Improvements in Aseptic Surgical Suture, Ligature, and like Boxes and Spools.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Aseptic Surgical Suture, Ligature, and like Boxes
and Spools.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON, Managing Director of Fredk. W.
Turton Limited, of Frederick Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing
Jewellers and Silversmiths, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to aseptic surgical suture, ligature and like boxes and
to spools upon which silver wire sutures for sewing up wounds, and cat gut
ligatures for tying blood vessels, and similar filament lengths employed in
surgery are wound, and has for its object, an improved and simplified mounting
for the spool, and for a further object, to make such spools of a material that
will admit of the same being readily kept clean.
The box consists of a drum shaped casing having an open end and a vertical
and axial pivot or stalk directed upwardly from its bottom and upon which
the spool, whereon the suture wires or cat gut ligatures or the like are wound,
is mounted and is capable of freely rotating, whilst the open end is closed by a
lid.
The spool has a hole made through that flange of the same which comes at
the and near the periphery for securing the wire or cat gut on the spool, and
has also an axial hole by which it is threaded onto the axial stalk on the box,
the side walls of which have a piercing or hole, through which the wire or cat
gut outwardly passes and admits of being drawn therethrough off the rotating
spool.
The spool is made of glass, silver or wood, or of enamelled earthenware, or
of enamelled metal, or metal otherwise coated with, vitreous material which will
admit of the spool being readily cleansed by antiseptic solutions or otherwise.
Dated this Sth day of March 1898.
İmprovements in Aseptic Surgical Suture, Ligature, and like Boxes
and Spools.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON, Managing Director of Fredk. W.
Turton Limited, of Frederick Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing
Price 8d.1

page_text: Jewellers and Silversmiths, 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:-
This invention relates to aseptic surgical suture, ligature and like boxes con-
taining spools upon which silver wire sutures for sewing up wounds, and cat-gut
ligatures for tying blood vessels, and similar filament lengths employed in
surgery are wound, and has for its object, an improved and simplified mounting
for the spool, and for a further object, to make such spools of a material that
will admit of the same being readily kept clean.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of my anti-
septic suture or ligature box.
Figure 2 is a vertical section thereof.
Figure 3 is an edge view of the said box, and
Figure 4 represents a view of the said box with the casing in section upon
the dotted line a, Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a complete vertical section of the said box, also upon the dotted
line a, Figure 3.
Figure 6 is a section of the body part of the box separately, and Figure 7
is an elevation of the open side or end thereof.
Figure 8 is a vertical section and Figure 9 a side elevation of the other part
of the box, consisting of the lid or closure for the open end combined, with a
spool or filament holder.
Figure 10 is a front elevation of this part.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
The box consists of a drum-shaped casing or body part a, made preferably
of silver, having an open end a¹, with a vertical and axial pivot or stalk 6,
directed upwardly from its bottom or closed end, and upon which the spool e,
whereon the suture wires or cat-gut ligatures d, or the like are wound, is
mounted and is capable of freely rotating. The said spool is preferably con-
nected with the closure or lid e, which then forms a means for rotating the
spool for winding on the suture, ligature or the like and being milled, or serrated
at the edges for the purpose.
The spool has a hole, made through the flange c¹, which comes at the inner
side and near the periphery for securing the end d, of the wire or cat-gut on
the spool, and has also an axial hole, by which it is threaded on to the axial stalk
of the box, the side walls of which have a piercing or hole at ³, through which
the wire or cat-gut outwardly passes and admits of being drawn therethrough
off the rotating spool.
The spool is made of glass, silver or wood or of enamelled earthenware, or of
enamelled metal, or metal otherwise coated with vitreous material which will
admit of the spool being readily cleansed by antiseptic solutions or otherwise,
whilst by providing for the rotation of the enclosed spool through the lid or
cap of the casing, there is no necessity for an operator to handle the said spool
or any part of the ligature, suture or the like wound thereon other than the
length drawn off for use.
If necessary, the central axis may be dispensed with, and further, the lid may
be made integral with the spool, either in earthenware or glass, or in enamelled
metal.
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―
First An antiseptic suture, ligature or like box consisting of a casing
having a central axis upon which is mounted, a freely running spool of earthen-
ware, glass or other material having an enamelled surface, and upon which

page_text: the suture, ligature or like lengths are wound, substantially as and for the pur-
pose as described and set forth.
Secondly In an antiseptic suture, ligature or like box, the employment
in connection with a casing or box provided with an aperture for the running
of the wire or gut length therethrough, of a combined lid or cap and spool of
the kind referred to in the preceding claim, substantially as and for the pur-
pose described, and set forth.
Thirdly An antiseptic suture, ligature or like box, consisting of a casing,
pierced with a hole in the side and having within it a central axis, upon which
is loosely mounted, a spool of earthenware, glass or like material, upon which
silver wire, cat-gut or the like is wound, and being attached to the lid or cap
of the box, which forms a means for rotating the said spool, substantially as
and for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 8th day of November 1898
FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.