Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating Surgical Extensions and Bandaging of the Lower Extremities and Pelvis.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Facilitating Surgical Extensions
and Bandaging of the Lower Extremities and Pelvis.
1 FRANZ BINGLER of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, Germany 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 and accompanying drawings to which reference is
hereinafter made :-
My said invention relates to improvements in apparatus for facilitating surgical
extensions and bandaging of the lower extremities and pelvis.
The first part of my said invention consists of the stretching apparatus shown in
Fig. 1 the principal object of which is to support the patient in a raised position
that the surgeon without assistance and without altering the position of the body
may apply bandages or splints from the sole of the foot right up to the tuber and
pelvis.
To complete the stretching apparatus I use a supporting apparatus as shown in
Fig. 2.
The stretching apparatus Fig. 1 consists of a longitudinally adjustable
frame a a¹ one end (a¹) of which may be secured at any desired height to an
operating chair or table. The other end (a) is supported by a hinged strut b of
variable length.
The movable part a of the frame is bent upwards and carries a foot lashing d
provided with a quick acting screw and nute and capable of vertical adjustment in
a slot in the turned up part of the frame a.
Secured to the part of the frame a¹ and taking through a slot in the turned up
part of the frame a is a stretcher rail c carrying two leg rests f¹ f' so mounted as
to be capable of setting at any desired positions in the stretcher rail.
A
The seat ring g is screwed in a carrier i held in a socket in the pillar h.
vertically adjustable body rest K is mounted on the table or in any other suitable
position with relation to the stretching apparatus.
Owing to the adjustability of all parts of the stretching apparatus it may be used
for large or small patients. In bandaging the leg rests ffare alternately shifted.
The seat ring g may be enveloped in the bandage and after being lifted out of the
socket of the pillar the carrier i may be screwed off. The bandaging effected in
the stretching apparatus is secured in any desired position to the splint or supporting
apparatus shown in Fig. 2.
The latter consists of the longitudinally adjustable splint bars the adjustable
strut m the supporting ring n and the adjustable foot rest a capable of rotation on
the splint bar 1. Such a supporting apparatus permits any desired setting rotation or
other surgical operations to be performed and can be used for all sizes of patients.
Both of the apparatus can be used either right or left and by using the two in
combination any extension produced by the stretching apparatus (Fig. 1) remains
undisturbed or undiminished by the supporting apparatus (Fig. 2).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The use combination and construction of a stretching apparatus (Fig. 1) having

page_text: a longitudinally adjustable frame a a¹ a foot lashing (d) provided with a screw
traverse motion e longitudinally adjustable leg supports fif a removable and
adjustably mounted seat ring 9 and a supporting apparatus or splint (Fig. 2)
having longitudinally adjustable splint bars an adjustable hinged strut ma
supporting ring n and an adjustable and rotatable foot holder o substantially as and
for the purpose herein before set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1895.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.