An Improved Elastic Fabric for Use as a Bandage and for other purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Elastic Fabric for Use as a Bandage and for other
purposes.
I, THERESA EICKSEN, née Radbruch, of No. 14, Bernturger Strasse, Berlin, in
the German Empire, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:--
The present invention relates to an improved elastic fabric for use as a bandage
and for other purposes, which owing to its elasticity is adapted to assume or
conform to any shape or form it is intended to give to it.
The fabric possesses
large meshes so that it permits a free passage of the air, and when used for
bandaging purposes it fits closely to the body without limiting the movements
thereof, so that the new fabric may even be employed as a substitute for the
usual bandage for broken limbs and the like. The improved fabric may be made
of any desired or convenient width and form. A further distinguishing feature
of the improved fabric consists in that it can be pulled out or stretched trans-
versely to assume a triangular shape, which feature makes it specially adapted
for use as a bandage in connection with inguinal hernia, varicose veins and other
complaints.
I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, reference being had to
the accompanying drawings in which Figure shews a piece of my improved
fabric, which piece is shewn in Figure 2 pulled out in the longitudinal
direction. Figure 3 illustrates as an example a piece of my improved fabric,
pulled out to assume a triangular shape.
The fabric is made of a continuous thread a of any suitable and desired
material which surrounds a core of metallic wire. For bandaging purposes
silver wire or wire of any other non-oxidising metal is used as a core so that
infection of the wounded parts is completely avoided. If the improved fabric is
required for other than bandaging purposes, the core 6 can consist of any suitable
and desired metal. The thread a with its core b is coiled or interwoven in the
manner illustrated in Figure 1, that is to say the coils of every layer are
entwined or threaded with the coils of the adjacent two layers so that the
entwining c is produced by the threads a crossing each other as shewn at d in
Figures 1 and 2. The number of entwinings c depends obviously upon the
desired width of the fabric to be produced. At the edge of the fabric the various
loops of the thread a are threaded together as shewn at e in the various figures.
of the drawings. In these drawings as an example a rectangular piece of my
improved fabric is shewn, but it is obvious that any other desired or required
shape may be given to the fabric.
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:-
An improved elastic fabric for use as a bandage and for other purposes con-

page_text: sisting of a continuous thread having a metallic core coiled and threaded to-
gether substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 21st day of July 1899.
W. D. ROWLINGSON,
7, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, W:C.,
Agent for the Applicant.