An Improved Table for Surgical Operations.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Loft 26th Lux 4000
A71L OL
1000
Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Loft, 26th Aug.,
4000
Accepted, 17th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Table for Surgical Operations.
I, JULES NAU, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the Republic of
France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
This invention relates to tables for surgical operations and its object is to
construct tables of this class in such a manner as to enable them to be taken to
pieces or adjusted according to requirements, so that the patient may be placed
thereon, operated upon, bandaged and replaced in bed without being shaken or
moved out of position.
This improved table for surgical operations consists of a metal frame made of
tubing. In fitting together the frame, a groove or slide-way, with which each of
the tubes is provided, is turned inwards. The sides of the frame may be joined in
any suitable manner, provided the mode of junction adopted enables them to be
disconnected at a moment's notice if required. It is here assumed by way of
illustration that the junction of the sides of the frame is effected by means of hooks
placed upon the lower surface of the tubes.
Along the axial line of the rectangle formed by the frame there is arranged a
tube which fits into one end of the frame at or about its middle. Before placing in
position the two portions of the frame which constitute the opposite end of the
table, metal plates are inserted in the spaces comprised between the said central
tube, and the sides of the said frame; these plates being provided, on two sides,
with projecting portions engaging, on one side, in the groove or slide-way of the
central tube, and on the other side, in the groove of the tube forming the frame.
When the said plates have thus been inserted in their place, so that they connect
the central tube to the sides of the frame, while, however, leaving certain spaces
or interstices between them, the object of which shall be hereinafter stated, the
two parts of the front end of the frame are placed in position and connected with
the central tube by means of hooks or in any other suitable manner.
Thus a rigid
structure is obtained, which is incapable of altering its shape of its own accord and
which constitutes the improved table for surgical operations forming the subject of
this invention.
In describing hereinafter the manner of using this table, the advantages it offers
will at the same time be made clear.
The person who is to undergo an operation is placed upon the table which has
first been suitably arranged upon some convenient support or stand, and whereou
all the requisites and accessories such as a head-rest, leg support, basins and other
necessaries have been properly disposed.
As soon as the operation proper completed, the patient has to be dressed or
bandaged. Now, owing to the construction of the improved surgical table, this
may be done without its being necessary either to raise or to turn the patient;
and it is done in the following manner. All the plates are moved together i.e. into
contact so that there should remain no plate in a certain portion of the table;
which result is easily attained owing to the empty spaces left between the plates
when the table was first erected.
When the plates have been thus adjusted, a bolt is withdrawn and a portion of
the central tube, being no longer retained by the said bolt, is turned on a pivot or
hinge and placed in a position perpendicular to the lower surface of the table. It
follows that the portion of the table aforesaid is thereby made quite free so as to
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page_text: afford access to, and rendering perfectly easy the bandaging of, that part of the
patient's body which is situated above the opening. And inasmuch as the part to
be bandaged may be situated at any point of the patient's body, the central tube
may be provided with a number of movable parts in such a manner that, no matter
where the part to be bandaged may be situated, a space may in all cases be formed
below that part, to render it accessible, in the manner just described.
When the bandaging or dressing is completed, it becomes necessary to replace
the person operated in bed. He is accordingly carried to bed without being
removed from the table, or altering his position thereon, and, upon the table having
been placed on the bed, the hooks are unhooked and the central tube is entirely
withdrawn by means of a handle. (It will be understood that the part which has
been opened for bandaging purposes must be closed again directly the bandages
are properly applied.) The frame is thus removed piecemeal, by disengaging the
hooks from their eyes and the table is thus wholly taken to pieces; when it is only
necessary to withdraw the plates from under the patient's body, to complete his
transfer to bed without subjecting him to any displacement.
As before stated, the method of connection of the portions of the frame is only
described here by way of example, as any other suitable devices may be adopted
for the purpose. In the manufacture of the improved table, also, any suitable
materials may be employed and the size of its several parts may vary according to
requirements.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1895.
I, JULES NAU, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the Republic of
France, 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 :-
This invention relates to tables for surgical operations and its object is to
construct tables of this class in such a manner as to enable them to be taken to
pieces or adjusted according to requirements, so that the patient may be placed
thereon, operated upon, bandaged and replaced in bed without being shaken or
moved out of position.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Figure 1 is a plan view of the table;
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section thereof on line 1-2, Figure 1;
Figure 3 is a cross section on line 3-4, Figure 1; and
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are detail views of the main parts of the table, on an enlarged
scale.
