IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE NURSING OR TREATMENT OF INFANTS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edward Wright, of Nottingham, Com-
mercial Traveller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE NURSING OR TREATMENT OF INFANTS."
Sealed the 12th August 1859, and dated the 16th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edward Wright
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th February 1859.
I, CHARLES EDWARD WRIGHT, of Nottingham, Commercial Traveller, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE NURSING OR TREATMENT OF INFANTS," to be
as follows:-
The improvements have for their object adaptation of means by which to
relieve nurses and others in the charge of infants from the labour attendant.
upon the support of them upon the arms, and to render the arms free for other
purposes whilst carrying a child, as well as to give more easy support with
protection from injury to the child.
The child is placed in a basket or other suitably formed receiver, cushioned
or otherwise adapted to promote the ease and comfort of the child lying
therein. Bands pass under or are connected to the sides of the receiver, and
rising above are connected to a ring or rings or other suitable means, by which
connection may be conveniently made with a spring or other hook, or other-
wise, by preference, having a swivel joint to a band, supported from the neck-

page_text: or shoulders, whilst other bands pass from the shoulder or neck band under
the arms to the ends of the receiver, to which they are connected by spring or
other hooks, or other suitable means, and the receiver is at its ends formed so
that these back bands may be readily connected thereto.
The back bands and the other supporting bands are capable of adjustment
in length. The parts are so adapted that variations may be readily made in
the angular or inclined position of the child.
By the use of such apparatus, a child in its receiver may be readily
supported upon the lap whilst the nurse is sitting, and then carried in front or
at the sides, or even, if desired, at the back without disconnection.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Edward Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDWARD WRIGHT, of Nottingham, Commercial Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Edward Wright, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Edward Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Charles Edward Wright, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE NURSING OR TREATMENT OF
INFANTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Edward
Wright, 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 Charles Edward Wright, do licreby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: back, somewhat as braces, and is there connected at to another band d, d,
the ends of which pass forwards under the arms; and by spring hook, or such
like connections d¹ thereon, are capable of ready attachment to and discon-
nection with the end staples e, e, of the receiver a, and to facilitate adjustment
of the weight, or otherwise; the staples c, e, are each formed with three loops
(1) (2) (8) each of which is capable of receiving a hook d', or the centre
ones of them may serve as supports from the hooks of a rocking frame. The
back band d, d, is formed in one and passed through one eye c³ carried by the
band c, and the two ends may be varied in length one in relation to the other
by simply slipping one part farther through the eye c² than the other, or by
means of suitable buckles or such like means, the adjustment of lengths for
angular or inclined positions or otherwise may readily be effected. The
bands 6, 6, are also capable of being slided so as to obtain adjustment to
them.
· By the use of such apparatus a child in its receiver may be readily sup-
ported upon the lap whilst the nurse is sitting, and then carried in front or at
the sides, or even, if desired, at the back without disconnection; and, if
desired, the receiver a may be held and carried about simply by the use of the
bands b.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise arrangement of details shown, as these may be
varied; but what I do claim is the adaptation and combination of means
forming apparatus for facilitating the nursing of infants, substantially as
explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edward Wright, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
CHARLES EDWARD WRIGHT. (L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM BROOKES,
73, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agent.