Improvements in Absorbent Pads for Absorbing Discharges in Child- bed and other Discharges.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application 28th Mar 1800
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1900
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 13th Jan.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Absorbent Pads for Absorbing Discharges in Child-
bed and other Discharges.
We, SOUTHALL BROS. & BARCLAY LTD., of Lower Priory, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Chemists, and JOIN BARCLAY, Director
of Southall Bros. & Barclay Ltd., aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described on an
invention for which Letters Patent were granted to Alfred Southall and
Thomas Barclay No. 16,940 dated 8th September 1893.
In order that the present invention may be the better understood we remark
that it is pointed out in the specification of the said patent that the absorbent
power of a pad is materially increased by providing an upper and lower layer
or a series of layers of absorbent wool or other absorbent material and arranging
between the upper and lower layers or between each pair of the series of layers
a piece of absorbent gauze; and the said specification describes and represents
methods of folding and making up absorbent pads so as to have absorbent
gauze interposed between layers of absorbent wool or other like absorbent
material.
The object of the present invention is to obtain the advantages of the said
patented pads in a simpler manner than is obtained by the methods of folding
and making the pads described, represented and claimed in the specification of
the said patent.
In making a pad according to the present invention we take two pads one
of the ordinary width and the other preferably of about one half the width of
an ordinary pad. The wider pad has the ordinary terminal loops by which it
is attached to the pad suspender but the narrower pad is without attaching
loops. The narrower pad is placed upon that side of the wider pad which when
the pad is in use constitutes the inner or wearing side, the ends of the
narrower pad being sewn to the ends of the wider pad at the parts where the
wider pad passes into the attaching loops. There is thus formed a compound
pad the inner and narrower pad of which occupies the middle of the inner or
wearing side of the wider pad.
The absorbent sheath or covering of each of the two pads of the compound
pad is made preferably in the form of a seamless tube but the tubular absorbent
gauze sheaths or coverings described may be made by stitching the two longi-
tudinal edges of strips of gauze together. In the latter case the two pads
are placed with the stitched sides of the two tubular sheaths or coverings
presented to each other.
The narrower pad of the compound pad may be sewn to the wider pad along
the middle as well as at its ends.
Pads made according to the said invention when used by females for the

page_text: absorption of catamenial discharges readily adapt themselves to the person of
the wearer.
Pads made according to the said invention may be provided with absorbent
materials of the kinds described, represented and claimed in the Complete
Specification of Letters Patent granted to Alfred Southall, Thomas Barclay and
John Barclay No. 20,040 dated 10th September 1896. And pads made according
to the said invention may be rendered antiseptic by the addition to the
absorbent material of antiseptic agents such for example as perchloride of
mercury and boracic acid.
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Improvements in Absorbent Pads for Absorbing Discharges in Child-
beds and other Discharges.
We, SOUTHALL BROS. & BARCLAY LTD., of Lower Priory, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Chemists, and JOHN BARCLAY, Director
of Southall Bros. & Barclay Ltd., aforesaid, 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 statement:
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The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described on an
invention for which Letters Patent were granted to Alfred Southall and
Thomas Barclay No. 16,940 dated 8th September 1893.
In order that the present invention may be the better understood we remark
that it is pointed out in the specification of the said patent that the absorbent
power of a pad is materially increased by providing an upper and lower layer
or a series of layers of absorbent wool or other absorbent material and arranging
between the upper and lower layers or between each pair of the series of layers,
a piece of absorbent gauze; and the said specification describes and represents
methods of folding and making up absorbent pads so as to have absorbent
gauze interposed between layers of absorbent wool or other like absorbent
material.
The object of the present invention is to obtain the advantages of the said
patented pads in a simpler manner than is obtained by the methods of folding
and making the pads described, represented and claimed in the specification of
the said patent.
In making a pad according to the present invention we take two pads one
of the ordinary width and the other preferably of about one half the width of
an ordinary pad. The wider pad has the ordinary terminal loops by which it
is attached to the pad suspender but the narrower pad is without attaching
loops. The narrower pad is placed upon that side of the wider pad which when
the pad is in use constitutes the inner or wearing side, the ends of the
narrower pad being sewn to the ends of the wider pad at the parts where the
wider pad passes into the attaching loops. There is thus formed a compound
pad the inner and narrower pad of which occupies the middle of the inner or
wearing side of the wider pad.
The absorbent sheath or covering of each of the two pads of the compound
pad is made preferably in the form of a seamless tube but the tubular absorbent
gauze sheaths or coverings described may be made by stitching the two longi-

page_text: tudinal edges of strips of gauze together. In the latter case the two pads
are placed with the stitched sides of the two tubular sheaths or coverings
presented to each other.
The narrower pad of the compound pad may be sewn to the wider pad along
the middle as well as at its ends.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in plan a compound absor-
bent pad made according to the said invention; Figure 2 is a side elevation of
the same, the ends being in longitudinal section and Figure 3 is a cross section "
on the line x, x Figure 1.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the principal pad of the compound absorbent pad and 6 is the supple-
mentary or narrower pad occupying the middle of the upper face of the principal
pad the said supplementary or narrower pad b being attached to the wider
pada by sewing the ends of the two pads together at c, c. The two pads may
be secured by sewing along the middle or along the longitudinal edges of the
narrower or supplementary pad the sewing along the middle or edges of the
narrower pad being preferably in addition to the end or cross sewing but the said
end or cross sewing may be dispensed with.
The absorbent material of each pad is contained in a tube or sheath of absor-
bent gauze the tube or sheath for the principal pad a being of a somewhat
greater length than the pad a proper so that by doubling the two ends of the
said sheath upon themselves, after the absorbent wool or the like has been made
to occupy the middle of the length of the said tube or sheath, and sewing the
said doubled parts, loops d, d are formed at the two ends of the principal pad a
by which the compound pad may be secured to the person of the wearer.
Pads made according to the said invention when used by females for the
absorption of catamenial discharges readily adapt themselves to the person of
the wearer.
Pads made according to the said invention may be provided with absorbent
materials of the kinds described, represented and claimed in the Complete
Specification of Letters Patent granted to Alfred Southall, Thomas Barclay and
John Barclay No. 20,040 dated 10th September 1896. And pads made according
to the said invention may be rendered antiseptic by the addition to the
absorbent material of antiseptic agents such for example as perchloride of
mercury and boracic acid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
we claim as the said invention :--
The improvements in absorbent pads herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing the said improvements consisting in arranging
or superposing one pad on another thereby producing a compound pad, the
upper or superposed pad being of a somewhat less width than the fower or
principal pad and occupying the middle of the upper face of the said lower or
principal pad substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
Dated the Fifth day of December 1899.
SOUTHALL BROS. & BARCLAY LIMD.,
By
BY THOMAS BARCLAY, }
A. W. SOUTHALL,
JOHN BARCLAY.
Directore.