Specification of Michael Henry : artificial hands, feet, and limbs.

  • Henry, Michael.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Michael Henry : artificial hands, feet, and limbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Henry's Improvements in the Construction of Avtifcicd Hands, Feet, Limbs. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Michael Henry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th September 1860. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Michael Henry, of 84, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agent, send 5 greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the 10 said Michael Henry, Her special licence that I, the said Michael Henry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Michael Henry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, 15 use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Improve¬ ments in the Construction of Artificial Hands, Feet, and Limbs, or Substi¬ tutes for Natural Hands, Feet, and Limbs, and Parts thereof,” a communica¬ tion from abroad by Jose Gallegos, of 33, Boulevard S*. Martin, Paris, 20 France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Michael Henry, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent 25 Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michael Henry, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following SO statement thereof, as communicated to me, reference being had to the accom¬ panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :— This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of artificial hands, feet, and limbs, or substitutes for natural hands, feet, and limbs, and 35 parts thereof. By means of these improvements mechanical movements are obtained resembling the natural action of the human members; they are cheap in construction, and of so simple a description as to be easily obtained,