Improvements in Hot Compresses for Animals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hot Compresses for Animals.
I, WILLIAM OLDAKER Commercial Traveller of 16 Lansdowne Terrace
Gosforth Newcastle on Tyne County of Northumberland, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to render hot compresses more easily and readily
applicable either to the abdominal, lung, or kidney part of animals, and to supply
a moist and continuous heat.
I accomplish this in the following manner. I make a compress of one or more
pockets, or pouches, of india rubber, leather, felt, or any suitable material or metal,
or combination of materials; easily attached to any part of the body by straps
and buckles, or other means such as hooks and eyes, by clasps or any suitable
arrangement, and filled with water, steam, or any fluid the heat of which is kept up
either by replacing the heated fluid, or by reheating by the aid of heaters which 1
insert in a jacketed box or boxes, connected to the said pockets, or pouches, or by
keeping the steam up from a boiling vessel, or by having a tank of hot fluid so
connected as to keep in constant circulation, or by a gas apparatus, the pouches
or pockets are covered on one side with felt or other material, or combination
of absorbent materials imbibed with an inert or medicated fluid or medical
compound, which renders the compress moist, at the same time, if required;
as a medicated fomentation, to which a regular heat is transmitted from the said
pockets or pouches.
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Dated this 31st day of October One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hot Compresses for Animals.
I, WILLIAM OLDAKER of 16 Lansdowne Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to render hot compresses more easily and readily
applicable either to the abdominal, lung or kidney part of animals, and to supply
thereto a moist or dry and continuous heat.
This is effected by forming the compresses with one or more pockets or pouches
of india-rubber, leather, felt, or any suitable material or metal or combination of
materials easily attached to any part of the body by straps and buckles, or other
means such as hooks and eyes, by clasps or any suitable arrangement and filled
with water, steam, or any fluid, the heat of which is kept up either by replacing
the heated fluid or by reheating by the aid of heaters which I insert in a jacketed
box or boxes connected to the said pockets or pouches, or by keeping the steam up
from a boiling vessel, or by having a tank of hot fluid so connected as to keep the
fluid in constant circulation, or by a gas apparatus, or in other ways. The pouches
or pockets are covered on one or both sides with felt cloth or other material, or
combination of materials for the purpose of retaining the heat, and where a moist
heat is desired they are used with a loose sheet of felt placed next to the animal's
body and treated or saturated with an inert or medicated fluid or medical
compound which renders the compress a moist one and at the same time if the

page_text: compound be a medicated one forms a medicated fomentation to which a regular
heat is transmitted from the said pockets or pouches.
In the accompanying drawing I have for the purpose of illustration shown one
form of compress constructed according to my invention, Figure 1 being a plan or
top view, and Figure 2 a side elevation or edge view.
In these figures a is the rubber bag portion which may be suitably covered with
cloth or felt for the purpose aforesaid, and is divided up into pockets by stitched
or cemented lines extending partly across same as shown.
It will be seen from the figures that in this form of compress I employ two
rubber bags which are connected together by the buckles d and straps e as shown,
such form being adapted to be placed over the back of an animal such as a horse,
and buckled beneath the belly so that it may be held securely in position, but the
compress may be formed of one continuous bag if desired, depending upon the
nature of the work for which it is destined. Suitable tubes f, g, are provided for
the inlet and discharge of the water or other heating medium, and these where a
constant circulation of the heating fluid is required are suitably connected up so
that a circulation may be maintained through the rubber bag or bags.
In the drawings particularly in Figure 2 the rubber bags are shown as inflated
or filled with water. The sheet of felt to be saturated may be the full length of
the two compresses, and may be placed between the animal's body and the bags.
Such sheet is preferably separate from the bags in order that it may be changed
and cleansed to avoid risk of infection where such is likely, but it may form part of
the bags by being attached to one side of same.
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. A compress for animals consisting of a suitable bag or bags adapted to
contain the water or other heating medium, and provided or not with a sheet of
felt or absorbent material, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A compress for animals consisting of a suitably covered rubber bag or bags
divided into pockets, connections for the circulation of the heating medium, and
straps for securing it to the animal, substantially as described.
3. The improvements in hot compresses for animals, adapted to supply either a
moist or dry heat medicated or not, substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1893.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.