Improvements in Accouchement Sheets, Babies' Napkins, Hospital Pads, and other like Articles for Absorbing Discharges.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov, 1895-Accepted, 19th Jan, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Accouchement Sheets, Babies' Napkins, Hospital
Pads, and other like Articles for Absorbing Discharges.
I, RICHARD ECROYD of 4 Clara Road, Bolton near Bradford, in the County
of York, Designer and Manufacturers Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has for its object a cheap and at the same time thoroughly
efficient absorbent sheet applicable according to size for accouchement sheets,
napkins for babies, and the like where discharges or liquids have to be absorbed
weave material in the form of a bag or series of bags side by side and of the
required shape, usually squate or oblong. Such cloth can be either of the same
density for back and front or of two different densities, and 18 so woven as to form
A single cloth on three of the four edges of the bag or bags, the two cloths being
separated from each other on the fourth side, and either left wholly open or
partially so for the purpose of stuffing or filling the same with absorbent material.
In some cases however I may make a single sheet and afterwards quilt or subdivide
the same by sewing, or I can weave it in one pocket, in overal pockets side by
side, or in two ranks of pockets, the openings being at each end with the weaving
as a single cloth in the middle, or the pockets can radiate to the outside all round.
The pockets are filled with cotton wool, wood wool, sawdust, bran, or any similar
substance for filling pads for accouchement purposes, and these can be impiegnated
with an antiseptic or not as desned, or for napkins for children or for pads used in
hospitals for surgical cases or for typhorl fever, dysentery, cholera, on other
diseases producing discharges. For napkins I should prefer the two sides of the
bag to be of the same density or closeness of texture for accouchement sheets and
pads for ty phoid fever etc. I prefer the sides to be of different densities. When
the pad is stuffed or filled the open end is sewn or in some instances the extended
unwoven webs on each side nie knotted or tied together instead
Dated the 11th day of May 1895.
WM P. THOMPSON & Co.,,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Accouchement Sheets, Babies' Napkins, Hospital
Pads, and other like Articles for Absorbing Discharges.
1, RICHARD EOROYD, of 4, Clara Road, Bolton, near Bradford, in the County
of York, Designer and Manufacturers Agent, 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 :-
This invention has for its object a cheap and at the same time a thoroughly
effective absorbent accouchement sheet, baudage, pad or baby's napkin, whereby
the discharges of liquids thereon may be absorbed.

page_text: The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which,
Figure 1 is a plan of a hospital sheet
Figure 2, a side view of said sheet
;
The material forming the cover or outside of the accouchement sheet, pad, etcetera,
is woven in one cloth at A, but is subdivided at B and C, B, the surface for receiving
the discharges being in most instances woven much less dense than the back
marked C. In the hospital sheet in Figures 1 and 2, the sheet is woven in single
cloth on three sides, but open on the fourth side so as to form a pocket. After
however it has been filled with the absorbent material hereafter mentioned, the
extended unwoven sides of the two layers are either knotted or tied together, or
by preference the two cloths are sewn together on the fourth or open side, or
can be woven together at intervals, leaving openings just wide enough to pass
in the stuffing, which openings can afterwards be closed by sewing or knotted or
tied. In large sheets it is preferable to quilt the two together here and there as
shown at five points in the drawings, or in other instances by strips or small
patches, the two cloths can be woven together at various points, they then do not
requne the quilting For a hospital sheet the four loops D are usually added for
convenience. The stuffing consists of cotton wool, sawdust, bran, silk, uoil, wool,
lineu, China grass or any similar substance used for filling pads for the purposes set
forth, and these can be impregnated with an antiseptic or not as desired.
napkins for children and for pads used in hospitals for surgical cases or for typhoul
fever, dysentery, cholera or other diseases producing discharges, an autiseptic
material is desirable In the case of Labies' unphins I prefer to form both sides
of the napkin of cloth of the same density or closeness of texture, but for hospital
sheets, bandages and pads I prefer the sides to be of different densities as shown.
For
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 18-
1. A hospital pad, accouchement sheet, baby's napkin or other like article woven
so as to form a single cloth ou three edges, but two cloths otherwise nearly
throughout their surface, thus forming a pocket or pockets, aud filled with absorbent
material, and the open edge on edges sufficiently closed to hold the absorbent
materials substantially as described.
2 The pads, sheets or napkins formed with a comparatively dense layer of cloth
on one side, and an open texture layer on the other, the two layers being woven
into one cloth on three edges of the pad, napkin or sheet for the purposes
descubed.
3. The manufacture of sheets, pads, napkins or bandages substantially as
descubed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of November 1895.
WM P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Bumingham, and London, Patent Agents.

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