Improvements in Umbilical Pads.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbilical Pads.
I, HEINRICH LOEWY, of 92, Dorotheenstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Ger-
many, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an umbilical pad for the use of little children, to
whom the pad cannot be applied by a truss or bandage as employed for children
of more advanced bodily development and for adults. To babies of the first age,
to whom umbilical pads must frequently be applied, such pads, hitherto, have
been applied by means of a sticking-plaster, such plasters, however, are greatly
liable to becoming loose and drop, owing to the great yieldingness and flexi-
bility of the skin to which they adhere. The purpose of my invention is to
prevent the plaster from becoming loose and from being displaced or from
falling off the skin.
To obtain this purpose, the plaster, in the centre of which the umbilical pad
is carried, is constructed of two, or preferably, of a number of plasters of
different sizes so arranged one over another, that the central one, which carries
the pad, is the smallest one and every further one used in addition, extends over
the one before it. By this means two or more pasting surfaces independent
of each other are provided and if one becomes loose, the other or others will
still hold, thereby giving great security against loosening and falling off of
the pad.
In carrying the invention into effect the pad proper to be applied is secured
to a plaster projecting over the said pad and having a pasting surface. A con-
venient number of other plasters of the same kind, having pasting or sticking
surfaces on their lower side, (in the present case say three plasters) are laid one
over another, each projecting with its pasting surface over that below the same.
The said plasters may be circular, forming full discs, or they may be cut out to
form a cross, or be shaped as convenient. As will be seen the sticking surfaces
of the two or more plasters do not keep the same level, but form steps, and by
this means I obtain, that the several sticking or pasting surfaces do not act as
a single and uniform sticking surface, but adhere independently of each other.
So, if by the extreme softness and yieldingness of the skin, one or the other of
said sticking surfaces should become loose, the others will keep, nevertheless,
and it will scarcely ever occur that all sticking surfaces become loose at a time
so as to permit the pad to drop.
To still better secure the whole plaster, strips of convenient length, extending
over the plaster, are laid across the same, the lower surface of said strips is
equally lined with a pasting or adhesive substance, and by means of said strips
the pad and plaster are held to the body in a most reliable manner.
A modification consists in forming the strips directly on or in one piece with
the uppermost plaster instead of using separate strips laid across the plaster.

page_text: The plasters in this modification, may be circular and be cut into sections,
such cutting, however, may be omitted."
Dated this 22nd day of February 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & 'Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
I, HEINRICH LOEWY, of 92, Dorotheenstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Ger-
many, Manufacturer, 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 an umbilical pad for the use of little children, to
whom the pad cannot be applied by a truss or bandage as employed for children
of more advanced bodily development and for adults. To babies of the first age,
to whom umbilical pads must frequently be applied, such pads, hitherto, have
been applied by means of a sticking-plaster, such plasters, however, are greatly
liable to becoming loose and to dropping, owing to the great yieldingness and
flexibility of the skin to which they adhere. The purpose of my invention is to
prevent the plaster from becoming loose and from being displaced or from
falling off the skin.
To obtain this purpose, the plaster, in-the-centre of which the umbilical pad
is carried, is constructed of two, or preferably of a number of, plasters of
different sizes so arranged one over another, that the central one, which carries
the pad, is the smallest one and every further one used in addition, extends over
the one before it. By this means two or more pasting surfaces independent
of each other are provided and if one becomes loose, the other or others will
still hold, thereby giving great security against falling off of the pad.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan, seen from below of one
form of the improved umbilical pad and plaster, Fig. 2 is a central vertical
section of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 are corresponding views of a modification of
this invention.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, a is the pad proper to be applied, the same is
secured to a plaster b, projecting over the said pad a, and having a pasting
surface. A convenient number of other plasters of the same kind, having past-
ing or sticking surfaces on their lower sides, in the present case three plasters c,
d, and e, are laid one over another, each projecting with its pasting surface over
that below the same. The said plasters may be circular, forming full discs, or
they may be cut out, as shown to form a cross, or be shaped as convenient. As
will be seen from the cross-section, Fig. 2, the sticking surfaces of the two or
more plasters do not keep the same level, but form steps, and by this means I
obtain that the several sticking or pasting surfaces do not act as a single and
uniform sticking surface like that usually employed, but adhere independently
of each other. So, if by the extreme softness and yieldingness of the skin, one
or the other of said sticking surfaces should become loose, the others will keep,
nevertheless, and it will scarcely ever occur that all sticking surfaces become
loose at the same time so as to permit the pad to drop.
To still better secure the whole plaster, strips f, of convenient length, extend-
ing over the plaster, are laid across the same, the lower surface of said strips f,
is equally lined with a pasting or adhesive substance, and by means of said strips
the pad and plaster are held to the body in a most reliable manner.

page_text: The modification illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, consists in the strips f being
formed directly on or in one piece with the uppermost plaster e, instead of
separate strips being laid across the plaster.
The plasters c, d, e, in this modification are represented as being circular
and cut into sections, such cutting, however, may be omitted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
1. The combination, with an umbilical pad, of two or more plasters laid one
over another and projecting one over another, substantially as and for the pur-
pose described.
2. The combination, with an umbilical pad, of two or more plasters laid one
over another, and projecting one over another and of pasting strips laid across
said plasters, to better secure the same, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3. The combination, with an umbilical pad, of two or more plasters laid one
over another and projecting one over another and of pasting strips formed
directly on or in one piece with the uppermost plaster, substantially as and for
the purpose described.