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US3877426:
Muscular support
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Nirschl, Robert P.; Arlington, VA 22207
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1975-04-15
/ 1973-03-27
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| Application Number: |
US1973000345370
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61F 13/10;
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IPC-7:
A61F 13/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
602/062;
128/DIG.015;
473/212;
Original:
128/165;
128/DIG.15;
273/189.R;
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| Field of Search: |
128/165,169,87,78,DIG. 15
273/189 A,189 R
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| Priority Number: |
| 1973-03-27 |
US1973000345370 |
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| Abstract: |
A support for bracing the musculo-tendinous units in the upper and lower extremities of humans especially for the prevention of "tennis elbow." A flexible, arcuately shaped pad especially adapted to be tightly wrapped about a muscle without slippage is constructed of a two layer laminate of cloth and foam rubber. The pad is easily tightened by means of a velcro fastener strip insertable through a fastening ring and reversedly drawn for attachment to itself.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Schuyler, Birch, Swindler, McKie & Beckett ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Gaudet, Richard A.; Yasko, J.
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| INPADOC Legal Status: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A support device capable of being wrapped about and surrounding the muscle of a bodily limb or member without extensive overlap and capable of applying circumferential pressure to a wide area of said muscle to thereby relieve internal tension on the muscle, comprising:
- a substantially curvilinear, arcuately shaped pad having a length greater than its width and shaped to approximate the frustrum of a cone when wrapped about the muscle of said limb or member, said pad being flexible in all directions and comprising a laminate having an inner layer of resilient foamed material bonded to an outer layer of a substantially inelastic flexible sheet, and
- a fastening means for securing said support device tightly about said muscle, comprising, in combination, at least one velcro fastener strip attached to the upper surface of said outer layer at one end of said pad and at the other end of said pad at least one ring attached to the upper surface of said outer layer, said velcro fastener strip having a loop section and a hook section, one of said sections of said velcro strip partially overlapping said pad and the other of said sections constituting a free end, whereby said pad can be fastened around the extremity by threading said free end of said strip through said ring and reversedly drawing said free end for attachment to said overlapping section.
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