Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 27th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
I, HULDREICH WARTMANN, Doctor of Medicine, of Hohenfels, near Albruk, Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Hitherto irrigating vessels have usually occupied a fixed position while in use, in
consequence of which the pressure of the irrigating liquid has been approximately
constant.
The present invention has for its object to control the pressure at will during the
operation, so as to suit the condition of the locality or organ to be treated. "The
improved irrigating apparatus is therefore specially adapted for ear, eye and nose
douches, for the treatment of inflamations of the uterus and ovaries, as well as for
rinsing the bladder, where a control of the pressure is absolutely necessary.
The simple manipulation of the apparatus also enables the patient to use the same
easily without any assistance, in case of uterine displacements, inflammation of the
ovaries and uterus, and for washing wounds.
The principal feature of the improved apparatus consists in the combination of the
irrigating vessel with a suspended and vertically adjustable slide, and with a scale
graduated to show the pressures.
An example of an irrigating vessel with lift is shown in the annexed drawings,
Fig. 1 being a side view, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section of the
same, as attached to a wall or post; while Figs. 4 and 5 illustrates on a smaller scale
an apparatus mounted on a tripod.
The base plate a has two rings, a¹ and a², for receiving the irrigating vessel A
which holds about two liters. The hose pipe B is made as usual and corresponds in
length to the height of lift. The base plate a slides on the face d of the wall or post,
and is guided by a rod c. The plate a is suspended from a cord f passing over the
pulley 9, and terminating near the operator, where it may be fixed by any suitable
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page_text: contrivance, as for instance, an eccentric lever h. By these means the glass vessel A
may be raised to any convenient height, for instance, two or three yards, so as to obtain
the hydrostatic pressure suitable for every stage of the operation.
The easiest way of applying the apparatus to the wall of a room, or to a post, is to
make the sliding face d part of the appliance which carries the graduated scale i, and
the lifting contrivance. The blocks d and d serve to fix the apparatus to the wall m.
The sliding base plate a carries an index finger o showing on the scale i the hydrostatic
pressure corresponding to the position of the vessel A.
Instead of fixing the irrigating apparatus to a wall, it may be mounted on a tripod,
as shown by Figs. 4 and 5. For this purpose the upper part of the face plate d is
provided at d¹ with a sleeve p¹, and the lower part at d² with two such sleeves p².
These sleeves or socket pieces serve to hold the legs q³ and q³.

page_text: Improvements in Irrigators Applicable for Local Douches, Injections,
and Analogous Purposes.
I, HULDREICH WARTMANN, Doctor of Medicine, of Hohenfels, near Albruk, Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany, 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 :-
Hitherto irrigating vessels have usually occupied a fixed position while in use, in
consequence of which the pressure of the irrigating liquid has been approximately
constant.
The present invention has for its object to control the pressure at will during the
operation, so as to suit the condition of the locality or organ to be treated. The
improved irrigating apparatus is therefore specially adapted for ear, eye, and nose
douches for the treatment of inflammations of the uterus and ovaries, as well as for
rinsing the bladder; where a control of the pressure is absolutely necessary.
The simple manipulation of the apparatus also enables the patient to use the same
easily without any assistance, in case of uterine displacements, inflammation of the
ovaries and uterus, and for washing wounds.
The principal feature of the improved apparatus consists in the combination of the
irrigating vessel with a suspended and vertically adjustable slide, and with a scale
graduated to show the pressures.
An example of an irrigating vessel with lift is shown in the drawings filed with the
provisional specification; Fig. 1 being a side view, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 a
horizontal section of the same, as attached to a wall or post; while Figs. 4 and 5
illustrate on a smaller scale an apparatus mounted on a tripod.
The base plate a has two rings, a' and a², for receiving the irrigating vessel A which
holds about two liters. The hose pipe B is made as usual and corresponds in length
to the height of lift. The base plate a slides on the face d of the wall or post, and is
guided by a rod c. The plate a is suspended from a cord f passing over the pulley g,
and terminates near the operator, where it may be fixed by any suitable contrivance,
as for instance, an eccentric lever h. By these means the glass vessel A may be raised
to any convenient height, for instance, two or three yards, so as to obtain the hydrostatic
pressure suitable for every stage of the operation.
The easiest way of applying the apparatus to the wall of a room, or to a post, is to
make the sliding face d part of the appliance which carries the graduated scale i and
the lifting contrivance. The blocks d and d² serve to fix the apparatus to the wall m.
The sliding base plate a carries an index finger o showing on the scale i the hydrostatic
pressure corresponding to the position of the vessel A.
Instead of fixing the irrigating apparatus to a wall, it may be mounted on a tripod
as shown by Figs. 4 and 5. For this purpose the upper part of the face plate d is
provided at d with a sleeve p³, and the lower part at d with two such sleeves p².
These sleeves or socket pieces serve to hold the legs q' and q³.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An irrigating apparatus comprising a reservoir provided with a flexible discharge
pipe and mounted on a vertically adjustable slide or base, in combination with a pointer
or index and a graduated scale showing the elevations or pressures corresponding to
different positions of the reservoir, substantially as described.
2. The irrigating apparatus substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1
to 3.
3. The modified irrigating apparatus, substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 4 and 5.