Improvements in Abdominal, Umbilical, and Supporting Belts.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Abdominal, Umbilical, and Supporting Belts.
I HENRY WILKINSON, 26 Broad Street, Nottingham, Surgical Elastic
Appliance Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows: --
Each belt consists of the following parts, a front piece and two end pieces, each
made of cloth or other material covered with leather.
Each end piece is provided with a number of metal eyelets through which a
cord is passed to draw the ends towards each other and be secured at the back of
the wearer.
At each side of the front piece near the top edge a strap or length of webbing
is secured, their outer ends engage with buckles or parallel sided holdfasts secured
to the top edges of the end pieces. And at each side of the front piece near the
lower edge a strap or length of webbing is secured each passing through loops
secured to the lower edges of the end pieces, the straps are then folded back and
adjusted as to length by a buckle or hold fast attached to the front piece.
Instead of the usual pair of understraps I employ a thigh band of india rubber
having each end terminating in a flat web provided with a clamping loop by which
the length may be adjusted after passing through swivelled loops or buckles secured
near the lower edge of the front piece.
The thigh band after being passed round both thighs has the centre of its length
placed over two pulleys carried by a swivelled bracket secured to the front piece
near its lower edge.
The adjustable ended thigh band prevents the belt from slipping up the body of
the wearer and affords extra support to the lower part of the abdomen.
Belts so constructed may be readily adjusted to the body of the wearer both at
the top and bottom.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of February 1892
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Abdominal, Umbilical, and Supporting Belts.
I HENRY WILKINSON, 26 Broad Street, Nottingham, Surgical Elastic
Appliance Manufacturer, 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 :-
Figure 1 shows an outer side view of one of my improved belts laid out flat.
Each belt consists of the following parts, a front piece 1, and two end pieces 2
and 3, each made of cloth or other material covered with leather, the piece 3 being
somewhat longer than the piece 2. Each end piece is provided with a number of
metal eyelets 4, through which a cord is passed to draw the ends towards each
other with the piece 2 lying over the longer end of the piece 3 at the back of the
wearer where the ends of the cord are tied together.
At each side of the front piece near the top edge a strap or length of webbing 5
is secured, their outer ends engage with buckles or parallel sided holdfasts 6
secured near the top edges of the end pieces. And at each side of the front
piece a strap or length of webbing 7 is secured, each passing through a loop 8
secured near the lower edges of the end pieces, the straps or webbings are then
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page_text: folded back and adjusted as to length, by buckles or holdfasts 9 attached to the
front piece.
Instead of the usual pair of under straps I employ a thigh band 10 of india
rubber having each end terminating in a flat web 11 provided with a clamping
loop 12 by which the length may be adjusted after passing through a swivelled
loop or buckle 13 secured near the lower edge of the front piece.
The thigh band after being passed round both thighs of the wearer has the centre
of its length placed over two pulleys, shown by dotted lines, carried by a swivelled
bracket 14 secured to the front piece near its lower edge.
The adjustable ended thigh band prevents the belt from slipping up the body of
the wearer and thus affords extra support to the lower part of the abdomen.
Belts so constructed may be readily adjusted to the body of the wearer both at
the top and bottom.
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. In abdominal, umbilical and supporting belts, the employment of a thigh
band having each end adjustable to the front piece of the belt, the centre of the
length of the band being placed over pulleys carried by a swivelled bracket
substantially as described for the purpose specified.
2. The construction and employment of improved abdominal, umbilical and.
supporting belts, substantially as described and illustrated in the draw
annexed.
Dated this Eighteenth day of November 1892.