Safety-bands for Children for Securing them to Perambulators or Bedsteads, and for like Purposes, also for Patients who are Delirious. THEM TO PERAMBULATORS, OR BEDSTEADS AND FOR
Year: 1884

page_text: Safety-bands for Children for Securing them to Perambulators
or Bedsteads, and for like Purposes, also for Patients who
are Delirious..
I FERDINAND KOOPMAN, Direktor of Munich, Germany, Kingdom Bavaria do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for SAFETY-BANDS FOR CHILDREN
FOR SECURING THEM TO PERAMBULATORS, OR BEDSTEADS AND FOR LIKE PURPOSES;
ALSO FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE DELIRIOUS to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide improved means and appliances for
preventing children from falling out of perambulators, cradles &c. and at the same
time to afford the necessary freedom of movement and action of the limbs and
body. My said invention is also applicable to delirious persons and analogous uses.
I fix a broad strap to the perambulator, by means of strings, laces, or straps, and
buckles fitted to the two ends. This strap is placed in front of the child or
children. To this strap is attached, by sewing or rivetting, in the usual manner
a short broad belt having buttons, hooks or buckles at its outer end. A corre-
sponding short belt having button holes, eyes or other holes is also fitted to the
straps in such a manner that it may be capable of sliding on the strap. These two
short belts are made to surround or partially surround the body of the child, and
when fastened together, securely hold the child to the strap.
By additional belts more than one child 'may be secured to the same strap.
The application of the invention to cots, cradles, and bedsteads will be readily
understood from the foregoing description.
In cases where buckles are used, they are so placed as to be prevented from
contact with the child.
In applying my invention to adults it is sometimes advantageous to pad the belt,
or the belt and strap with soft wadding: and, in the case of delirious persons, I also
sometimes provide an additional strap for the feet, with a pair of belts, fitted
thereto, whereby the lower limbs are secured.
7001
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Safety-bands for Children for Securing them to Perambulators
or Bedsteads, and for like Purposes, also for Patients who
are Delirious.
"
I FERDINAND KOOPMANN, Direktor of Munich, Germany, Kingdom Bavaria, do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention .for SAFETY-BANDS FOR CHILDREN
FOR SECURING THEM TO PERAMBULATORS, OR BEDSTEADS AND LIKE PURPOSES, ALSO
FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE DELIRIOUS," and in what manner the same is to be
_performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide improved means and appliances for
preventing children from falling out of perambulators, cradles, &c.; and at the
same time to afford the necessary freedom of movement and action of the limbs
and body. My said invention is also applicable to delirious persons and analogous
uses.
I fix a broad strap to the perambulator, by means of strings, laces, or straps and
buckles fitted to the two ends. This strap is placed in front of the child or
children. To this strap is attached, by sewing or rivetting, in the usual manner
a short broad belt having buttons, hooks, or buckles, at its outer end. A corre-
sponding short belt having button holes, eyes, or other holes, is also fitted to the
strap in such a manner that it may be capable of sliding on the strap. These two
short belts are made to surround or partially surround the body of the child, and,
when fastened together, securely hold the child to the strap.
By additional belts more than one child may be secured to the same strap.
The application of the invention to cots, cradles, and bedsteads will be readily
understood from the foregoing description.
In cases where buckles are used, they are so placed and fitted as to prevent them
from coming in contact with the child.
In applying my, invention to adults, it is sometimes advantageous to pad the
belt, or the belt and strap with soft wadding; and, in the case of delirious persons,
I also sometimes provide an additional strap for the feet with a pair of belts fitted
thereto, whereby the lower limbs are secured.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
J
Fig. I represents the longitudinal strap, a, fitted with strings c, whereby the
same is firmly secured to the perambulator, or other article to which it is desired
to attach the same.
The strap a is fixed and stretched with sufficient firniness to
support the child and prevent it from falling.
The two sliding straps 6162 surround the band a and are capable of sliding
thereon. The additional belts 63 b are attached to the straps 61 68, and provided
with buttons, hooks, or other means of fastening the same. The belts b³ and bare
passed round the waist of the child and fastened, thus leaving the arms free and
yet supporting the child and preventing it from falling.

page_text: In some of the cases herein before referred to, it is necessary to confine the arms
or legs, or the arms and legs; in which case the strap a is fitted with two short
straps bb (Fig. 2) having additional pieces d d, through which the strap ends e e
are passed and secured to the buckles ff.
A modification of the straps bb'is sometimes advantageous, as shewn in Fig. 3,
in which the belts 65 66 are shewn having three strap-ends and three buckles.
Further security is obtained by using the guard belt g which covers the buckles
after they are fastened, and secures the same against accidental unfastening.
I prefer to make my improved safety bands, of goat-skin and linen in com-
bination, and in some cases to pad the same, but I do not confine myself to those
materials, as the strength and composition of the materials must be varied to suit
the purposes for which they are intended.
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 manufacture and use of safety bands having attachments c c for securing
the same to the perambulator or other article, sliding straps 61 62 and waist
belts bab, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn
in Fig. 1 of the drawings.
2. The manufacture and use of safety bands having loops or attachments b b,
straps c c, addition d d, strap ends e e and buckles ff, substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described and shewn in Fig. 2 of the drawings.
3. The manufacture and use, in combination with such safety bands as aforesaid,
of the straps b and be and cover strap g, for imparting additional safety, substan-
tially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
4. The general arrangement and construction of the several and respective parts,
together forming my improved safety bands for children for securing them to
perambulators or bedsteads and like purposes, also for patients who are delirious,
substantially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
Dated 19th day of September 1885:
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.