AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR ANTISEPTIC BANDAGES OR LIGATURES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Conradi, Engineer and Patent Agent, of 8, Lower
James Street, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR ANTISEPTIC BANDAGES OR LIGATURES."
A communication from abroad by Henry Théophile Baeschlin, Director of the
International Bandage Material Manufacture, of Schaffhausen, in the Canton
of Schaffhausen. in Switzerland.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Conradi at the Oflice
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th July 1878.
HENRY CONRADI, Engineer and Patent Agent, of S, Lower James Street, Golden
Square, in the County of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR ANTISEPTIC
BANDAGES OR LIGATURES." [A communication from abroad by Henry Théophilo
Baeschlin, Director of the International Bandage Material Manufacture, of Schaff-
hausen, in the Canton of Schaffhausen, in Switzerland.
The apparatus, as represented in the adjoined Drawing, has for its object to
render the method of antiseptic bandages or ligatures everywhere applicable where
it is used with ingredients, materials, or any stuff or drug connected with carbol,
thymol, or salicyl acids.
The apparatus consists of the bottom part of a bathing tube, receptacle, or
reservoir u, and the top part b, which slides in the rebates c, cl, of the bottom part
of the apparatus in the longitudinal direction, and which can also be removed by
removing the cover d first, see Fig. 1, 2, & 3.
The apparatus is provided with a strap e, by which it can be handled easily,
carried over the shoulder or otherwise, as shown in Fig. 4.
The top part b is provided with the straight wall or part f, and can be used by
irrigations as a pressure reservoir for the antiseptic fluid or liquid after having been
fastened to the wall by incans of the eye y, as shown in Fig. 5. For this purpose
an india-rubber pipe i, provided with a cock, is connected to the tube or mouth-

page_text: piece h, and the apparatus is thus used to sprinkle over the wounds, as well as to
steam away or to evaporate the antiseptic liquid during the operation or by
changing the bandage. In the first case a simple tube or glister pipe is used,
while in the second case the same connected with a balloon is used.
By fixing to the apparatus similar tubes, but of another shape, the irrigating
apparatus or irrigator, acting as a clyso-pump, can be used as injector, watering
pan, shower bath, or nozzle for the womb (uterus), the eyes, the ears, or other
places of the human body,
After having emptied the bottom part from the materials contained in it, it can
be used as basin, in which all the instruments, sponges, drainage pipes, &c., by
means of the antiseptic liquids, can be disinfected.
The apparatus is always kept provided with the necessary material to make
bandages or ligatures, &c., for wounds, whereby the top part 6 serves as receptacle
for the tubing, the balloon, and the watering pan, or slower bath, or nozzle.
The bottom part serves as receptacle for the antiseptic bandage material, for the
prepared and doseted antiseptic drugs, according to the method of the treatment by
the surgeon or doctor, as, for the present instance, by the method of treatment with
carbol, thymnol, salicyl, or bor acids.
If the inedical man be called by a patient for a broken arm or leg, he can fill the
apparatus with the required materials for the hydrosulphate of line (gypsum). The
apparatus is therefore an indispensable appliance for surgeons and other medical
men.
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The improvements upon which the claims are principally based consist, —
1. In the arrangements of the apparatus as a receptacle or reservoir for bandages;
to be carried easily; to be applicable for carrying all the requisite materials for
bandages and ligatures, as above described, and represented in the adjoined
Drawing.
2. In the arrangements of the apparatus to be composed of several parts, of which
one part can be used as a pressure reservoir, which can be hung against the wall
when used for irrigating purposes as an irrigator or injector, while the other part
can be used as a basin for the bandages, in the manner above described, and repre-
sented in the adjoined Drawing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Conradi in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th December
1878.
HENRY CONRADI, Engineer and Patent Agent, of 8, Lower Janes Street, Golden
Square, in the County of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR ANTISEPTIC
BANDAGES OR LIGATURES." A communication from abroad by Henry Theophile
Baeschlin, Director of the International Bandage Material Manufacture, of Schaff-
hausen, in the Canton of Schaffhausen, in Switzerland.
