. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... placed over the handle, and the pivotpin passed through one fork of the clevis through the hole in thehandle and screwed into the other fork. This will hold the tool in anaccommodating way and permit it to swivel. Illustration is one-half size. Price, each, $3. Cut No. No. 1091 represents pinchers calculated to be used in the endof a forearm. The jaws can be opened and closed by means of a stringconnected with the shoulder. When the arm is extended, the con-tracting cord will act on the handle of the pinchers and cause the jawsto
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... placed over the handle, and the pivotpin passed through one fork of the clevis through the hole in thehandle and screwed into the other fork. This will hold the tool in anaccommodating way and permit it to swivel. Illustration is one-half size. Price, each, $3. Cut No. No. 1091 represents pinchers calculated to be used in the endof a forearm. The jaws can be opened and closed by means of a stringconnected with the shoulder. When the arm is extended, the con-tracting cord will act on the handle of the pinchers and cause the jawsto open. When the arm is bent the force on the contracting cord isreleased, the spring under the pinchers handles acts, and the jaws areforced to close and hold whatever may be placed between them. Illus-tration is one-half size. Price, each, $8. Cut No. 1092 represents a combination pinchers and hook. Price,each, $9. UTILITY. The services capable of being performed by artificial arms, especiallywhen applied to forearm stumps, are almost limitless. Ambition and. No. 1093. practice extend the scope of usefulness. We have a young lady patron,an amanuensis, who uses her rubber hand for holding and guiding a 284 A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. pen while writing. She has acquired the ability of writing quickly andlegibly, and wields the pen with more dexterity than many writers whohave natural hands. Cut No. 1093 represents this young lady at her desk. We have a customer who wears one of our artificial arms. He is
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