US919406A - Surgeon's glove. - Google Patents

Description

H. W. WARREN.

SURGEONS GLOVE.

APPLIOATION IILED JULY 17,1908.

Patnted Apr. 27, 1909.

Witumeo SURGEONS GLOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 17, 1908.

, Y Patented April 27, 1909.

' Serial m3. 444,046.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLEY W. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cuyahoga Falls, in the county of Summit 3 sense of touch must be very cute so that and State of Ohio, have" invented certain, the operator can instantly and without misnew and useful Improvements in Surgeons take know by the sense of touch the various Gloves; and I do hereby declare that the i nerves and other parts of the body, upon followin isa full, clear, and exact descripwhich his fingers come in contact. tion of t e same, reference being had to the order to accomplish this result the ends of accompanying drawing, making a part of l the fingers of the glove or in other words a this specification, and to the numerals of portion of the fingers at their tip ends are reference marked thereon, in which-, formed smooth. The material from which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2i is an enlarged sectional view taken longitudinally through one of the fingers of the love. i

The present invention has relation to surgeons gloves designed more especially for use in surgical operations and it consists in the novel construction hereinafter described.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, 1 represents the body or hand portion of the glove and 2 represents the fingers and 3 the thumb, said parts just above mentioned so geons glove pebbled or roughened upon its far as their formation is concerned as to hand surface and its fingersprovided with the fitting of the" fingers and hand and i smooth surfaces, substantially as and for wrisare of the usual formation, except as g the purpose specified. to the outer or contact surface of the hand, 2. As an improved article of manufacture, thumb and finger portions of the glove :1 surgeons glove provided with roughened proper. hand and thumb surfaces and smooth une It is well understood that in the handling roughened finger surfaces, substantially as of surgeons instruments it is exceedingly and for the purpose s ecified. necessarythat takes place as In testimony that no slipping between the tool used and the hand of the have hereunto subscribed presence of two witnesses.

operator, and in order to prevent this HARLEY WARREN.

late the various instruments used in surgic al operations without danger to the patient. It is also well understood that the like material and hence the sense of touch is not interfered with to such an extent as it otherwise would be if the tip ends or por- .tions of the .fingers were roughened or pebbled. In the drawing I have illustrated the thumb of the glove roughened or pebbled throughout itsentire length, so that the thumb of the hand can be used if desired for gripping purposes in the ordinary man- I181. Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a surmy name 1n the slipping movement, the hand surface and portions of the finger surfaces together with the thumb are roughened'- or what is more 1v Witnesses: commonly termed pebbled, so that an oper- SYLVIA Boson, ator can with a glove covered ,hand manlpu- 'F. W. Bonn.

the glove is made is of quite thin rubber or claim the above, I

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