Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches.

  • Ball, Ancell.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Invalid Beds and Couclies. LETTERS PATENT to Ancell Ball, of Spalding, in the County of Lincoln, Physician, for the Invention of Improvements in Invalid Beds and Couches, and in Fittings therefor.” Sealed the 30th April 1872, and dated the 7th December 1871. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said AnceU Ball at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th December 1871. I, Ancell Ball, of Spalding, in the County of Lincoln, Physician, 5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements IN Invalid Beds and Couches, and in Fittings therefor,” to be as follows :— This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of invalid bed or couch and fittings therefor, whereby the patient can be readily placed in any desired position without the slightest bodily exertion.
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