AN IMPROVEMENT IN SURGICAL TRUSSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALFRED PULLAR of Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian, North Britain,
Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
“AN IMPROVEMENT IN SURGICAL TRUSSES" to be as follows:-
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This Invention which relates to an improvement in surgical trusses has for its
object to render the same water proof that is to say free from absorbing the
perspiration exuded or moisture emitted from the human body; also to protect the
said truss from damage during bathing.
The Invention consists in constructing a sheath of vulcanised caoutchouc or of
other suitable flexible material of the shape or more or less closely approximating
to the shape of the truss and which is slipped over the same so as to preserve any
of the structural parts of the truss when in use from contact with moisture. For
the purpose of more effectually covering the truss at the part where the joining
button or buttons stud or studs project therefrom a flat piece or washer is used in
connection with the said casing which covers over that part of the truss which
would be otherwise exposed around the said button or buttons or stud or studs and
for the further purpose of tightening the sheath upon the strap of the truss its
smaller end is made of a sufficiently tapered form to perfectly close it thereupon,
whilst to so strengthen the sheath at the smaller end also at the hole which passes
over the button or buttons or stud or studs the caoutchouc is doubled over at both
of these said parts.
J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
Petitioner's Agents,
116, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

page_text: I, ALFRED PULLAR, of Edinburgh, in the County of Midlothian, North Britain,
Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN SURGICAL TRUSSES" and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My said Invention relates to an improvement in Surgical Trusses and has for
its object to render the same waterproof that is to say free from absorbing the
perspiration exuded or moisture emitted from the human body also to protect the
said Truss from damage by water during bathing.
The Invention consists of a Sheath of Vulcanised caoutchouc or of other suitable
flexible material of the shape of the Truss such as is represented on the
accompanying Drawings respectively in part plan at Figure 1, and in transverse
section-at-Figure-2;-Figure 3 representing in elevation a Truss fitted with the
improved Shield represented at Figures 1, and 2.-The shield a, is slipped over the
Truss so as to preserve any or all of the structural parts of the said Truss when in
use, from contact with moisture.-For the purpose of more effectually covering tho
truss at the part where the joining button, or buttons, or stud b, or studs, project
therefrom a flat piece or washer is or may be used in connection with the part c, of
the said casing which covers over that part of the Truss which would be otherwise
exposed around the said button, or buttons, or stud, or studs, and for the further
purpose of tightening the sheath a, upon the strap d, of the Truss, its smaller end
is made of a sufficiently tapered form to perfectly close it thereupon, whilst to so
strengthen the sheath at the said smaller end and at the hole c, which passes over
the button, or buttons, or stud b, or studs, the caoutchouc is doubled over at both of
these said parts as represented at f
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The Sheath a, constituting a waterproof covering for Surgical Trusses constructed
of vulcanised caoutchouc or of other suitable flexible material with the parts c, e,
and f, all as herein before described and shewn upon the annexed sheet of
Drawings.