Improvements in Trusses and in the Materials Used in their Manufacture and Arrangements of the same.
Year: 1888

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Improvements in Trusses and in the Materials Used in their
Manufacture and Arrangements of the same.
THOMAS ROGERS Saddler and Harness Maker Long Street Atherstone County of
Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to my Invention I make a Belt of leather of suitable width and strength
with Buckle at one end and Holes at the other for adjustment and on the belt I mount
one or more Pads made by preference with strong leather backs on which loops are
fixed and through which the belt passes securing the Pads in vertical or any position
'the lower extremity of the pad is supplied with a stud or buckle and its front suitably
stuffed and padded. To part of the belt that fits the wearer's back are one or more
thin flexible straps are attached passing through the legs which being attached to the
stud a buckle on the pad renders adjustment and pressure easy to wearer's
requirements.
Tinted this 10th day of 1984
THOMAS ROGERS,
Saddler and Harness Maker,
Atherston.

page_text: Manufacture and Arrangements of the same.
I, THOMAS ROGERS, of Long Street, Atherstone, in the County of Warwick, Saddler
and Harness Maker, 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 :-
According to my invention I make a belt of leather of suitable width and
strength with buckle at one end and holes at the other for adjustment, and on the belt
I mount one or more pads made by preference with strong leather backs on which
loops are fixed and through which the belt passes securing the pads in vertical or
any position, the lower extremity of the pad is supplied with a stud or buckle and its
front suitably stuffed and padded. To part of the belt that fits the wearer's back one
or more thin flexible straps are attached passing through the legs which being attached
to the stud or buckle on the pad renders adjustment and pressure easy to wearer's
requirements.
Fig. 1 represents a double truss constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is
a perspective view of the same as worn and Fig. 3 shews one of the pads of the same
separately in front and side elevations and in cross section.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
a is the leather belt (which passes round the wearer's waist) having an ordinary
buckle at one end and a series of holes c near the other. This belt a is perfectly
pliable and is made without the usual spring. The two pads are each marked d, they
each consist of a strong back part e made by preference of leather which on one side is
stuffed with wool or other soft substance and covered with wash leather or other
suitable soft substance or material. ff are the loops at the back of the pads through
which the belt a passes and which are made to fit the belt a tightly but so as to be
adjustable thereon. 99 are the thin flexible straps which are connected to that part
of the belt a which fits the wearer's back. The straps pass between the wearer's legs
and being severally attached to the studs h h (or instead of studs ordinary buckles
may be used) on the lower parts of the pads (see Fig. 2) adjustment and pressure is
rendered easy to the wearer's requirements.
The straps gg are by preference provided with loops as shewn for the belt a
to pass through so that the position of the straps g g can be readily adjusted, but
if preferred one or both of the straps 9 9 can be permanently fixed to the belt a.
In a single truss I of course provide only one of the pads d and I generally find
that in that case a single strap g, for passing through the legs, is sufficient.
It will be evident that the shape of the pad or pads must be varied according to
the kind of rupture for which the truss is required as will be readily understood.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In trusses for hernia the combination with the belt a of one or more pads d
moveable along the belt and one or more straps g connected to the belt a at the
wearer's back and adapted to pass between the wearer's legs to attach to the pad
or pads d, all substantially as and for the purposes described.
2nd. The pad d constructed as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 19th day or November 1000.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.