US2460100A - Adjustable truss - Google Patents

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Jan. 25, 1949. F. G. MCCORD 2,460,100

ADJUSTABLE TRUS S Filed Dec. 2, 1946 m MMM@ ATTE! RN EYB Patented Jan. 25, 1949 UNl-TEosrA'rEs PATENT orties ADJUSTABLE vrRUss Frank G. McCord, Atlanta, Ga. Application December 2, 1946, Serial No. 713,399

(Cl. 12S-95) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in trusses for hernia or, as it is commonly known, rupture, and has for one of its objects the provision of an adjustable truss that can be set to exert pressure in the locality on the wearers body providing the most comfort and relief.

Other adjustable trusses have been placed in use but none has the simple operation of the truss designed in accordance with the invention. The trusses now in use fory double ruptures consist of two steels or two bands passing around both sides of the body to carry the front pads, of which there are usually two in number on the front of the body.

An important object of this invention, therefore, is to provide a truss using only a single steel, passing around one side of the body only, to support two pads on the front of the body for a double rupture. The use of a single steel for a single pad is well known in this art, but it is believed that the use of a single steel to support two pads at the front of the body for a double rupture is an advance over the use of a single steel for the single rupture type of truss.

With the above and other objects and advan tages in view, the invention consists of the novel details of construction, arrangement and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational plan View of a double truss embodying the invention, with the pads shown indotted lines;

Figure 2 is an elevational front View of a pad partly broken away, showing the means for attaching the pad to truss wire frame in dotted lines;

Figure 3 is an elevational plan view of a double type truss in place on the human body;

Figure 4 is the same of a single type truss;

Figure 5 is a detail showing a side elevational view of one end of the truss on an enlarged scale, and with parts broken away, illustrating the means for attaching pads to the truss.

Figure 6 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a vertical view on the line 1-1 of Figure 6, showing the sleeve in position to provide one arc of movement of the pad attaching means;

Figure 8 is the other arc of movement of the means; and

Figure 9 is a perspective view of the sleeve for controlling the swing of the pad.

same as Figure '7showing anpad attaching Referring more in detail to the drawing, the reference numeral I0 designates the substantially U-shaped truss wire which, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, is provided with a covering II of rubber or other suitable material.

One end of the wire is threaded at I2 to receive the pad I3 which rests on the back of the wearers body, and the other end is threaded at I4 for a greater distance than at I2, to receive the pads I5 and I5 which rest on the front of the wearers body.

Each pad is provided with plates I6 and I1 respectively which are joined at their inner central longitudinal edges by the internally threaded boss I8, and each plate has extended projections I9 at its outermost ends to more firmly seat the plates in the pad after fasteners for securing the pads to the plates have passed through the openings 20 in the plates.

The boss I8 of each pad is threaded onto its respective end of the wire Ill until the pad I3 rests comfortably on the wearers body, and the pads I5 and I5 are properly located as to the hernia of the wearer. To retain the pads in their position on the wire I0, there is provided for each pad the sleeve 2|, which is loosely mounted on the wire I0. The sleeves are provided with opposed tapered slots 22 at the end nearest the pads which receive the ends of the plates I6 and I1 therein, and a set screw 23 is provided in the sleeve 2 I, which retains the pad in adjusted longitudinal position, but permits the pad to swing in a small arc on the wire I0. By adjusting the sleeve, the arc can be controlled as shown in Figures 7 and 8.

In Figure 3, there is shown the double type of truss, as applied to the representation of the human body, as shown at 24, and in Figure 4, there is shown the single type of truss which merely eliminates the use of the foremost pad I5 in its use. Thus the truss can be used as a single or double type truss, as desired by the wearer thereof.

This particular type of truss eliminates the use of any strap or other devices to hold the pads in position on the wearers body, and will remain in place regardless of the movement of the wearers body, the pads swinging slightly on the wire to prevent the pads digging into the wearers body at each movement thereof.

It is believed that from the foregoing description, the operation and construction of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and it is also to be understood that changes in the minor details of construction, arrangepad, and means also threaded on each of said A n threaded ends of the wire and having a slot' therein to receive its complementary plate for limiting the rocking movement of the plate on the wire.

2. In a truss, the combination which comprises a substantially U-shaped truss wire having threaded ends, a plate having an internally threaded centrally-disposed boss integral there- 4 with and threaded on each of the ends of the wire for rocking movement thereon, and an internally threaded sleeve on each of the ends of the Wire having opposed tapered slots therein, said sleeves being threaded on the ends of said wire, and so positioned thereon that the slots receive the ends of the plates to limit the rocking movement of said plates.

F. G. MCCORD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

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