This improved table for surgical operations consists of a metal frame A made of
tubing, shown in section in Figure 5. In fitting together the frame, a groove or
slide-way a, with which each of the tubes A is provided, is turned inwards. The
sides of the frame n, m, o m, o p, and pn may be joined in any suitable manner,
provided the mode of junction adopted enables them to be disconnected at a
moment's notice if required. It is here assumed by way of illustration that in the
table shown in the drawings the junction of the sides of the frame is effected by
means of hooks B B¹ placed upon the lower surface of the tubes A.
Along the axial line of the rectangle formed by the frame A there is arranged

page_text: a tube C, a section of which is shown in Figure 4. This tube C fits at c into one
end portion o, m of the frame. Before placing in position the two portions of the
frame A, which constitute the opposite end n of the table, metal plates D
(Figure 6) are inserted in the spaces comprised between the said central tube C
and the sides mn and o of the said frame A; these plates being provided, on
two sides, with projecting portions d engaging, on one side, in the groove or slide-
way of the central tube C, and on the other side, in the groove a of the tubes
forming the frame. When the said plates D have thus been inserted in their place,
so that they connect the central tube C to the sides m n and o p of the frame A,
while, however, leaving certain spaces or interstices between them, the object of
which will be hereinafter stated, the two parts of the front end n of the frame
are placed in position and connected with the central tube C by means of hooks B¹
or in any other suitable manner. Thus a rigid structure is obtained, which can be
readily adjusted according to requirements and which constitutes the improved
table for surgical operations forming the subject of this invention.
In describing hereinafter the manner of using this table, the advantages it offers
will at the same time be made clear.
The person who is to undergo an operation is placed upon the table which has
just been suitably arranged upon some convenient support or stand, and whereon
all the requisites and accessories such as a head-rest, leg support, basins and the
like have been properly disposed.
As soon as the operation proper is completed, the patient has to be dressed or
bandaged. Now, owing to the construction of the improved surgical table, this
may be done without its being necessary either to raise or to turn the patient;
and it is done in the following manner; All the plates D are moved together
i.e. into contact so as to leave quite free the portions E, F, of the central tube C
or in other words, the plates D are moved close together so that there should
remain no plate in the portion of the table x y z and w; which result is easily
attained owing to the empty spaces G left between the plates when the table was
first erected.
When the plates have been thus adjusted, a bolt H is withdrawn (Figures 1
and 2) and a portion E, F of the central tube C, being no longer retained by the
said bolt, is turned on a pivot or hinge h and placed in a position perpendicular to
the lower surface of the table. It follows that the space x, y z and w is thereby
made quite free so as to afford access to, and rendering perfectly easy the bandaging
of, that part of the patient's body which is situated above the opening x, y, z and w.
And inasmuch as the part to be bandaged may be situated at any point of the
patient's body, the central tube may be provided with a number of movable
parts F, F in such a manner that, no matter where the part to be bandaged may
be situated, an empty space may in all cases be formed below that part, to render
it accessible, in the manner just described.
When the bandaging or dressing is completed, it becomes necessary to replace
the person operated in bed.
He is accordingly carried to bed without being removed from the table, or
altering his position thereon, and, upon the table having been placed on the bed,
the hooks B B are unhooked and the central tube C is entirely withdrawn by
means of a bandle I. (It will be understood that the part E, F, which has been
opened for bandaging purposes must be closed again directly the bandages are
properly applied.) The frame A is then removed piecemeal, by disengaging the
hooks B from their eyes and the table is thus wholly taken to pieces; when it is
only necessary to withdraw the plates D from under the patient's body, to complete
his transfer to bed without subjecting him to any displacement.
As before stated, the method of connection of the portions of the frame A is only
described here by way of example, as any other suitable devices may be adopted
for the purpose. In the manufacture of the improved table, also, any suitable
materials may be employed and the size of its several parts may be varied according
to requirements.

page_text: 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 :-
1. An adjustable or disjoinable metal table for surgical operations consisting of
a skeleton or structure of metal tubing comprising an outer rectangular frame made
up of a number of pieces connected by hooks or other suitable devices and a central
tube resting on, or supported by, the two narrow sides of the frame, having two
rectangular free spaces which may be filled up or occupied by metal plates provided
with projections on two sides, which projections fit, or engage in, slide ways formed
in the tubing of the skeleton of the table; the said plates being arranged at certain
distances apart, instead of being placed side by side, so as to leave spaces between
them as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In the disjoinable table for surgical operations as claimed in the preceding
claim, the arrangement of the movable parts of the central tube of the skeleton or
structure; such movable parts being connected by hinges so as to be capable of
being turned down at right angles below the table and being normally retained in
a horizontal position by means of bolts, latches or other suitable devices, as and
for the purpose specified.
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محط
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildinge, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.