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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    BalVs Improvements in Invalid Beds and Couches. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Ancell Ball in the Great Seal Patent OfQ.ce on the 7th June 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Ancell Ball, of Spalding, in the County of Lincoln, Physician, send greeting. 5 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 35th year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ancell Ball, Her special license that 10 I, the said Ancell Ball, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Ancell Ball, my executors, administrators, or 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, witlun the 15 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Invalid Beds and Couches, and in Fittings therefor,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Ancell Ball, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly 20 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 OfQ.ce within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ancell Ball, do hereby declare the 25 nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :— My said Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement 30 of invalid bed or couch and fittings therefor, whereby the patient can be readily placed in any desired position without any exertion on his part. The essential features of my Invention are the use of specially con¬ structed top and bottom mattresses and frames (which I designate 35