Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches.

  • Ball, Ancell.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SalVs ImpTovements in Invalid Seds and Couches. head hoard by shooting the holts 7, 7, with which the said rest is pro¬ vided, into one or other of the holes 8, 8, in the head board, whilst the opposite end of the rest is held in position by being fitted between the projecting ledges 6 and 9, as shown in [Figures 3 and 7. This rest S consists, as shewn in the Drawings, of a wooden frame covered with 5 stretched canvas 10, the frame and canvas coverhig being so shaped and arranged as to form a recess 11 for the reception of the shoulder of the patient. In lieu of a separate rest however, either side of the mattress frame may be made to turn up on hinges into a vertical position, so as to afford the required lateral support to the patient whilst 10 being turned over. The side rest S and facial mattress having been adjusted and secured in their places so as to pack the patient comfortably, the end bolts 6, b, are withdrawn and the entire bed (that is to say the head and foot boards with the “ dorsal ” and “ facial ” mattresses and frames) is reversed or turned upside down upon the longitudinal axis a, a, 15 when the parts will assume the relative positions shewn in Pigure 11, and may be there fixed by the bolts b as before. The “ dorsal ” mattress E and frame D are now at the top and are lifted off after having been released by shooting back the bolts e, e, (Eigures 6, 7, and 8), when the patient will be found lying on his face. If dressed in the improved 20 night dress shown at Figure 20, wherein the sleeves and back and front are all made readily detachable by simply unfastening the strings or fastenings 12,12, which unite the parts, it is obvious that the linen may be changed without disturbance. If desired, a flap shown by dotted lines at 13, in Figm-e 20, may be formed in the posterior half of the 25 garment for the facility of access to the lower part of the back of the patient, and for enabling the bowels to be relieved into the bed pan beneath through the opening left when the flap is drawn up without disturbing the patient. In Figure 12, which represents the parts adjusted so as to accomodate 30 the patient on his side, the bed is turned round ninety degrees on its axis a, a, so as to bring the “ dorsal ” mattress E and its frame into a vertical position, thereby forming the padded back of a coucb, the reclining portion of which is formed by inserting the “ facial ” mattress ” E^ with its frame D' edgewise between the projecting ribs 9 and 6 on the foot 35 board, and between the projecting ribs 6 and 14 on the head board, tbe said frame and mattress being locked in their place by the bolts 5, 5, or otherwise, if found requisite. In Figure 1 of my Drawings, I have represented in red lines, the