Improvements in body belts, rupture belts, or supports and the like, for surgical and hygienic purposes / [Heinrich Burger].
- Bürger, H. (Heinrich)
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Improvements in body belts, rupture belts, or supports and the like, for surgical and hygienic purposes / [Heinrich Burger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 1 JST° 23,471 A.D.1897 Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1897 Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1898-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1898 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Body Belts, Rapture Belts, or Supports and the like, for Surgical and Hygienic Purposes. Heinekk Btooee, of Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, Germany, Doctor ot Medicine, and Theodor Lutz, of Baden-Baden, Germany, Apothecary, do hereby declare the nature ot this invention to be as follows:_ 1 ' <lur invention relates to improved constructions of body belts for surgical and Hygienic purposes such as for navel ruptures and the like, which belts are combined with a dorsal support, and the fastening of which to the front pad or plate of the belt is not effected by means of buckles as heretofore, but by means of buttons or studs. With the customary fastenings of rupture belts and the like by means ot two or more straps, there was heretofore either no dorsal support at all or the straps were combined with a dorsal plate or pad without means of adjustment and so that they easily slipped near together, more particularly at the hips, by the movements of the body, whereby the pad or plate was caused to lose its hold, and m slipping upwards, became inefficient, and frequently caused the wearer considerable pain, owing to the excessive and concentrated pressure of the straps when shifted together. 1 According to the present invention, there is combined with the straps a special dorsal plate which has suitable perforations for the attachment of the straps by means of cords or laces, the said attachments being so arranged that the straps can be secured nearer together or farther apart, according to requirements, so that as the straps, m consequence of their arrangement, must always be parallel, a pushing together thereof is impossible. As furthermore the belt or pad com¬ bined with the straps in the above described manner cannot possibly lose its hold, being held equally at top and bottom by the parallel straps, the auxiliary supporting straps such as aie necessary with belts or supports of usual construction, can be entirely dispensed with. On the accompanying drawing is shewn by way of example a body belt or support constructed according to our above described invention. big. 1 shews the complete body belt with the new dorsal support and the new mode of strap fastening. Tig. 2 shews an enlarged detailed view of the front part or pad of the belt, together with the mode of securing the straps. Fig. 3 shews an enlarged back view of the dorsal support or plate. I he belt consists of the two straps c and e1 which are secured to any desired form of front support pad, or plate a, by means of the studs h, and are attached to the dorsal support, plate or pad d by means of cords or laces. This support consists of a plate of any suitable material in which are formed rows of holes d1 serving for the passage of the laces or cords e which secure the straps c, similarly provided with holes, in the manner shewn. The straps are thus effectually secured in their relative positions by the dorsal plate, and cannot shift nearer together; but they can be shifted nearer together or farther apart on the plate d by passing the cords or laces through a different set of holes of the latter. [Price 8d.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30739408_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
