, yet allow of its moving on the projections
or studs in any direction. On the disc or plate is attached one end of a bent
wire or rod, by means of a pin joint, so that it is capable of movement. This
bent wire or rod ascends up nearly to the hip. At the other end of this wire
or rod there is a hook or other means of attaching it to a strap, which passes
over the hip and behind the back of the person who is wearing the truss.
The other end of this strap is then passed over the other hip, and is attached
to the end of another wire or rod, which is by its other end fixed to the disc
or plate, and ascends some distance from the disc up towards the hip last
mentioned. One end of a second strap is attached to the end of another wire
or rod, which is also attached to the disc or plate, and descends some distance
below it. This strap passes between the legs of the person wearing the truss,
and then ascends up behind the person in an inclined direction, and is made
fast to the other strap near where it passes over the hip last mentioned.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
The Drawing represents the pad of a truss, having means of attaching the
requisite straps thereto, according to my Invention. a is a disc or plate,
which in the arrangement shown is attached by studs to two half-elliptical
springs, the ends of which can slide in grooves formed in the pad, as shewn in
the Drawing or the disc or plate a may be attached to the pad; by having
two studs passing into holes in the pad, to guide them in the movement of
the disc or plate to and from the pad, similar half elliptical springs being used
between the pad and the disc or plate. I would, however, state that the use
of springs is not essential, as the disc or plate may be connected directly to
the pad; b is a bent wire or rod, attached by a pin joint to the disc or plate a,
so as to be able to move on such pin joint. This bent wire or rod has at its
outer end a button, or stud, or hook c. This bent wire b ascends nearly to
the hip of the wearer, where the end of a strap is attached to the end of the
bent wire by the hook, or button, or stud c. This strap passes over the hip
and behind the back, and the other end of the strap is brought over the other
hip to the front of the person, and attached to a hook, or button, or stud, at
e of another bent wire or rod d, which is fixed to the disc, as shown; f is
another bent wire or rod, one end of which is fixed to the disc or plate a, and
at the other end there is to be a hook, or button, or stud, to which a strap is
to be attached, which is to pass between the legs of the wearer, and to rise up
in an inclined direction towards the hip last mentioned.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
combined arrangement of a disc or plate a, and wires or rods b, d, f, as
berein explained:
In witness whereof, I, the said Stringer Weston, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
STRINGER WESTON. (L.B.)