Specification of Thomas Paton Hawksley : stethoscope.

  • Hawksey, Thomas Paton.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Paton Hawksley : stethoscope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. Hawksley s Improved Construction of Stethoscope. metal, brass, iron, or any other metal. This collector is made in the shape of a cone, with its edge turned upwards and outwards, so as to protect the skin of the patient from abrasion when being applied. The collector being soldered to one end of the tube which is also made of metal, at the other end of which is the “ear plate ” or “vibrator 99 to be 5 applied to the ear during auscultation. This ear plate is made of ebonite or vulcanite, conveniently curved to fit the ear of the physician, and is attached by rivets, screws, or any other means to the opposite end of the tube to which the collector is fixed. The advantages of this improved stethoscope are its superior acoustical 10 qualities to enable the physician to hear more particularly sounds heard from the chest, and for its greater durability by reason of its being made of metal and ebonite or vulcanite. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the said Thomas Paton Hawksley in the Great Seal Patent 15 Office on the 3rd October 1873. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Thomas Paton Hawksley, of No. 4, Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Surgical Instrument Maker, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 20 Letters Patent, bearing date the Eifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty- sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Paton Hawksley, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Paton Hawksley, my executors, administrators, 25 and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Paton Hawksley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain 30 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “An Improved Construction op Stethoscope,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Paton Hawksley, my executors or ad-
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