US17670A - Ttteriwe-stjppobteh - Google Patents

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W. E. COOKE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

UTERINE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,670, dated June 30, 1857.

.T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. E. CooKE, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporters and Trusses for Females; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view from the front of the truss or supporter. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view from the rear part thereof. Fig. 3 represents the pessary and its support, detached from the truss or supporter, and Fig. 4 represents a vertical section through the pessary.

Similar letters of reference where they occur in the several figures denote like parts of the truss in all of them.

The object of this invention is to relieve and permanently cure prolapsus uteri and the other diseases consequent thereto, and the nature of the invention relates to the manner in which the supporter and truss is made self adjusting or self yielding to the body of the wearer in all its material parts, as will be explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A represents the front pad, to which is rigidly fixed the two looped bars a, (1. Through the loops of these bars a, pass the two steel bars B, B, which are pivoted together at their overlapping ends by a pin 0, so that said bars may move or pivot on said pin, and also move in the loops of the bars or arms a. Adjusting holes 6, 6, may also be made in the bars B, so that they may be extended or shortened as occasion may require. The ends of the bars B, farthest from their pivoted point, are bent up, so as to form nearly a right angle with their more horizontal parts, and upon these bent u ends flanges f, f, are turned so as to form aloop or slide, into which the ends i, i, of the side or hip bars 0, 0, may enter and be made adjustable. A set screw 12, is placed in the ends of each of the loops on the bars a, so that a regulated amount of friction may be had on the bars B, to prevent them from too readily moving in said loops.

On the rear part of the supporter and truss are two pads D, D, to each one of which is affixed a loop or pressure arm or bar m, having a set screw 0 therein to regulate the friction between it and a bar E, which passes through each of said pressure bars m. The two overlapping ends of these bars E, are pivoted together at r, and they may also ave adjusting holes therein, for shortening or lengthening said bars. The ends of these bars E, E, most remote from the pivoted point 1", are bent up, so as to form an obtuse angle withtheir more horizontal parts or bases, and these bent up ends 8, 8, pass into loops or slides formed on the ends of the side or hip bars C, C, said loops or slides being formed by turning flanges '11., a, on the ends of said bars C. The spring bars or ribs thus made and united together and to the pads form the truss, and it may be adjusted in two directions viz: *by drawing the ends of the bars through the slides or loops formed by the flanges, respectively, and by raising or lowering the hip bars 0, and thus correspondingly lowering and raising their ivoted points 0, r, and thus adapt themselves to the body of the wearer. Additional loops 'v, v, are ermanently fixed to the front pad A, into w iich slide the two ends of a piece of bent steel wire to are inserted, being first flattened out, as seen at w, as, Fig. 1, for that purpose. This piece of wire to, as seen in Fig. 8, forms a bow or yoke y, which holds the neck 1, of a pessary F, formed of ivory or other similarly suitable material. The stem 2 of the pessary has a long screw thread 2 out upon it, and on this screw thread a nut 3, within the ball of the pessary may be run up or down. The nut 3, has projections 4, 4 upon it, against which and against the roof of the ball of the pessary presses a helical spring 5, which allows said ball to yield to any undue pressure, as for instance in bending the body, or stooping, and when the person is erect the spring again returns the ball to its former regulated position. The ball F, can be raised or lowered on the stem 2 by means of the before described nut 3.

The parts of the truss or su porter which are in immediate contact wit the body of the user may be covered with buckskin, india rubber, or such other material as comfort or cleanliness may require.

The pessary has three sources of adjustability or adaptability to the motions of the body of the user viz:- through the spring wire w, and the pad A, by the neck 1, of the stem of the pessary, and the yoke y, and finally by the helical spring 5, within the ball of the pessary.

The truss and supporter may be removed or put on with great ease and convenience there being nothing to fasten or unfasten or to adjust after it is first fitted to the wearer. 7

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, I would state that I do not claim the ivoting of the bars B, B, and E, E, toget er at the points 0, r, but

What I do claim herein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The manner of uniting the bars B, B, and V7 p i E, E, to each other; and to their pads respectively, through the intervention of the side or hip bars 0, C, so that the truss and supporter may not only be adjustable, but also self adjusting to the person, or body of the wearer, as herein set forth and explained.

2. I also claim in combination with the front pad A, an adjustable essary made and operating substantially in t e manner herein set forth.

W. E. COOKE.

Witnesses:

JNo. A. EMERIOK, SAML. E. KISTER.

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