Improvements in Bags for Containing Midwifery or Surgical Instruments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th June, 1894-Accepted, 8th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bags for Containing Midwifery or Surgical
Instruments.
WALTER CUTTELL LONGMATE Surgical Instrument Maker Denmark House
Wellington Road South Hounslow do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
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A bag made of leather or other material to have the lining so that it may be
taken out, by means of lacing, buttoning, hooking or by spring frame or any other
way most suitable to requirements for this class of instruments, the bag will be
used for, also the bag lining to be made of aseptic material or any material that can
be rendered aseptic.
12th day of September 1802
UTLEIE STECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bags for Containing Midwifery or Surgical
Instruments.
I, WALTER CUTTELL LONGMATE of Denmark House, Wellington Road
South, Hounslow in the County of Middlesex, Surgical Instrument Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in bags for containing midwifery or
surgical instruments.
In bags with a permanently fixed lining as heretofore employed for carrying
surgical instruments the lining is usually dirtied after an operation by the
instruments placed in the bag before they have been cleaned, so that it requires
to be disinfected, but as this cannot be done in a satisfactory manner the whole bag
soon becomes unfit for use.
According to my said invention, which has for its object to remedy the aforesaid
inconvenience, I provide bags designed for the reception of surgical instruments
with a lining preferably made of an antiseptic material and adapted to be easily
removed from the bag for the purpose of being cleaned and to be inserted again
for further service.
In order that my improvements may be clearly understood I will proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein similar
letters designate corresponding parts.
Figure 1 represents a transverse section of a bag with a removable lining.
Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5 are portions of a bag showing several modes of fastening
the removable lining to the bag.
Figure 6 is a side elevation of a bag with a lining removably attached thereto by
lacing.
Figures 7 and 8 are a side and end elevation of a separate lining showing the
arrangement of the eyelets and a lateral opening for a strap.
Figure 9 represents an end elevation of a separate lining furnished with a wire
frame.
In carrying my invention into practice I use a hand bag A Figure 1 of leather
or other suitable material, and provide it with a lining B consisting of antiseptic
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page_text: material or any material which can be rendered antiseptic, such as for instance
that which is well known in the trade as holland, linen, mackintosh, American
cloth or the like, this lining being fastened to the bag in any desired manner so
that it may be readily removed and cleaned when required.
In the arrangement shewn in Figure 1 the lining is fixed to the bag by means
of a lace a passed through eyelets bc, in the upper edge of the lining and
in the corresponding part of the bag. The lining B may be held in its place at
the bottom of the bag by small studs d fastened in the bottom part of the lining B
and having their head and shank split into two parts. When these spring studs
are pressed into eyelets d' provided in proximity to the large nails fixed as usual
in the bottom of the bag the head of the stud will be firmly held in the eyelets, as
shown in Figure 1. On one or both sides of the lining I sometimes arrange separate
pockets formed by flaps e which may be buttoned to such lining.
In lieu of lacing the lining B to the bag A I may also fix it thereto by the aid
of spring hooks f engaging with eyelets in the upper edge of the living, as
represented in Figure 2.
Figure 3 shows a modification wherein the upper part of the bag A is furnished
with a number of buttons g, and the upper edge of the lining B with holes /,
through which the said buttons are passed in order to hold the lining in
its place.
Another mode of securing the lining B in the bag A consists in providing
the said lining with a wire frame i Figure 4 which holds it against the sides of
the bag and opens and closes with the latter, as more particularly set forth with
reference to Figure 9.
In Figure 5 the bag. A has plain hooks į adapted to engage with eyelets b in the
upper edge of the lining B. Figure 6 shows a bag A and Figures 7 and 8 a
lining B for the same, the former having a number of eyelets c and the latter
corresponding eyelets 61; through these eyelets and I pass a cord a or the like
to fix the lining to the bag. At one of its ends the lining B has at the lower
portion on one side an opening k designed for the passage of a long strap 1 (indicated
in dotted lines Figures 7 and 8) fastened at a corresponding point in the interior of
the bag. Inside the lining B I arrange a number of metallic loops m through
which the said strap is passed, so that each portion of the latter between two
neighbouring loops forms with the corresponding portion of the lining a kind of
pocket into which bottles, flasks or the like may be inserted.
A short strap
provided with a buckle is fastened to the other end of the bag and passes to the
inside of the lining through a hole k. By drawing the end of the long strap
through the buckle of the short one and tightening the same this long strap adapts
itself to the size and shape of the articles placed in the aforesaid pockets which are
thus securely held therein, as will be readily understood.
A separate lining B having its opening or mouth provided with a wire frame i is
represented in Figure 9. When in this case the lining is inserted into the bag
the said frame extends all along the mouth of the latter. In this position it is
supported by wires i¹ secured to the lining and held in the corners of the bag, thus
the frame will be caused to open and close at the same time and by the same
movement as the bag.
It will be understood that when in any of the before described arrangements
the lining has become dirty it may be very easily removed from the bag in order
to be thoroughly cleaned so that it can be used again, and that when it has become
worn or injured a fresh lining may be readily substituted, thus avoiding the dangers
of imperfectly cleaned or disinfected linings or the expense of an entirely
new bag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. In a bag for containing surgical instruments or the like the employment

page_text: of a removable lining of antiseptic material as and for the purpose hereinbefore
set forth.
Second. In a bag for containing surgical instruments or the like the employ-
ment of a removable antiseptic lining fastened to the said bag either by lacing,
hooking, buttoning or by a wire frame, substantially as, and for the purpose
herein before described with reference to the drawings.
Third. The herein before described means for fixing the lining to a bag for
containing surgical instruments or the like as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 9th day of June 1894.
WALTER CUTTELL LONGMATE.