Improvements in Receptacles for Surgeons' Spread Plasters, Dressings, and other Materials.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sent.. 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Receptacles for Surgeons' Spread Plasters,
Dressings, and other Materials.
We, CHARLES TOWNSEND, St. Mary's, Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, JOHN
BOUCHER, Parham House, Tyndall's Park, Clifton, and HENRY HOLDEN
TOWNSEND, Tilehurst, Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, Wholesale Druggists, trading
as Ferris & Co., at Union Street, Bristol, do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention to be as follows:-
The receptacle consists of a box with or without a lid having a longitudinal axis
fixed in it for supporting a tube on which the plaster or other material is wound.
This axis passes through a hole at one end of the box and enters a socket at the
opposite end.
The perforated end of the box is fitted on the outside with a slide which covers
the end or head of the axis keeping the latter in place and it may also be formed
so as to hold a card or label denoting the contents of the receptacle.
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of Santambar 1902
CHARLES TOWNSEND.
JOHN BOUCHER.
H. HOLDEN TOWNSEND.
Improvements in Receptacles for Surgeons' Spread Plasters,
Dressings, and other Materials.
We, CHARLES TOWNSEND, St. Mary's, Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, JOHN
BOUCHER, Parham House, Tyndall's Park, Clifton, and HENRY HOLDEN
TOWNSEND, Tilehurst, Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, Wholesale Druggists, trading
as Ferris & Co., at Union Street, Bristol, 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:-—
The receptacle consists of a box with or without a lid having a longitudinal axis
fixed in it for supporting a tube on which the plaster or other material is wound.
This axis passes through a hole at one end of the box and enters a socket at the
opposite end.
The perforated end of the box is fitted on the outside with a slide which covers.
the end or head of the axis keeping the latter in place and it may also be formed
so as to hold a card or label deuoting the contents of the receptacle.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure is a longitudinal vertical section of a receptacle made according to this
invention.
Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same and Figure 3 a right hand end
elevation with the slide e pulled out.
a is the longitudinal axis and is its head. c is a slide working in grooves in
the end of the receptacle. As shown in Figure 1 the head is held between the
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page_text: end of the box and the slide c.
The slide preferably has three of its edges
turned over as shown to receive a card or label.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The slide at the end of the box for holding the axis in place substantially
as described.
2. Receptacles for surgeons' spread plasters dressings and other materials
substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 9th day of Juno 1804
CHARLES TOWNSEND.
JOHN BOUCHER.
H. HOLDEN TOWNSEND.