US550493A

US550493A - Truss

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Publication number: US550493A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-11-26
Anticipated expiration: 1912-11-26

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No. 550,495. Patented Nov. 25, 1595.

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JOSEPH FANDREY, OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Lettersl Patent No. 550,493, dated November` 26, 1895. Application flled May 25, 1895. Serial No. 550,623. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FANDREY, of Santa Barbara, county of Santa Barbara, State of California, have invented a new and Improved Truss, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved truss for the support and reduction of hernia, and has for its objects to provide a novel simple device of the indicated character, which will be specially well adapted for the support and eventual cure of abdominal ruptures, which will be easy to wear, and that from its construction will not shift from position over the rupture.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvement secured singly on a truss-band. Fig. 2 is a front view of the pad-supporting portion and single pad shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the modified form of the improved truss-pad on the line G 6 in Fig. 2.

There are forms of rupture where the eX- travasation of the entrail is small and globular when not reduced, the edge of the rupture tending to constrict the protrusion. In such cases the form of the truss-pad should not only adapt its bearing-surface to press the edges of the ruptured abdominal wall toward each other, but there should be provision made to hold the eXtravasated portion of the entrail pressed inwardly, or the hernia will be aggravated. y

To successfully treat hernia of t-he class last mentioned, the form of truss-pad shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, is provided. A single pad is shown in the drawings of the truss; but it is evident that in case two pads are required the one shown may be duplicated, and where it is only necessary to provide a single pad of the shape previously described the truss-band may be adapted for the support of a single pad of that style.

The truss-pad represented in Figs. 1 to 3 is composed of a base-block 14, the periphery of which is preferably kidney-shaped and rounded to remove its lower corner, and the transverse indentation of the block in its surface that is to be padded is deepened near the transverse center of the block, so as to produce a cup-like depression at said point. A preferably leather envelope 19 is` drawn loosely over the outer face of the block, and a padding 16 is introduced, the edge of the envelope being then affixed to the side of the block which has contact with the pad-carrier piece 12.

The padding material is not placed in the bottom of the cupped depression of the block 14, as this is to be occupied by a supplenfentary pad of a semiglobular form, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The small pad is formed of a base-block 17, an envelope 18, and lling material 19, which when assembled provide a rotund pad that projects fromv the cushioned and rounded edges of the larger pad when these parts are secured together by one or more screws, as shown in Fig. 3.

The truss is furnished with a band 10 and a single keeper-strap 11, these parts being connected as usual and clearly represented in Fig. 1, and the pad may also be supported by a carrier-piece 12.

It will be seen that if the truss having a transverselydndented surface for its main pad and a protuberant rounded supplementary pad thereon is applied for the reduction of small constricting hernia of the abdomen',

the supplementary pad will rst have contact with the protruding membrane, forcing it within the edge of the rupture, and when the shallow indented main pad comes in contact with the abdomen around and near the rupture the edges of the hernia are forced together, which completes the occlusion of the ruptured parts.

It is claimed for the improvements hereinbefore described that the most severe cases of single or double hernia may be successfully treated by their employment, and the eventual cure of the ruptured parts will result if the patient is in a favorable condition otherwise and the truss is properly applied and worn a sufficient length of time.

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Having thus deseribed my invention, I bloek 17 secured to the base block 14a', a eavelaiin as new and desire to secure by Letters ering or envelope 18 and the1 filling 19, sub- 1o Patentstantially as described.

In a truss, the pad carrier, the pad coin- 5 prsing the indented block 14 having a COV- JOSEPH FANDREY.

ering 15 and marginal filling or stuffing 1G, a Titnessesz slnztll rounding pad mounted in the indenta- JOSEPH J. PERKINS, tion of the rst pad and comprising;` a base C. M. GIDNEY.