CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN TRUSSES FOR PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH RUPTURES
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
REES, of Red Lion Passage, in the Parish of George the Martyr and County
of Middlesex, Cutler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
August, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Rees, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard Recs, my
exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TRUSSES FOR PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH RUPTURES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard
Rees, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular 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 after the date of the said recited 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
Richard Rees, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained as followeth, that is to say :-
Firstly, to the truss as heretofore made, of one spring throughout, I do fix
or attach, or otherwise I do fabricate a part thereof, the broad plate A in the
Drawing hereunto annexed, at or near the middle of the said spring, and do
face the said plate with a cushion or pad, and the use and advantage of the
said plate are, that it affords a steady and comfortable bearing for the truss
against the back of the patient, and greatly assists in preventing the same
from altering its position during exercise or other motion.
Secondly, instead of making the truss for cases of single hernia of one
spring throughout, I use two, as represented in the said Drawings, and denoted
respectively by the letters B and C; and I do affix the said springs to the
piece A either permanently or otherwise, and greatly in preference, by means
of binding screws passing through a long hole or slit in the said springs,
affording space for an adjustment of there extremities upon the said piece A
either inwards or outwards, as is shewn in the Drawing, Fig. 2; and in order
that the structure and uses of the truss, with my said improvements, as exhi-
bited in the said Drawings, may be more clearly apprehended and understood,
I do farther declare that the method of applying and wearing the said truss is
as follows:-The lower end of the pad D is to be applied to the upper edge of
the os pubis, on the side of which the rupture hath taken place, and the.adjust-
inent, by means of the screws at the back of the plate A, must be.mȧde.in
such a manner as that the said plate shall and may be situated at or.near the
middle of the back of the patient, and that the end of the spring. B
may, lic
immediately above the pad D, at the distance of about threo inches, and in this
situation the strap E is to be passed through the buckle F, and buckled with
a proper degree of tightness. But in cases of single hernia in which a double
rupture is feared, it will be found very beneficial, and contribute much towards
preventing that event from taking place, that the truss should be worn with
the end of the spring B in an opposite situation to that of the pad: D.. And,.
Thirdly, in cases of double rupture, I make both the springs of the same
description as C, and affix a pad D to each; and the said pads being duly
applied as aforesaid to the parts affected respectively, and the adjustments by
the screws at A being compleated, the truss will continue in its proper place
without the necessity of using any strap whatever.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Rees, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seven.
RICH REES. (LS.) ·

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid Richard Rees came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.