Specification of Joseph Amesbury : apparatus for supporting the human body.

  • Joseph Amesbury
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Amesbury : apparatus for supporting the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Amesburys Apparatus for the Support of the Human Body. Figures 82 and 92 of my former Patent, the lower straps 104 being likewise similar to those in Figures 82 and 92 ; so likewise the shoulder pieces 100, Figure 84, and 100, 100, Figure 29, are similar in the two Patents, but with slight variations made to adapt them to the particular cases; for instance, I have now under my care married ladies having spinal distortions and who are 5 also in a state of pregnancy, and consequently require a support adapted to both those cases. In these more complex cases I employ parts of my “ spine support,” which are already shewn and described in Figures 29 and 30, and which are particularly indicated by the letters y, h, i, j, and also by 100, 100, and 104, 104, in Figure 29. These parts of my “ spine support ” are used in 10 connection with those parts of my “ adjustable support” shewn and described in Figures 13, 14, 15, 16, & 17, with the adjustable spring shown at Figure 18. In these cases the compound body support might be closed up • behind in the manner shown in Figure 28, or with one standard only, as is shown at Figure 92 of my former Patent, as for spinal curvature. The parts 15 of the front of this compound body support are to be adjusted and used in the same manner as the separate parts already described are to be used in cases of pregnancy or otherwise, and where no distortion of the spine exists. In cases of considerable enlargement of the abdomen, but which, however, may not be such as to require the use of the adjustable spring, Figure 18, the con- 20 trivance of laces and tapes shown at A, A, and J, J, Figure 6, or the buckles and straps and tapes, shown in Figure 7, might be used in connection with those parts of the spinal support above described or alluded to. By this arrangement the support might be better adapted to the particular case under treatment. In slight cases of protuberance of the abdomen, the apparatus 25 shown at A, A, and C, C, in Figure 1, may be advantageously adapted to the “ spine support,” and used in connection wit it. I now proceed to declare, firstly, that I disclaim the right to the exclusive use of any part or parts of the said apparatus separately which part or parts were previously known and in use. 30 Secondly, I disclaim the exclusive right to the use of any of the various parts of the said apparatus, however variously constructed, and which are herein- mentioned and described, that were previously known and in use, except when I use the said part or parts in new and useful combination or combinations. Thirdly, I disclaim the exclusive right to the use of any of the different 35 materials of which the various parts of the said apparatus are composed, excepting so far as the said materials are used by me in the construction of such part or parts of the said apparatus as are new in principle, or in new and useful combination or combinations.
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