Improved Means for the Introduction of Medicaments into Wounds or Wounded Ducts and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SEMIFICATION.
[Communication from abroad by Dr. WILHELM SCHULTZ, of 1, Hemann
Strasse, Berlin, Germany.]
Improved Means for the Introduction of Medicaments into Wounds
or Wounded Ducts and the like.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The salves and other medicaments usually employed for treating wounds or
wounded ducts are generally of such a nature that on coming in contact with
the hand they either liquefy or become very soft, owing to the heat transmitted to
them thereby.
It is therefore necessary to employ special appliances for introducing such
medicaments into wounds or wounded ducts, such as the ear, the urethra &c., in
order to prevent, on the one hand, a detrimental alteration of the medicament and
on the other hand to prevent it from adhering to the hands of the operator.
According to my present invention, I effect this object by providing the
salve-like medicament with a handle which may be done either by making the
medicament in the form of a rod of suitable diameter the base of which is enclosed
in a casing of paper, woven fabric, artificial leather, &c., or the medicament body
can be attached to a special handle of wood, papier maché, caoutchouc &c.
The first named arrangement is shewn at Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
c is the medicament body, which is surrounded at its base by a covering a of
paper, parchment, woven fabric, &c. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 shew to an exaggerated
scale three other arrangements for carrying out the invention, which all have the
common feature, that the medicament body is mounted upon a special handle a of
suitable material, the front end of which is provided with a part 6 of smaller
diameter serving to receive a layer of the medicament, and termed the medicament
carrier. The latter may be formed in one with the handle, but it is preferred to
make them separate, and to attach them together either by merely fitting 6 into a
recess of a as a plug, or by screwing it in, or otherwise. The handle may then be
made of rigid material such as wood, ebonite &c., while the medicament carrier
is made of a flexible elastic material such as caoutchouc &c. in order to prevent
injury to the wound or wounded passage by contact with the extremity thereof,
when made rigid.
By making the handle and medicament carrier of two separate parts, the farther
advantage is gained that for surgical operations, &c. a considerable number of the
small medicament carriers having different kinds of medicaments can be contained
in a comparatively small portable receptacle, to be attached to the handle only as
they are wanted.
Fig. 3 shews a modification in which the medicament carrier is made of a
separate piece, preferably of flexible material such as caoutchouc, fitting with a
slightly conical lower end into a conical hole in the handle, in which it may be
secured by gluing or cementing.
If, in order to save room, and for the sake of cheapness, it is not desired to
supply each medicament carrier with a separate handle, but to sell the medicament
carriers 6 with the coating of medicament c separately, so that the medical man can
fix them on his own handle, the construction shewn at Fig. 4 can be employed with

page_text: advantage. The medicament carrier b is made slightly conical at its lower end, as
in Fig. 3, so as to fit tight, but yet readily removeable, in the correspondingly
shaped hole of the handle a. This medicament carrier b is coated with a layer of
any suitable medicament or disinfectant &c., and in order to prevent a detrimental
deformation of such coating during transport, the carrier is advantageously
formed with a flange d which forms a base for the medicament to fit against.
This flange or ring can either be made of one piece with the carrier b, and can
for example be made of caoutchouc, or.it may consist simply of a ring of paper or
paste board which is fitted tight on to the carrier.
Dated this 24th day of July 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for the Introduction of Medicaments into Wounds
or Wounded Ducts and the like.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
The salves and other medicaments usually employed for treating wounds or
wounded ducts are generally of such a nature that on coming in contact with the
hand they either liquefy or become very soft, owing to the heat transmitted to
them thereby.
It is therefore necessary to employ special appliances for introducing such
medicaments into wounds or wounded ducts such as the ear, the urethra &c. in
order to prevent, on the one hand, a detrimental alteration of the medicament and
on the other hand to prevent it from adhering to the hands of the operator.
According to my present invention, I effect this object by providing the salve-
like medicament with a handle which may be done either by making the medicament
in the form of a rod of suitable diameter the base of which is enclosed in a casing
of paper, woven fabric, sheet metal &c., or the medicament body can be attached to
a special handle of wood, papier maché, caoutchouc &c.
The first named arrangement is shewn at Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
c is the medicament body, which is surrounded at its base by a covering a of
paper, parchment, woven fabric &c. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 shew to an exaggerated
scale three other arrangements for carrying out the invention, which all have the
common feature, that the medicament body c is mounted upon a special handle a of
suitable material, the front end of which is provided with a part 6 of smaller
diameter serving to receive a layer of the medicament, and termed the medicament
carrier. The latter may be formed in one with the handle, but it is preferred to
make them separate, and to attach them together either by merely fitting b into a
recess of a as a plug, or by screwing it in, or otherwise. The handle may then he
made of rigid material such as wood, ebonite &c. while the medicament carrier is
made of a flexible elastic material such as caoutchouc &c. in order to prevent
injury to the wound or wounded passage by contact with the extremity thereof,
when made rigid.
By making the handle and medicament carrier of two separate parts, the farther
advantage is gained that for surgical operations, &c. a considerable number of the
small medicament carriers having different kinds of medicaments can be contained
in a comparatively small portable receptacle, to be attached to the handle only as
they are wanted.
Fig. 3 shews a modification in which the medicament carrier is made of a separate
piece preferably of a flexible material such as caoutchouc, fitting with a slightly

page_text: conical lower end into a conical hole in the handle, in which it may be secured by
gluing or cementing.
If, in order to save room, and for the sake of cheapness, it is not desired to supply
each medicament carrier with a separate handle, but to sell the medicament carriers b
with the coating of medicament c separately, so that the medical man can fix them
on his own handle, the construction shewn at Fig. 4 can be employed with
advantage. The medicament carrier 6 is made slightly conical at its lower end, as
in Fig. 3, so as to fit tight, but yet readily removeable, in the correspondingly
shaped hole of the handle a. This medicament carrier is coated with a layer of
any suitable medicament or disinfectant &c., and in order to prevent a detrimental
deformation of such coating during transport, the carrier b is advantageously formed
with a flange d which forms a base for the medicament to fit against. This flange
or ring can either be made of one piece with the carrier b, and can for example be
made of caoutchouc, or it may consist simply of a ring of paper or pasteboard
which is fitted tight onto the carrier.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Appliance for introducing medicaments into wounds, wounded ducts, and the
like consisting of a handle a of suitable form, preferably cylindrical which may
consist either of an envelope of paper or sheet metal embracing the lower end of a
rod-shaped medicament body, or of a special handle, the front end of which
receives a medicament carrier b of smaller diameter carrying a layer of medicament o
and which is either fixed to the handle or is removeably attached thereto, in which
latter case it is advantageously provided with a disc d that prevents any detrimental
deformation of the layer of medicament.
T] 1 f Amil 1904
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.