US449436A - Fracture apparatus - Google Patents

Description

Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

(No Model.)

-B. H. DAGGETT.

FRAGTURE APPARATUS.

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Witnesses UN TED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

BYRON I-I. DAGGETT, OF BUFFALO, NEN YORR.

FRACTU RE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,436, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed September 8, 1890. Serial No.364,391, (No model.)

To add whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BYRON II. DAGGETT, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Leg-Support for Supporting Patients During Examination and Operation; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms afull, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to legsupports for the use of physicians and surgeons in making examinations and operations upon patients; and it consists essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully,

' Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved support, parts being shown in section in line y 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a detached view of a portion of the leg-splint and support therefor, drawn on an increased scale; and Fig. at is an end view of the same.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

The object of this invention is the production of an efficient and serviceable support for the leg of a patient during examination and operation and treatment of such patient where the leg of such patient has to be supported in an elevated position-as, for instance, in lithotomic treatment, the.

To attain this result I construct the supporting device essentially of a base A of suitable contour and having its transverse sides provided with blocks B, within which are located angular apertures 0 near their ends for the reception of a standard D, l1aving an angular tenon D fitting said apertures O, in a manner hereinafter to be referred to.

The standard D has near its upper end a bend D", and it terminates in a socket E, having a set-screwF acting upon aclamping-bar f to retain the rod G, passing through said socket in any position without marring said rod. This rod G has on its upper end a lug g and an inclined projection H, to which lug is pivoted by means of the thumb-screw J a curved supporting-plate I. This plate has centrally a downwardly-projecting lug I, bearing upon the lug g on the rod G and connecting therewith by the thumb screw J, already referred to, there being on said lug 1 two projections c' i, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, which projections form, in conjunction with the inclined sides h h of the projection II, stops to limit the movement of the curved plate. To the curved plate I there is affixed the curved or trough-shaped carrier or legsplint K, consisting of a preferably leather, papier-mach, or wood-pulp (indurate fiber) structure, having in its center nearvthe edge slotted apertures l:, and on its ends further apertures into which are secured straps L M, respectively, the former to embrace the patients leg and the latter to extend to his body, so that the patient may be securely held in any position into which he may be placed, there being buckles Z in, respectively, on said straps to render adjustment a convenient matter.

It will now be readily observed that the rod G, carrying the leg-splint K, is vertically adj ustable as well as capable of being revolved within its socket E, thereby affording ready means for placing the leg-splint into any position into which it may be desired to place the same, while also, owing to the introduction of the angular tenon D, fitting the angular apertures C in the base, said standard may be placed into four diiferent positions. It will now be further observed that the joint connection between the head of the rod G and said carrier K is such that said carrier or leg-splint may be placed into an inclined position, which is limited by one of the lugs 11 7; coming in contact with one of the inclined sides h h, it being borne in mind that usually such an inclined position will be required, and that the stops 2' t" sustain the weight of the patients leg and release the thumbscrew J from any strain that might otherwise be brought to bear upon the same and that might cause slipping or motion in the joint which in a critical moment might be very disastrous. It will be further noticed that on account of the introduction of this portable support there is no necessity for an assistant or assistants to the surgeon or physician making an examination or operation or treatment of a patient, who have heretofore been always required to support the patient, and which assistance is very tiresome and tedious.

The device described is portable, so that a physician or surgeon can easily carry the same With him when visiting his patient. It is also comparatively cheap.

It is evident that this device with its accessories may be used independently of the base upon any physicians or surgeons operating and examination table by providing in such table the necessary sockets C for the reception of the tenon D.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The portable support hereinbefore described, consisting; of the base A, having aperture C, the standard D, having tenon D and socket E, with set-screw F, the rod G, having lug g andinclined projection H, and the leg-splint having the lug I, provided with projecting lugs, said lug I being pivoted to the head of the rod G, as and for the object set forth.

2. In a leg-splint support, the combination, with a suitable base and standard, of the carrier pivot-ed to the rod G, supported by said standard, and provided With'stops to limit the movement of said carrier, said leg-splint having the straps, as and for the object stated.

3. In a leg-splint support, the combination, with the rod G, having the lug g and inclines h 7t, of the curved plate I, having the lug I, provided with the projections '21 i, as set forth, and the connecting-bolt .I, as and for the purpose mentioned.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BYRON II. DAGGET".

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK, WM. 0. STARK.

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