An Apparatus for Efficaciously Removing the Waste Liquid from Vaginal Injections.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Apparatus for Efficaciously Removing the Waste Liquid from
Vaginal Injections.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Huelser & Co. of 142 Fleet Street in the City
of London, Solicitors of Patents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a
communication to me from abroad by Philipp Adolph Adelmann, Doctor of Medicine,
of Metz in the Empire of Germany, Physician to be as follows:-
This invention has for its purpose to remove the inconveniences attendant on the
usual mode of administering injections into the vagina by means of the irrigating
apparatus. The injections are generally applied to the person when in a sitting or
cowering posture, which is not only very inconvenient but also prejudicial to a
perfect attainment of the desired purpose, which can only be ensured by making said
injections while the person occupies a more or less horizontal position. This leads
generally, particularly when large quantities of liquid are employed, to moistening
the dress, bedding or room, or it necessitates the attendance of another person for
pressing down the fore edge of, and emptying, the bed vessel.
The apparatus forming the object of this invention and intended to obviate the
above inconveniences, allows vaginal injections to be performed in a recumbent or
lying position of the person, while the liquid, even when considerable quantities
thereof are employed, is completely drawn off and conducted into a pail or
accumulating vessel, so as to preclude any moistening of the be lding, dress or room.
The improved apparatus essentially consists of a circular or other vessel having at
the bottom a muffle for conducting the liquid through an india rubber or other tube,
attached thereto, into a pail or other receptacle, and at the top on one side a broad
slightly concave, receiving pan, the bottom of which gradually ascends outwardly, the
sides being of triangular shape. The outer edge of said pan is provided with two
symmetrically adjoining segmental recesses and at the bottom with a cross rib or stay,
secured so as to be tangential to these recesses.
To use the improved apparatus, the person lies down crosswise on the bed, puts her
legs on chairs on either side of the pail, advances to the edge of the bed and draws
the pan so far under her as to cause the point formed by the segmental recesses to lie
closely before the point of the oss sacrum, while only the soft or fleshy parts are in
contact with the pan. By the weight of the body the cross stay referred to is pressed
into the bedding and thereby secures the apparatus in its position, while the soft or
fleshy parts are firmly pressed against the pan, thus producing a water-tight separation
of the apparatus from the bedding. The liquid flowing back from the vagina when
using the irrigating device passes over the pan into the vessel and hence through the
tube attached thereto into the pail or other receptacle.
To facilitate the carrying of the improved apparatus by the physician, the vessel
may be made from soft indiarubber or other convenient substance or the pan may be
secured hinge-fashion to the vessel to allow the apparatus being folded up.
Dated this 12th day of October 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Efficaciously Removing the Waste Liquid from.
Vaginal Injections.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Huelser & Co., of 142 Fleet Street, in the
City of London, Solicitors of Patents, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, a communication to me from abroad by Philipp Adolph Adelmann of Metz,
in the Empire of Germany, Doctor of Medicine, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to the appliances for removing the waste liquid from vaginal
injections and has for its object to obviate the inconveniences arising from the use of
the means hitherto employed for the said purpose. The injections referred to which
are generally made by means of the irrigating apparatus necessitate in most cases
an incommodious, sitting or cowering posture of the respective person, which more-
over prevents satisfactory ablution. The only efficacious injection can be performed
when the person occupies a lying position, which however, particularly with the use
of relatively large quantities of injection liquid, is conducive to moistening the dress,
hedding or room, or calls for the attendance of another person to press down the
front edge of the vessel, which has also to be emptied apart.
Reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed,
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section along line I-II Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 a top view of the improved apparatus, which allows the injections in question
to be made in a lying position of the person while the waste liquid, also when used
in considerable quantity, is conducted completely into a pail or accumulating
receptacle and any moistening of bed, dress or room is avoided.
The vessel A is connected with a broad slightly concave receiving pan B the bottom
of which gradually ascends outwardly while it is laterally determined by sides bb.
The outer edge of pan B has two segmental recesses 1,262 forming between them the
point b³. Close to the outer edge and below the discharge pan B is provided a cross
rib or stay b¹ and the vessel A has in the centre of its bottom a muffle a adapted to
receive the end of a tube of indiarubber or other mate: ial for conducting the liquid
into a pail or other receptacle.
When using the improved appliance, the person lies down crosswise on the bed,
places her legs on chairs on each side of the pail or other receptacle, advances to the
edge of the bed and draws the discharge pan B so far under her, that the point 63
lies immediately before the point of the oss sacrum, while only the fleshy parts lie on
the pan. The above mentioned cross stay b¹ is pressed into the bedding by the weight
of the body and thereby holds the apparatus securely in position, while the fleshy
parts are firmly pressed against the rim of the pan B and a water-tight separation is
ensured. When now the irrigating device is applied the liquid returning from the
vagina flows over pan B into the vessel A and hence through the tube attached to the
muffle a into a pail or other receptacle.
For the purpose of facilitating the carrying of the improved apparatus by physicians,
the vessel A may be made from soft indiarubber or similar material. Or a link or
hinge joint may be provided between said vessel and the pan B, whereby the vessel A
and pan B can be folded together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
An apparatus for removing the liquid from vaginal injections, characterised by the
broad and slightly concave discharge pan B connected with the vessel A and having

page_text: an outwardly ascending bottom and two segmental recesses 62 62 adapted to be brought.
into close contact with the respective fleshy parts of the body, said pan being provided
at the bottom with a vertical cross rib or stay 61 adapted to be driven into the bedding
by bodily weight and securing the apparatus in its position during use, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 19th dow of July 1890
HUELSER & Co.,
Attorneys.