Improvements in ambulance appliances / [Herbert Dimsdale Headley].

  • Headley, Herbert Dimsdale.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Improvements in ambulance appliances / [Herbert Dimsdale Headley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 2675 A. D. 1894 Date of Apolication, 7th Feb., 1894 Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1894—Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Ambulance Appliances. We, Herbert Dumsdale Headley, of No. 44 High Street, Ashford, in the County of Kent, Printer, and Paul I’anson Headley also of No. 44 High Street, Ashford, in the County of Kent, Ambulance Appliance Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— 5 This invention relates to the construction of appliances for ambulance purposes consisting mainly of a stretcher a wheeled litter and fittings for their use separately or in combination. In constructing the stretcher, two poles, having their ends formed as handles, are passed through wide seams at the sides of a canvas bed and are kept apart by jointed 10 stays at each end of the bed. Each of these poles may consist of a middle tubular part with end parts which may be slid into the tubular part. The jointed stays have their ends hollowed to partly embrace the poles and have mounted under them rollers on which the stretcher can run. 15 The litter has two cycle wheels on a cross axle on which is fixed within each wheel a frame consisting of a bent steel bar carrying a wooden longitudinal bar, these bent steel bars being connected by transverse bolts and having such elasticity as to constitute springs with additional plates if necessary. To the axle are also fixed by the same bolts other bent steel bars constituting feet on which the litter 2U can rest, the bars being then fixed by catches to the spring bars above. When the litter is moved on its wheels the feet are drawn up from the ground and fixed by catches higher up the spring bars. On the wooden cross bars are caoutchouc or other elastic cushions on which the stretcher can rest being strapped on. Also at each side of the litter frame there are jointed two tubular arms wbicb 25 can be folded down along the wooden cross bars or can be turned to an inclined position towards the front and rear, and, when in that position, the iront pair are connected by a metal rod bent so that its ends enter the ends of the tubes, and the rear pair are similarly connected. The four tubular arms and the rods which connect them form a frame on which is placed a cover of suitable fabric. 30 The litter and stretcher can also be arranged so as to form a carriage seated for two persons. For this purpose the stretcher poles are passed through end parts of the canvas seams not through the middle part which is thus left free. The front tubular arm is connected to the rear tubular arm on each side by a bent rod like 35 one of those above mentioned for supporting the cover and over this rod which is preferably padded the canvas of the middle part of the stretcher bed is passed forming two inclined backs for persons seated on the front and rear parts of the bed. When the litter and stretcher are used in this way, a piece of canvas is hung in a bight or loop from the poles in front and in rear, each bight with pieces of 40 wood to form a rest for the feet of the passengers. The litter carriage may have suspended from its top frame a hamper or other receptacle for ambulance appliances. Dated this 7th day of February 1894. 45 ABEL & IMRAY, Agents lor the Applicants. [Pn’cf 8d.]