US730035A - Sectional corn-plaster. - Google Patents

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N o. 730,035; PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

W.'MAHLER. l SBGTIONAL- CORN BLASTER.

APPLIUATION FILED MAB. 1a, 1902. y

' %Eys UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MAHLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

sECTloNAL CoRN-PL-ASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,035, dated June 2, 1903.

Application led March 13, 1902.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern/:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MAHLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sectional Corn- Plaster, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved corn on bunion plaster which is simple and durable in construction and arrangedto permit its readyuse for shielding corns and bunions of various sizes and shapes without danger of exerting a pressure on any part of the corn orbunion, thus avoiding the excruciating pain so frequently caused by the application of the ordinary ring-shaped corn-plaster, which is liable to press on the edge of the corn or bunion and unduly crowd the same into the central aperture of the cornplaster.

'lhe invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A` practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a pant of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the sam e, and Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views showing the use of my improved corn-plaster.

rlhe corn or bunion plaster is preferably segmental in shape, as plainly indicated in Figs. l and 2; and it consists of a body made of soft fibrous material in sections A, secured to a bottom piece B, madeof an adhesive material, such as paper or the like, at the under side vto allow of fastening the corn-plaster to the iiesh of the foot orother part of the human body on which the corn-plaster is to be used.

As shown in Figs. l and 2, the body-sections Serial No. 98,012. l(No model.)

A are arranged in pairs of different length, and

the sections are located one alongside the other on the bottom piece B and the latter can be readily torn or cut along the joint of adjacent sections to allow of separating thc sections, so that they can be fastened independently one of the other in position on the foot around the corn or bunion, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus two, three, or'more sections may be grouped around the corn or bunion and secured in position on the flesh by the adhesive bottom piece without in the least touching the corn or bunion, and as the sections are located independent one of the other and can be placed nearer to or farther from the edge of the corn or bunion it is evident that no matter what size or shape thecorn or bunion may be the sections do not encroach on it and the corn or bunion is relieved of all pressure of theshoe and the corn-plaster, and conse-V quently all desired relief is afforded.

By having the sections of different sizes the user can readily select whichever is needed to accomplish the desired result.

Having thus described my invention, l

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A corn-plaster, comprising a plurality of independent segmental-shaped sections of varying lengths, and a segmental strip upon which the sections are secured in pairs, end to end in juxtaposition, saidstrip having an adhesive substance on its under face and adapted to be severed between the ends of the sections to permit the sections to be independently applied to the foot around the corn, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM MAHLER.

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