US302073A - wheeler - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

. S. WHEELER.

MEDICATED PAPER FOR SURGICAL 011 TOILET USE.

No. 302,073.. I Patented July 15, 14. I

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. I

. S. WHEELER.

MEDIGATED PAPER FOR SURGICAL 0R TOILET USE.

o. 302,073. Patented July 15, 1884.

, UNiTE S ATES SETH WHEELER, 0F ALB N NEW YORK.

" ATE ()FFEEP? MEDIYC'ATED' PAPER Foe sun'eleA'L oR Tonia-r use.

SPEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.-: 302,073, d'ated July 15, 1884.

Application filed March 2a, 1884. (Np specimens.)

To all whom, it may coricern:

Be it known that I, SETH WHEELER, of Albany, in the State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Medicated Paper for Surgical or Toilet Use, of which the following is a specification.

Strong paper treated in its finished condition with remedial disinfectants or antiseptic agents is of great value insurgical practice, answering the purpose of oiled silk and more expensive dressings. Ithas for such use the advantage of cheapness, thus admitting at a small cost of change of bandage at every; dressing.

Heretofore in the manufacture of medi-.

cated paper, so called, by theadmixture of drugs or remedial agents to'the pulp while in the heating-engines, there is an apparent -ilnpossibility of using anything that will not unite with water. Consequently many of the most valued remedial agents cannot housed, and of those that may be used, only the cheapest are available, on account of theiexceSsive amount of water with which the pulp is diluted preparatory to passing to the forming machinery,

where, in connection with the driers, all water and moisture is removed,carrying with it near- 1y, if not all,of anyingredients that may have been added with a view to medicating the paper. Only a trace'of anything combined can be discovered by chemical analysis. 1N0 attempt has heretofore been madeto medicate' the finished sheet, probably because of the seeming. impossibility of so doing, as the slightest wetting of the thin paper causes it to contract, and in drying it wrinkles, and'c'onsequently loses its smooth surface. Bytreating the manufactured sheet with-an agent of an nnctuous or oily nature-such asvaseline, glycerine, paraffine, or any ofthe animal or vegetable oils-we have a vehicle in which to place and to transfer upon the finished sheets the agents most valued by the medical profession for their soothing antiseptic and disinfectant properties.

My invention therefore consists'in amedicated paper, such paper carrying anunctuons or oily substance as a vehicle for the remedial dlsinfectant or antiseptic agent. The manner of preparing this paper from the finished sheet will be claimed in another application, 'alsothe machinery therewith employed. To prethe means and in a a are the end standards, in which are j ournaled thefollowing elements, namely: b, the drying-cylinder; c, the receiving-roll over which the paper to be treated runs on its passage to the periphery of the drying-cylinder;

d, a cylindrical medicating-brush; e, a cylin-- 'drical distributingrbrush; f, another distributin g and which acts also as a polishing brush. 9 is the delivery-roll. h is the winding-shaft,

onto which the medicated paper isjdelivered.

i is .the medicine-trough, extending from the one standard to" the otherunderne'ath the bear: ings of the medieati'ng-brush d. j 'isa trough- 'roll having bearings intcrmediatebetween the medicating-brnsh d and trough i. k is a steam pipe passing through the trough i for warm ing the medicine. l is a steam-inlet pipe to ad-mitsteamto interior of the drying-cylinder, such pipe passing through one of the hollow journals of the revolving cylinder. at .is an outlet-pipe for the condensed steam,also pass-- ing through the hollow .j'ourr al of the cylinder at the other end of the machine. a is a belt for driving the brushsd and e,-it passing over pulleyson the ends of the shafts of brushes d, .e, and f. o is a belt which'serves to drive the winding-shaft h, such belt passing over the main driving-pulley and pulley-wheel h, on-

shaft h. p is a belt for driving the distribut ing and polishing brush f, it passing over pulleyson the ends of shafts of the roll g and brush-f. q is a belt for driving-the trough-roll j, itpassing over pulleys on the ends of the shafts of the trough roll j and the drying-cylinder b. r rare thestandards for the bearings of the winding-shaft h, and such standards have their hearings on the shaft of the main drivingpulley; s is. the main driving-pulley. i t is a swinging arm pivoted on one of the end standards and carrying a friction-roller, t, which serves as. a tightening-pulley to the drivingbelt a; v I j Motion is communicated'by means of the belt shafl: of the latter to the winding-shaft h.

passing over the driving-pulley s from the The winding-shaft h acts as adriver to the apparatus; first driving delivery-roll g by frictional 5 contact,which r011 g, through the belts p and n, drivesthebrushes'f c d. The drying-cylin- The web of paper to be treated with the medieating preparation enters by passing onto the periphery of the drying-cylinder over the receiving-roll c. It receives i mmediatel y the medicating preparation from the brush d, which brush is supplied from the trough i by the take-up roll j,which roll rotatespartly within the trough for such purpose. The paper then passes to the distributing or equalizing brush e to have the preparation more evenly distributedi It then passes to brush f, which serves to polish and finish the paper so treated. I The paper,still being kept in close contact with-the heated cylinder, passes onto the delivery-r011 g, overwhich roll it passes, and is received onto the winding-shaft h, and then rewound into aweb. More brushes maybe added to the machine,

or the brush c or the brush f may be omitted in the operation, this depending altogether upon the degree of finish it is desired to give the paper so treated.

I claim- Paper treated with combined agents composed of an unctuous or oily substance and a remedial disinfectant or antiseptic agent, the former serving as a vehicle to properly retain the latter in the paper during the process of introducing the latter.

SETH WHEELER.

Witnesses:

WM. DIAMOND, E. J. WHEELER.

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