US238481A - Truss - Google Patents

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S. M. BAYARD. Truss.

No. 238,481. Patented March 8,1881.

A V/MMW llNrrEn STATES STEPHEN M. BAYARD,

ATENT FFICE.

OF IONIA, MICHIGAN.

TRUSS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,481, dated March 8, 1881. Application filed February 27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN M. BAYARD, of Ionia, Ionia county, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Hernial Truss, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved instrument for the relief and cure of hernia.

The object of my invention is to provide a better means of supporting and holding the defective parts in their proper place until a cure can be effected; and it consists in a certain definite construction pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the entire instrument. Fig. 2 is a back view, showing the interlacing of the small springs. Fig. 3 shows he pad in section. Fig. 4 shows the pad as attached to the girdle.

To enable those acquainted with the art to make and use my invention, I will describe it in detail, as shown in the drawings.

A A represent a belt or girdle passing entirely around the body and overlapping in front from one inguinal region to the other, and on the back, at O 0, some five or six inches. It is made in two halves, of high-tempered brass wire, of any number suitable to produce the strength of spring force required. These wires are laid side by side to the number sufficient to make the width desired, and each alternate wire out five or six inches longer at each end an the ones next to it. They are then soldered together with ahard tin solder the whole length of the shorter wires. The two halves are made alike, except that it is usually desirable to make one half narrower than the other, in order that the pressure of one pad may be lighter than the other. They are then bent into the proper form between suitable rollers. After being nickel-plated the two halves are locked together in front,at B B, by interlacing alternately the wire spring extension on the ends of each half with those of the other by passing them from the outside of the belt inward and fastening them by the pads being attached to their free ends E E on the inside of the belt. The small spring-wire extensions of the other ends are then interlaced alternately and locked togetheron the back side in the same manner as those on the front, except that they are passed from the inside of the belt outward, and fastened by means of cross-ties D D, soldered across their free ends on the outside of the belt.

The pads I use (but do not claim) are made of any suitable material-fine light wood or hard rubber is preferred. The pressing-surfaces of the pads are made to accurately fit theinguinal region, and they are provided with a concave extension, F F, forward and upward, by which they are made more easy to wear and to support the abdominal walls. The pads remain immovably fixed in their places, and hold the spring-girdle down without perineal straps.

In this truss the pressure is directly in line ofthehernial protrusion. The abdomen is supported on the opposite side by the lighter pad and spring not allowing the bowels to recede from the hernial pad under great strain, as in lifting or jumping, and requiring less pressure. It is easy to wear, because less pressure is required, and because the springs open and close on the back, giving free motion to the body. The springs yield to every motion, while the pads stay in their places. It is durable, because the materials of which it is made cannot corrode or break; and it is cleanly, because the excretions of the body cannot collect upon or penetrate into it. It is simple of construction and beautiful in appearance.

This truss is put on by sliding it out to its fullest extent on both sides and putting it on over the feet. When the pads are adjusted it closes up on the back to the body of its own force; but if, in case of extreme obesity, it should not close sufficiently tight, a small elastic web may be attached by means of loops on the belt on each side to facilitate such action also, in cases of infancy or extreme old age, to facilitate the adjusting and retaining the pads in their places, a small non-elastic web may be attached across the front in like manner, it desired. Neither of the webs areshown in drawings.

It will be readily seen by persons acquainted with the treatment and cure ofhernia, that when suitable pressure is made in the line of the hernial protrusion upon a pad the pressing-surface of which is exactly fitted to the parts of the inguinal region, where pressure is necessary to close the external and internal rings and inguinal canal, it is impossible for a hernia to escape. To such persons the utility of myimprovements is obvious.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 5 Patent, is-

In trusses, aspring-girdleniadein two parts, of wireslaid side by side and soldered together each alternate wire being longer than those beside it, to provide for the interlacing of the ends of both parts, the ends of the springs be- 10 ing joined at the back by cross-pieces and attached to the pads in front, substantially as described.

STEPHEN M. BAYARD. Witnesses HARRISON MILLER, JAMES BENNETT.

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