Improvements in Supports or Shapes for the Shoulders.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 11th Jan.. 1893-Accepted. 11th Feb.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports or Shapes for the Shoulders.
I, FREDERICK CHARLES IHLEE Manager of the Teufel Remedial Appliances
Company of 61 Moor Lane in the City of London do hereby declare the nature of
this invention (a communication from Wilhelm Julius Teufel of No. 21 Reinsburg-
strasse Stuttgart in the Empire of Germany Surgical Instrument Maker) to be as
follows:-
According to this invention I construct a support or shape for keeping the
shoulders of the wearer in a proper position when there is a tendency to allow the
shoulders to drop forward but when there is no necessity for applying means for
keeping the back or spine straight.
The shoulder shape is made in the form of an elastic pad provided with one or
more springs so formed or normally bent as to tend to keep in the shoulder blades
of the wearer and this pad is provided with shoulder straps with means for
adjusting the length of same.
Dated this 15th day of March 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports or Shapes for the Shoulders.
1, FREDERICK CHARLES IHLEE, Manager of the Teufel Remedial Appliances
Company of 61 Moor Lane in the City of London do hereby declare the nature of
this invention (a communication to me from abroad by Wilhelm Julius Teufel of
No. 21 Reinsburgstrasse, Stuttgart, in the Empire of Germany, Surgical Instru-
ment Maker) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
According to this invention a support or shape is constructed so as to keep the
shoulders of the wearer in a proper position where there is a tendency to allow the
shoulders to drop forward, but when there is no necessity for applying means for
keeping the back or spine straight.
The shoulder shape is made in the form of an elastic pad provided with one or
more springs so formed or normally bent as to tend to keep in the shoulder blades
of the wearer and this pad is provided with shoulder straps with means for
adjusting the length of same.
Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings is an elevation of a suitable
form of the support or shape and
Figure 2 is a plan partly in section of the same.
The shape is made of two steel or other suitably bent springs a h rivetted
together at c and covered on the outside by a piece d of leather or the like and on
the inside by a piece of flannel or other fabric e. Instead of two springs rivetted
together it is evident that one spring may be used having a suitable form. The
leather and fabric are stitched together in such manner as to be securely beld
together and form a pad while at the same the springs are kept in place therein.
The leather and fabric are preferably provided with a series of holes ƒ so as to
allow of proper ventilation. At each end of the pad are straps g for coming over
the shoulders of the wearer and underneath and in continuation of said shoulder
straps are straps h made round where they come under the arms of the wearer and
provided with buckles i into which the straps 9 are fastened and so as to permit of
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page_text: adjustment of the length and consequently the pressure the straps exert to keep
the shoulders of the wearer in a proper position.
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 :-
A support or shape for keeping the shoulders of the wearer in a proper
position consisting of a pad containing one or more springs a‹b and having shoulder
straps g. h-substantially as described and. shown.
Dated this 11th day of January 1893
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.