Specification of Thomas Brown : artificial limbs.

  • Brown, Thomas
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Brown : artificial limbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Browns Improvements in Artificial 'Limbs, SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filecf by the said Thomas Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5tH December 1867. • TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Thomas 5 Brown, of No. 96, Newgate Street, in the City of London, Civil Engineer; send greeting. . WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters ' Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her 10 reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said. Thomas Brown, Her special licence, that I,' the said Thomas Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the . said Thomas Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 15 thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain' and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improve^ MENTS IN Artificial Limbs,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, ' the said Thomas Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instrument 20 in writing'under my, or their, or one of their hands and-seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the game was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme¬ diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOV/ KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Brown, do hereby declare, the nature of the.said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and- by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings forming, a part of this Specification :— 30 The first part of the said improvements relates to the knee joint of an^ artificial leg, and to the means for holding the said joint in any- desired. position, and consists chiefly in the employment of a T-shaped bracket or standard which takes the place of the tibia, and whose lower or T-shaped end , . is provided with journals, which are fitted to work freely in oblique boxes 35 secured in the interior of the knee pan. The centres of the said boxes coincide with the centre of the said knee pan, and these boxes are so situated that-they are readily accessible, so that their caps cau be easily removed wheu ,