Improvements in means of putting up threads, ligatures, sutures or the like / [Giles Henry Zeal].

  • Zeal, Giles Henry.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Improvements in means of putting up threads, ligatures, sutures or the like / [Giles Henry Zeal]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ND 12,7 l.-AJD. 1901. Improvements in Means for Putting Up Threads, Ligatures, Sutures or the like. In my Specification of Patent Ao. 23,692 of tlie year 1J00, I described means for a like purpose in which, a glass reel or reels is or are supported on an axle consisting1 of a glass rod or tube enclosed within a glass chamber closed at both ends and supported centrally in said chamber, or nearly so, by flanges formed at the ends of said rod or tube . 0 It has been found that as the axle was tree to move endwise within the con¬ tainer, breakage sometimes occurred in transit. The object of my present invention is to remedy the above inconvenience. I will describe my present invention by the aid of the accompanying drawings in which Pig: 1 is a longitudinal section representing my improvements and 10 Pig: 2 is a sectional view showing a slight modification. a is a glass tube or cylinder closed at the ends, a1 are filling and closing apertures in the side thereof h h are glass reels upon which the thread, ligature or suture is wound and c is an axle on which the reels h are placed. According to my present invention I form the glass container a with inturned ] /> ends a* of a somewhat conical form, the glass axle c being of such length as to enable it to be held with but very slight endwise play, centrally within the container a by the said inturned ends a* entering the ends of said axle, when the latter is tubular as shown, or into end recesses formed in such axle when the latter is solid. 2 0 The axle c is formed with a flange c1 at each end to prevent the reel or end reels from passing off said axle and becoming jammed on the inturned ends a* but such flanges as .shown, in the drawings, are not required to hold the; said axle centrally within the container. The ends d of the threads on the reels are drawn out through the orifices a1 25 and each passed through a plug e of india rubber, which plugs are pressed into the orifices a1, the container being filled with antiseptic or disinfecting fluid as described in my aforesaid specification. Glass rings / are placed on the axle c between the adjacent ends of the reels to separate the latter and keep them properly spaced. 30 In the modification shown at Pig ; 2, the container a may be formed with externally projecting, preferably conical ends a** and the glass axle c has its ends correspondingly formed to be held centrally wdthin the container. It will be evident that the container may be made to contain only one reel or other numbers of reels. 33 Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is: 1. In means for putting up threads, ligatures, sutures or the like, the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts for supporting the reel axle centrally 40 of the container, substantially as herein set forth. 2. In means for putting up threads, ligatures, sutures or the like forming the container with inturned ends to fit end recesses in the reel axle so as to hold the latter centrally of the container with but slight end play, substantiallv as herein set forth. \ ' 43 3. In means for putting up threads, ligatures, sutures or the like, forming the container with externally projecting ends of preferably conical form, to fit correspondingly formed ends of the real axle, substantially as herein set forth. Baled this 19th day of March 1902. HARRIS & MILLS, 5(, 23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.G. Agents. Redhill: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Love & Maicomson, Ltd.—1902.