An Improved Bunion Protector or Pad.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
COMI LEIN DIEVITIVATION.
An Improved Bunion Protector or Pad.
ISAAC CANNELL 61 Hatton Garden Holborn Caretaker 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 consists of a pad which can be made in felt, chamois leather or in
any other suitable material and which is so formed or shaped that as it rests or fits on
the toe or other part of the foot and in front of or around the bunion, it acts as a
protector by raising the boot off the said bunion without exciting an undue pressure
on any other part of the foot.
A pad or protector made in accordance with my invention is thicker at one part
than at another, and may be made of any suitable shape but preferably in the form
of a horse-shoe as shewn by the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 the crown a being
of greater thickness than the extremities of the legs bb. By thus gradually
tapering the pad from the crown to the opposite extremities, the easy adjustment
of the pad on the foot is greatly facilitated, the boot raised, and the bunion an:
that part of the foot around it relieved of the pressure and rubbing of the boot.
In first applying the pad an ordinary piece of sticking plaster or other such like
substance, may be used in order to fit the said pad to the exact position required
above or around the bunion: it will then afterwards adjust itself to the foot
without any difficulty. For the same purpose the pad itself may be coated with some
adhesive substance.
I wish it understood that 1 do not particularly confine myself to making the pads
of the shape shewn in Fig. 1, but that I do modify their shape to suit different
parts of the foot without departing from the nature of my invention, all pads or
protectors made in accordance with this invention being thickened at one side and
tapered down to a thin edge for the purpose above described. Neither do I confine
myself to making the pad exclusively of one material such as felt or chamois
leather, but for application to tender or inflamed feet I may make a case of either
of the above materials, or of flannel or silk, and stuff the same with wool, horse-
hair, or any other suitable substance which may or may not be saturated or
impregnated with an oil, lotion, herb, or any of the known remedies for allaying
inflammation & tenderness.
Figs. 2. 3. 4. 5. show some forms of the pad or protector made in accordance with
this invention for application to different parts of the foot; but it is obvious that
many other shapes might be made without departing from the nature of my
invention.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
(1) The pad substantially as above described and illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings for the purpose of protecting bunions on the feet by causing the
boot to be raised at that part away from the foot in the manner set forth.
Dated this day December 4th 1891.
ISAAC CANNELL.