Improvements in the Manufacture of Trusses.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SP.
AION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Trusses.
We, ACCRINGTON SURGICAL APPLIANCES COMPANY, LIMITED, of 32 Dale
Street, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Surgical Appliance Manufacturers,
and WILLARD J. BELL, of 32 Dale Street aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of single or double
hernial trusses designed to fit different sized persons, and to yield to all the various
movements of the body of the wearer, and to maintain an equible pressure on the
pad or pads. The truss is thus comfortable to the wearer, and effective in its
action.
According to this invention, we employ a double curved pad or support, covered
with thick felt or other soft material which fits in the small of the back of the
wearer. A steel or hard brass nickel plated wire supporting bar is fixed to the
curved pad, and the outer ends of the bar terminate in loops. To each loop is
adjustably attached, by buckle or hooks, an elastic web band, which, when in
position, passes round the body of the wearer above the hip bones, and the front
part of the band is attached to a plate on which is a soft pad, or a hollow rubber
pad filled with water or air. The front part of the band is connected by buckle or
otherwise with the band from the other side of the back pad, and on this band
(when the truss is a double one) there is also a pad. A narrow band from the back
pad is connected with the front part of the band, to maintain the pad or pads in
position.
اليفة
1000
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Trusses.
We, ACCRINGTON SURGICAL APPLIANCES COMPANY LIMITED, of 32 Dale
Street, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Surgical Appliance Manufacturers,
and WILLARD J. BELL, of 32 Dale Street aforesaid, Engineer, 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 improvements in the manufacture of single or double
hernial trusses designed to fit different sized persons and to yield to all the various
movements of the body of the wearer, and to maintain an equable pressure on the
pad or pads. The truss is thus comfortable to the wearer and effective in its

page_text: Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which :--
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one of the improved trusses, the different parts
being shewn in the relative position assumed when the truss is in use.
Fig. 2 is a back view of Fig. 1.
According to this invention, we employ a double curved pad or support 1 covered
with thick felt or other soft material which fits in the small of the back of the
A steel or hard brass nickel plated wire supporting bar 2 is fixed to the
curved pad 1, and the outer ends of the bar 2 terminate in loops, or the brackets 3, 3
fixing the bars 2 to the support 1 practically provide the same results as the loops
by limiting the amount of movement allowed the bands 4. To each loop, or each
eud of the bar 2, is adjustably attached by web bands 4 and buckles or hooks 5, an
elastic web band 6, which when in position, passes round the body of the wearer
above the hip bones, and the front part of the band 6 is attached to a plate 7 on
which is a soft pad 8, or a hollow rubber pad 8 filled with water or air. The front
part of the plate 7 is adjustably connected by buckle 84 and hook and eye 9, or
otherwise, with the band 10 from the other side of the back pad 1, and on this
band 10 (when the truss is a double one) there is also a plate 7 and pad 8.
..A narrow band 11 from the back pad 1, or band 6 or 10, is connected with the
front part of the plate 7 by hook and eye 12 to maintain the pad 8 or pads in
position.
When the truss is a double one the band 10 is lengthened and has a plate 7 and
pad 8 thereon similar to the band 6, the adjusting band and buckle 8 being also
employed in duplicate, as is also the narrow band 11, or the plate 7 may be
lengthened and two pads 8 fixed thereon, otherwise the truss being as shewn by the
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
(1) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting
the improved truss as herein described and substantially as illustrated by the
annexed drawings.
(2) A double curved back pad to which are attached bands 6, 10, a plate 7, soft
pad 8, and maintaining band 11, all in combination, as and for the purpose herein
described and substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(3) A double curved back pad to which are attached bands 6, 10 carrying soft
pads 8 together with the means of adjusting the several parts as and for the
purpose herein described and substantially as illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
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3005
ACCRINGTON SURGICAL APPLIANCES CO., LD.,
WILLARD J. BELL,
By their Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.