Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches.

  • Ball, Ancell.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JSalVs Improvements in Invalid Beds and Couches, Sixth. The providing openings in the top or ‘‘ facial ’’ mattress for the reception of the face and toes of the patient, substantially as herein¬ before described. Seventh. The mode of reversing a patient by confining him for the time being between top and bottom mattresses made to turn over or 5 reverse their position, and supporting him laterally whilst being turned over by a hinged or removable side piece or support. Eighth. The construction and use of a night dress or other equivalent garment intended to be worn by a patient when in bed,-wherein the back and front consist of separate and distinct parts united together along the .10 sides by tapes, buttons, or other suitable fastenings, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before described. Ninth. The forming a folding flap in or about the centre of the posterior half of the said improved night shirt, as and for the purpose herein-before described, 15 In witness whereof, I, the said Ancell Ball, have to this my Speci¬ fication set my hand and seal, the Eifth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. ANCELL BALL, (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1872.