IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Graham Bennett, of No. 28, Grand Parade,.
Brighton, M.R.C.S., for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
Sealed the 1st May 1866, and dated the 7th November 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Graham Bennett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th November 1865.
I, FRANCIS GRAHAM BENNETT, of No. 28, Grand Parade, Brighton,
M.R.C.S., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WALKING OF INVALIDS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for facilitating
the walking of invalids. The apparatus is composed of a horse-shoe of
wood, by preference, about 3 feet in length, and mounted when for out-door
purposes on three wheels, one placed at each end of the horse-shoe of wood,
and one carried from the curved central portion of the horse-shoe; from this
horse-shoe are supported a pair of crutches; the crutches at their lower ends
are received into cylindrical sockets of brass fixed to uprights of wood let into
the horse-shoe, and are capable of being raised or lowered in these sockets,

page_text: and fixed by set screws; the crutches may thus be fixed at any required
height. When the apparatus is for in-door purposes I support the horse-shoe
on castors in place of on wheels.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Graham Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th May 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
GRAHAM BENNETT, of No. 28, Grand, Parade, Brighton, M.R.O.S., send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Francis Graham Bennett, Her special licence that I, the said
Francis Graham Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Francis Graham Bennett, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WALKING OF
INVALIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis
Graham Bennett, 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 Francis Graham Bennett, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for facilitating
the walking of invalids. The apparatus is composed of a horse-shoe of wood,
by preference, about 3 feet in length, and mounted when for out-door purposes

page_text: on three wheels, one placed at each end of the horse-shoe of wood, and one
carried from the curved central portion of the horse-shoe; from this-horse-shoe
are supported a pair of crutches; the crutches at their lower ends are received
into cylindrical sockets of brass fixed to uprights of wood let into the horse-
shoe, and are capable of being raised or lowered in these sockets, and fixed by
set screws; the crutches may thus be fixed at any required height. When
the apparatus is for in-door purposes I support the horse-shoe on castors in
place of on wheels.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the apparatus, and Figure 2 shows &
plan thereof.
a, a, is the horse-shoe frame to which the three wheels b, b, and c are
applied; d, d, are two crutches, the stems a' of which are arranged to slide in
sockets carried by the standards a', so that they may be raised and lowered;
they are also arranged to be fixed to the height desired by set screws, not
shown in the Drawing. In the arrangement shown three wheels are used,
which is what I prefer when the apparatus is for out-door use, but when for
in-door use I prefer to have castors in place of wheels, such as are shown in
the Drawings.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I claim the combined arrangement of the frame a, a,
with wheels or castors b, b, c, and the crutches d, d, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Graham Bennett, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.