Improvements in Sterilized Surgical Dressing.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1898-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1898
Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1898-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sterilized Surgical Dressing.
We, THEODORE YOUNG KINNE, of No. 9, Church Street, in the City of Paterson,
County of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Physician, and DARIUS SMITH,
of No. 310, South State Street, in the City of Syracuse, County of Onondaga,
and State of New York, U.S.A., Druggist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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The object of our present invention is to provide a marketable sterilized sur-
gical dressing for surgeons, hospitals, private use etc., in which the deterioration
when not in use is effectually prevented, and the danger of inoculating
diseases to patients treated with said dressing is avoided.
Heretofore surgical dressing has been put in glass or porcelain jars, or in
wooden boxes, and was thus exposed to the air when said jars or boxes were
opened for use, and even when the said dressing was sterilized before being placed
in said jars or boxes-the danger of inoculating diseases was not excluded, as
the said dressing was liable to become impure when being exposed to the air.
The most essential feature of our said invention is to sterilize the dressing
together with the receptacle containing the same (after the said receptacle has
been closed), and to provide said receptacle of compressible material such as
lead or analogous ductile and impervious metal, with a very small discharge
opening, so as to be able to easily handle said receptacle and dressing and to
regulate the quantity desired and necessary for immediate use.
For the above purpose the dressing is put into the well known compressible
(lead) paint tubes, and after the screw-threaded cap has been put upon the screw-
threaded end of said tube, the air is being expelled and the opposite open end
of said tube is being pressed and folded together, to hermetically close the same.
The said tube together with the dressing is now subjected to a sterilizing pro-
cess, and for that purpose is heated under pressure-in a moist atmosphere--to
from 200 to 240 degrees F.
It is important to sterilize said tube together with the dressing in a moist heat
and under pressure, and to have the air expelled from said tube before the sterili-
zation, as otherwise the tube is liable to melt or burst.
By proceeding in the manner above stated, a surgical sterilized dressing is
obtained, which obviates the danger of inoculation to patients treated with it or
to persons handling the same.
The dressing is readily accessible and the desired quantity can easily be
obtained by compressing the lower end of the tube without unduly exposing to
the air that part of the dressing which is contained in the tube.
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page_text: Improvements in Sterilized Surgical Dressing.
We, THEODORE YOUNG KINNE, of No. 9, Church Street, in the City of Paterson,
County of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Physician, and DARIUS SMITH,
of No. 310, South State Street, in the City of Syracuse, and County of Onondaga,
and State of New York, U.S.A., Druggist, 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 object of our present invention is to provide a marketable sterilized sur-
gical dressing for surgeons, hospitals, private use etc., in which the deterioration
-when not in use is effectually prevented, and the danger of inoculating
diseases to patients treated with said dressing is avoided.
Heretofore surgical dressing has been put up in glass or porcelain jars, or in
wooden boxes, and was thus exposed to the air when said jars or boxes were
opened for use, and even when the said dressing was sterilized before being placed
in said jars or boxes-the danger of inoculating diseases was not excluded, as
the said dressing was liable to become impure when being exposed to the air.
The most essential feature of our invention is to sterilize the dressing
together with the receptacle containing the same, and to construct said receptacle
of compressible material-such as lead or analogous ductile and impervious metal
with a very small discharge opening, so as to be able to easily handle said
receptacle and dressing and to regulate the quantity desired and necessary for
immediate use.
For the above purpose the dressing is put into the well known compressible
(lead) paint tubes, and after the same have been closed by respective screw
threaded caps, the air is being expelled and the lower opposite ends of the tubes
are folded and pressed together, to thus hermetically close the same.
The tube together with the dressing is afterwards subjected to a sterilizing pro-
cess and for that purpose is heated in a moist atmosphere-under pressure-to
from 200 to 400 degrees F.
It is important to sterilize the tubes with the dressing in a moist heat and
under pressure, and that the air is being expelled before the sterilizing, to pre-
vent said tube from bursting or melting during the process of sterilization.
By proceeding in the manner above stated, a surgical sterilized dressing is
obtained, which obviates the danger of inoculation to patients treated with it or
to persons handling the same.
The dressing is readily accessible and the desired quantity can easily be
obtained by compressing the lower end of the tube, without unduly exposing to
the air that part of the dressing which is contained in the tube.
We do not claim a dressing put up in compressible tubes, neither do we make
any claim on the process of sterilizing dressing, which is not contained within a
tube of this kind, as neither of them would be within the spirit of our invention
and would furnish a dressing of the character above referred to, but:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim, is:
1: As a new article of manufacture sterilized surgical dressing put up in 4
compressible hermetically sealed sterilized ductile and impervious metal tubes,
substantially as described.
2:-The process of manufacturing marketable sterilized surgical dressin
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page_text: sisting in first depositing the dressing in a compressible tube or receptacle, in
afterwards discharging the air from the interior of said tube or receptacle and in
hermetically closing the same, and in finally subjecting said tube and dressing to
a sterilizing process, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of June 1898.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.