IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR LIFTING PATIENTS OFF BEDS AND OTHER SURFACES USED FOR RECLINING UPON
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Denne, of the County Lunatic Asylum,
Bedford, Surgeon, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED
FOR LIFTING PATIENTS OFF BEDS AND OTHER SURFACES USED FOR RECLINING
UPON."
Sealed the 28th May 1858, and dated the 11th December 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Denne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
December 1857.
I, WILLIAM DENNE, of the County Lunatic Asylum, Bedford, Surgeon, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
USED FOR LIFTING PATIENTS OFF BEDS AND OTHER SURFACES USED FOR RECLINING
UPON," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used for lifting
patients off beds and other surfaces used for reclining. upon. For these purposes
a frame is arranged somewhat larger than the bed or surface used to recline
upon, and this frame is supported by connecting links or parallel bars, so that
it can be readily moved upward and off the bed or surface on which the
patient is resting or reclining, and such frame may be arranged to move in a
direction from head to foot or from side to side, and when raised it may be
rendered capable of being detached from the bedstead or surface on which the
patient was previously reclining. The frame is provided with straps or
supports from side to side, which pass under the patient in such manner that

page_text: when the frame is raised the patient will be lifted on the straps or supports
above mentioned. The frame may be made in parts, and suitably formed to
admit of one or more parts assuming an inclined position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Denne in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DENNE, of the County Lunatic Asylum, Bedford, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Ifer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Denne, Her special licenco that I, the said William
Denne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Denne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED FOR LIPTING PATIENTS OFF BEDS AND OTHER SURFACES USED FOR
RECLINING UPON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Denne, 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 William Denne, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used for lifting
patients off beds and other surfaces used for reclining upon. For these pur-
poses a frame is arranged, somewhat larger than the bed or surface used to
recline upon, and this framo is supported by connecting links or parallel bars,
so that it can be readily moved upward and off the bed or surface on which

page_text: the patient is resting or reclining, and such frame may be arranged to move in
a direction from head to foot or from side to side, and when raised it
may be
rendered capable of being detached from the bedstead or surface on which the
patient was previously reclining. The frame is provided with straps or
supports from side to side, which pass under the patient in such manner that
when the frame is raised the patient will be lifted on the straps or supports
above mentioned. The frame may be made in parts, and suitably formed to
admit of one or more parts assuming an inclined position.
the patient is resting or reclining, and such frame may be arranged to move in
a direction from head to foot or from side to side, and when raised it may be
rendered capable of being detached from the bedstead or surface on which the
patient was previously reclining. The frame is provided with straps or
supports from side to side, which pass under the patient in such manner that
when the frame is raised the patient will be lifted on the straps or supports
above mentioned. The frame may be made in parts, and suitably formed to
admit of one or more parts assuming an inclined position.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a bedstead, having my apparatus
applied thereto. a, a, is the frame of the bedstead: 6 is the moveable frame,
connected to the frame a of the bedstead, by means of the connecting links or
parallel bars b, b, so that it can be readily moved upward and off the bed, as
shown in Figure 2. The frame a is shewn in the Drawing arranged to move
in a direction from head to foot, but by placing the connecting links or parallel
bars b, b, at the head and foot of the bedstead, the frame a may be moved
from side to side. The connecting links or bars 6 are connected in such a
manner with the frame a, that they may be readily disconnected therefrom, so
that the frame a may be detached from the bedstead. The frame a is provided
with straps c, c, from side to side, which pass under the patient, so that when
the frame is raised the patient will be lifted on the straps. The frame a is
shewn so constructed that a part of the frame near the head of the bedstead,
by turning on hinges d, d, may be caused to assume an inclined position, as
shewn at Figure 2. In a similar manner other portions of the frame a may
be caused to assume inclined positions.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Denne, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
CHARLES LEECH,
Bedford.
W DENNE. (L.S.)