US1342252A

US1342252A - Water-bag

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Publication number: US1342252A
Application number: US278646A
Authority: US
Inventors: Delia A Climes
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-02-24
Filing date: 1919-02-24
Publication date: 1920-06-01
Anticipated expiration: 1937-06-01

Description

D. A. CLIM ES.

WATER BAG. APPLICATIONVFILED FEB. 24, 1919.

Patented June 1, 1 920,-

INVENTOR. U954 Q WITNESS:

' ATTORNEY.

DELIA A. CLIMES, or sAnpIEeo, CALIFORNIA.

WATER-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1920.

Application filed February 24, 1919. Serial No. 278,646.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, DELIA A. CLIMEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Diego, county of San Diego, and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ater-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

IVhile there is a need and a demand for a water bag which has an opening in the center or elsewhere which will permit of the water-bag being placed over a wound or sore without touching the wound or sore, yet such water-bags as are now constructed and on the marketv do not permit of the r being manufactured cheaply and economically, and sold at a reasonable price, because of their bulky, awkward shape due to their concavo-convex form. c

It is the object of my invention to provide a simply-constructed water bag with an opening which will permit of its opening being placed over a wound or sore without touching the same and giving either cold or hot water temperatures to the surrounding tissues, which bag can be made cheaply, packed compactly, sold at a low price and which when empty will occupy much less space than if its form were permanently maintained by its outer wall being more extensive than an inner wall and having these two walls meeting and joining-at their edges around the central opening.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a side elevation in:

part section showing the bag distended by water Fig. 2 is the same empty and de.-..

fiated, Fig. 3 is a top plan and Fig. 4 is a detailed view of a collapsible tube in longitudinal section showing the flanges lying on the walls.

' Walls 1 and 2 of my bag are parallel. or

flat and of the same size and may be of any desired shape. In the center of each wall or elsewhere as may be desired, is an opening 3 of any desired size of the same diameter in each wall. At this opening, wall 1 is attached and fastened to the end of an elastic flexible collapsible tube 4, and wall 2 is fastened to the other end of said elastic flexible collapsible tube 4 of practically the same diameter as the opening in each wall and thus the tube when made of circular shape forms an annular partition around the opening in each wall and extends through the bag and the water therein contained from wall to wall and prevents the water from escaping through the central opening, so as to permit such opening to be placed over a wound or sore.

This tube 4 may be round or'any other desired shape and fastened at each end in any desired manner to the walls 1 and 2. The most desirable method of fastening said tube to the walls, as it now seems, is to make the tube round with an annular shoulder or flange 7' formed in, one piece with and attached to the outer circumference of the round'tube at each end. This flange being flexible and of waterproof material may be doubled over and passed through the openings in the walls .when the bag is being made so that the underneath surface of the flange at each endwill lie down on the outside of each wall whereon it may be cemented or otherwise fastened into place so as to provide a watertight annular partition around the central opening and extending through the bag from wall to wall. This tube being also elastic and collapsible is ex-. tended when the bag is distended and collapsed when the bag is empty. The opening in the tube must coincide with the opening in the walls so that the tube when fastened to each wall willcprovidea watertight open When the bag is distended with water this form of construction causes a depression to be formed about the central opening. The size of the depression and the amount of the elevation surrounding it depends on the manner in which the seam is made,- that is the amount of the overlapping of the edges and the width of the seam at the outer edge of the bag. This depression enables the walls to remain in such a position as not to touch the wound or sore over which the central opening is placed and at the same time the hollow of such depression tends to conserve the heat and equalize the temperature employed over the tissues to be treated. At the same time such depression is only effecinto the filling inlet 5,:the bag is more or less distended in proportion to the amount of water poured into the bag and wall 1 tends to separate and pull away from wall 2 and the collapsible flexible and elastic.

tube 4, (to the ends of which walls 1 and 2 are fastened) permits such walls to separate from' each other for a distance governed by theamount of water poured into such bag, the length of the tube 4 connecting the two walls and the limit of the stretch in the rubber or other material composing said tube acting as an elastic annular partition, while the water is held in the bag by the usual screw stopper 6.

\Vhen the bag is empty of water, it is evident that the walls will collapse, come together and lie on each other and the central annular partition will also collapse thus permitting the bag to occupy less space and be packed in a flat box and also permit of the bag being made in the ordinary way ;and thus sold to the user at a very much lower price than those now 011 the market and thus allow it to be placed within the .reach of many more persons needing it than is the case today.

Such a bag can be not only used for hot water, cold water or ice'and applied to any portion of the body where wounds, sores, boils, inflammations, or lesions of the tis sues exist, so as to apply heat or cold to the surrounding tissues without any weight.

coming on the wound, sore, etc. but on account of the greater distensibility can be I used with comfort in place of the usual aircushions for invalids and for many other purposes not necessary here to specify.

I am aware that water bags having a central opening have been heretofore made fitIldllkGWlSG those which are of a permanent concavo-convex form due to their be- .ing made of the segments of spheres or with an outer wall more extensive than an inner wall and hence do not claim these features but do expressly hereby disavow and disclaim any intention to claim these tom walls, and a collapsible tube secured to said walls and extending through the body of the bag from one-of said apertures to the other, said walls being so formed that theywill be dished about each end of the tube when the walls'are distended.

2. A water bag comprising a body, including top and bottom walls of flexible water-proof material united at their margins and each having an aperture formed therein, each of said walls including a lapseam produced by cutting the wall. from the aperture therein to the margin and lapping one edgeover the other to a greater degree adjacent the margin than adjacent said aperture, and a collapsible tube secured to said walls and extending through the body of the bag. from one of said apertures to the other..

3. A water bag comprising a body formed by top and bottom walls of flexible water-proof material united at their mar-i gins ancleach having an aperture therein, and an elastic collapsible tube extending through said bodyand having its ends secured to the top and bottom walls about the apertures therein, saidtube acting to draw said walls toward each other when distended and permitting them to come together throughout their area when the bag is not distended.

' DELIA A. CLIMES.