A NEW MACHINE FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS LABOURING UNDER THE MISFORTUNE 0? A FRACTURED LEG OR THIGH, WHICH I CALL A LEG AND THIGH MACHINE
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB
STANTON, of Weybread, in the County of Suffolk, Miller, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-ninth day of July, in the thirty-fifth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Jacob Stanton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Jacob Stanton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Jacob Stanton, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MACHINE FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS
LABOURING UNDER THE MISFORTUNE 0? A FRACTURED LEG OR THIGH, WHICH I CALL
A LEG AND THIGH MACHINE;" in such manner as to me, the said Jacob
Stanton, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in
their discretion seen meet, and that I, the said Jacob Stanton, my executors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the
term of years therein mentionel, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, power, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned
to be granted unto me, the said Jacob Stanton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Jacob Stanton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said. Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jacob Stanton, do hereby declare that the Paper Writing hereunto annexed,
marked with the letter A, contains a true and particular description of my said
New-invented Machine for the Relief of Persons Labouring under the Mis-
fortune of a Fractured Leg or Thigh, which I call a Leg and Thigh Machine,
divided into six distinct Drawings of the machine itself, in every possible
direction, together with twelve other of its component parts, at the bottom of
which are six seperate explanations of cach Drawing, with proper references to
each seperate and composing part, so as entirely to ascertain the whole, and
the method in which my said Invention is to be performed. And the said
Drawings and Explanations are accurate and true, to the best of my knowledge,
as I have carefully compared and examined the same with the original model
of my said New-invented Machine for the Relief of Persons Labouring under
the Misfortune of a Fractured Leg or Thigh, which I call a Leg and Thigh
Machine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth
lay of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of August,
in the year above written, the aforesaid Jacob Stanton came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
5 also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of August. in the year above written.

page_text: which is a section of Fig 4 at 11.
L. An
oval Iron Base for the Machine to rest upon in the centre of which is screw'd Fig 1 as at I.
0. An upright Iron Standard with a hole for the purpose of screwing it to the Base which then remains stedfast.
N. A Brass swivel working
on the appermost part of the standard about which the Machime itself revolves.
M. A Cylinder of Word through the upper part of which passes the Screw P, which also passes through the upper part of the
Swivel and on which the Cylinder turns to give the Leg a lateral motion either to the right or left.
R A Thumb screw which locks the Cylinder in an
in an upright position.
H G a bruss crutch Fig 2 fixt on the bottom of the Machine and unto the Cylinder on the reverse of the Swivel .
I The Screw passing from side to side of the crotch and also through the Cylinder at T. by which the Machine is made to deviate
more or less from the horizontal position in the plate.
in
Plate 2. Is the same Machine .
the lateral position to the right and of c
-course the Cylinder reversed on the lutarul center sheeving the Bettem
C. Fry 6 . Is of Brass on each end of which as at A.A. the foot piece ads and may be elevated or depressed by the Thummb
Seruv B working through the park. ( which part stands nearly perpendicular to the bottoon behind the foot piece.
D. A Cylindrical part of the Brace passing in the long mortice I und fixt by the Thumb screw B. to any longth of the Leg.
Plate 5 . Shews the Machine, open in which is placed a pillow for the Leg sufficiently wide to cover the bottom and sides...
0. A brass joint Fig 5 two of which are screw'd upon the bottom on each side the part marked W. of which is fixt to
the joint acting in the cross mortices in the bottom at 0.0.0.0. and by means of the Sorew I working in the part
W contracts or expands the sides of the Machine to the size of the Leg which being properly placed therim are buckled up as in
plate the first. -
Plate 4 Is the same Maclime with the part afficed for the Fractural thigh by means of the soint O Fig 8 which stands up
each side the Knee and is screw'd on at P. in the second plate and on the bottom of the Thigh part enclosed by the outward
covering but sun at Fig 10 at B.
Fig 9 and 10 are twve avves which are covered with soft Leather constitute the bottom of the Thigh Apparatus and are inserted
in each other for the purpose of extension so as to fit the Thigh by · means of a Splint & sliding into the splint B which we
scree'd down to any length in the inside long mortice M. plate 5 of the exterior curve by the Screws in fig: 9 at 0 Fig 10.
A.A. are two side splents explain'e in plate 5.
Plate 5. Represents the Leg and thigh Machine opened for the reception of the puctured Thigh which is placed on a quelów
lodged within the tin Curve A and B
D.D. An outside double covering of Coth in which are contained the two vide splents.
E. E. which are made to fit the size of the Thigh by the three cross Strings fixxt to the Covering F. E. F
EE Fig 11 and 12 are the optent and sheath separate and and which are seen united in Fry 3 the outside splint is longer
than the other and may be shifted as the fracture shall happen....
G.G.G.G.G. Five strings
on each side to the the whole together which is afterwards buckled up as in the thigh pout of plate 4.
Plute 6 . Are two Machines connected together by screwving into each end I the cross Bar Fry 7 and screw'd on the same
base by the centre screw I' round which it revolves In ouse of a fracture of both Legs and equally applicable to both Thighs.
Memorandum . To shift the Securus, a common Seuw driver which passes through the hole of the Pron Standard
to screw it fast to the Base the end being mude to fit the Head of the Serve is sufficient. Oil to be occasionally applied to
the Screws and nuts And a price of Oil Case under the pillow to prevent any moisture getting to the Screws and Brasses
is recommended...
Drawn on Stone by Malby & Sons.