The apparatus, as represented in the adjoined Drawing, has for its object to render
the method of antiseptic bandages or ligatures everywhere applicable, whether it is
used with ingredients, material, or any stuff or drug connected with carbol, thymol,
or salicyl acids.
The apparatus consists of the bottom part of a bathing tub, receptacle, or
reservoir a, and the top part b, which slides in the rebates c, c¹, of the bottom part
of the apparatus in the longitudinal direction, and which can also be removed by
removing the cover first, see Fig. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
The apparatus is provided with a strap e, by which it can be handled easily,
carried over the shoulder, or otherwise, as shown in Fig. 1 and 2.
The top part b is provided with the straight wall or part f, and can be used by
irrigation as a pressure reservoir for the antiseptic fluid or liquid after having been
fastened to the wall by means of the eye g, as shown in Fig. 5. For this purpose
an india-rubber pipe or tube i, provided with a cock, is connected to the tube or
mouth-piece h, and the apparatus is thus used to sprinkle over the wounds, as well
as to steam away or to evaporate the antiseptic liquid during the operation or by
changing the bandage. In the first case a simple tube or glister pipe is used, while
in the second case the same connected to a balloon is used.
By fixing to the apparatus similar tubes, but of another shape, the irrigating
apparatus or irrigator, acting as a clyso-pump, can be used as an injector, watering
pan, shower bath, or nozzle, for the womb (uterus), the eyes, the ears, or other
places of the human body.
After having emptied the bottom part from the materials contained in it, it can
be used as basin, in which all the instruments, sponges, drainage pipes, and so on,
by means of the antiseptic liquids, can be disinfected.
Another disposition of the apparatus is shown in Fig. 6 to 10. The top part I
which serves as irrigator, does in this case not slide in rebates upon the bottom part,
but takes hold upon the front part by means of the half-hinge connection with
the bottom part n, as represented in detail and in a enlarged scale in Fig. 11, while
a cramp of any shape taking hold upon the front part & connects both parts. The
irrigator I is provided with a hinged cover m, a fixed bottom n, and a bottom o
which can be opened. The connecting piece for the hose or tube P is attached to
the fixed bottom n, while the hose pipe or tube q can be kept in the space left
between the two bottoms n and o.
Fig. 6 shows the irrigator I hang upon the wall with the bottom part open, so
that the hose becomes free to be used. If the irrigator be placed on the table the
bottom rests closed, and the hose or pipe is drawn out through the split or
opening r.
The apparatus is always kept provided with the necessary material to make
bandages or ligatures, and so on, for wounds, whereby the top part b serves as
receptacle for the tubing, the balloon, and the watering pan, or shower bath, or
nozzle.
The bottom part serves as receptacle for the antiseptic bandage material, for the
prepared and doseted antiseptic drugs, according to the method of the treatment
by the surgeon, doctor, or medical man, as, for the present instance, by the method
of treatment with carbol, thymol, salicyl, or bor acids.

page_text: If the medical man, surgeon, or doctor be called by a patient for broken arm or
leg, he can fill the apparatus with the required material for the hydrosulphate of
lime (gypsum). The apparatus is therefore an indispensable appliance for surgeons,
doctors, and any medical man.
Besides the forms and shapes herein described, many others can be chosen for the
apparatus.
Having thus herein described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, it will be understood that the improvements upon which the
claims are principally based consists,―
1. In the arrangement of the apparatus as a receptacle or reservoir for bandages,
to be carried casily, to be applicable for carrying all the requisite materials for
bandages and ligatures, as above described, and as represented in the adjoined
Drawings.
2. In the arrangements of the apparatus to be composed of several parts, of which
one part can be used as a pressure reservoir, which can be hung against the wall
when used for irrigating purposes as an irrigator injector, while the other part can
be used as a basin, reservoir, or receptacle for the bandages, in the manner above
described, and as represented in the adjoined Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Conradi, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.