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Identifier: treatiseonartif00mark (find matches)
Title: A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: (Marks, George Edwin), 1853-1932. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Artificial limbs
Publisher: New York city, A. A. Marks
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on the end ofspindles rotated at high speed by power, and these are moved aboutagainst the interior of the leg until it is finished. Coarse and finewheels are used. The operation is shown in Cut No. 1200, in whichalso is seen a workman facing off the end of the leg to receive the foot. The foot is made upon a wooden core which extends down below theinstep. The lower portion of the foot and the extension to the toes aremade of sponge rubber, fortified with several layers of canvas embeddedin the mass. The foot is rigidly secured to the ankle end of the lowerlimb by a sort of mortising. Sometimes the section of a log is turnedout on a shaping machine from a template or duplicate, and one of thecuts, No. 1199, shows this machine in operation. The leg is covered with rawhide tightly stretched over the outside of A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL L1MI1S, NEW YORK CITY. 365 the wood; the foot is covered with calfskin cemented on the uppersurface and lapping over the sole. A sole is cemented on and is
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No. 1200.—Finishing Interior of Leg and Facing off Ankle End.No. 1201.—Carving Leg Sections by Hand. sewed all around the edge to the upper covering. The foot and leg arenow enameled and dried in an oven. This leaves them waterproof 366 A. A. MAEKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. for all ordinary purposes. These operations, one of which is shown inCut No. 1203, are termed finishing. But for special cases, where water is to be feared, a log is selectedwhose natural grain follows the curve of a leg and foot. From such apiece the entire lower leg and wooden core of a foot is made all in onepiece, and the rubber portion of the foot is attached directly thereto.This makes an absolutely waterproof leg, which is adapted to thosewhose occupations expose them to wetting. The knee joints are made in several ways, whose details cannot well

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  • booksubject:Artificial_limbs
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  • bookleafnumber:364
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