Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Improvements in pelvical belts or bands / [Snr. Bracco]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![N° 13,194 A.D.1904 Date of Application, 10th June, 1904—Accepted, 14th July, 1904 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Pelvical Belts or Bands. 10 I, (juglielmo Bracco, Senior, Doctor and Surgeon, of 22 Hue Della-ltocco, Turin, in the Kingdom of Italy, 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: — fy The object of my invention is provide a belt or band for supporting or com¬ pressing the abdominal viscera or some of them in such cases when the con¬ ditions of the body, either by reason or sickness or otner causes requires such, a treatment. This invention is particularly intended to assist women in a state of pregnancy and alter chiluoirth. Belts or bands constructed according to this invention differ from others such as are already known owing to their peculiar form which enables them to vest the body better than any other and renders them steadier and more fixed to the body to the full advantage of their therapeutical function. In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows in plan a belt constructed accord- ing to this invention entirely laid open and Figs. 2, T, and 4 shew respectively a front, back and side view of a belt applied to the body of a person. The belt or band is composed of three portions viz, a central portion A, and twTo side portions B, (J, the portion A intended to vest the pelvis or abdomen and the portions B and C intended to vest the thighs. Each portion is provided 20 with a system of buckles and straps for fastening them on to the body. When the band or belt is vested on the body the ends D, E of the portion A are fastened in a straight vertical line in correspondence with the xipho-pubical line through the full width of the belt or band, the other two portions are made of such a shape that the lower parts thereof, F, (T, FL, (T1 run vertically on the 25 external side of the thigh, whilst the upper parts (i, II, (I1, II1, follows the lower border I H of the central portion of the belt by the buttocks. The belt or band may be made of any known material such as cloth of various qualities, but it is preferred to construct it as shewn in the drawings from which it will be seen that the belt is built up of strips of small width, about one 30 centremetre wide, interlaced and sewn to each other so as to form a kind of net-work. By this means it becomes easy to attain the desired lesult, vie, that the portion of belt or band under the longitudinal strip a a1, b ¥ becomes one and the same piece embracing jointly thighs and pelvis. In fact all the longitudinal strips which are formed under a b and have a direction parallel 35 to it are common to the central and to the side portions of the belt or band, so that every element of the side portion bears for its pull on the back of the person and the central and side portions of the belt or band are consequently coacting in a single effort. . . . .. , The longitudinal strips a b of the central portion are interlaced with vertical 40 strips m n having a direction parallel to the back bone. They are also interlaced in the side portions with strips r s crossing at a small angle and strengthening cross strips t u are employed near the junction between the central and side ^Ttageneral shape of the band or belt is clearly shewn in the several figures 45 of the drawings, but attention is drawn to the following features L-The upper border of the central portion runs in the front near the navel and follows on r Price Sd.] S| ;'W](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30737230_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
