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 Title: |
US4027666:
Semirigid counterforce brace
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Marx, Alvin J.; Bronx, NY 10471
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1977-06-07
/ 1975-09-26
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| Application Number: |
US1975000617144
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61F 13/10;
IPC-7:
A61F 13/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61F13/10T;
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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: |
128/165,169,78,87 R,157,327,DIG. 15
273/189 R,189 A
002/3 R,2,44,45,16
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| Priority Number: |
| 1975-09-26 |
US1975000617144 |
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| Abstract: |
An improved semirigid counterforce brace adapted for application on a user's forearm helps prevent and provides relief during tennis play of tendonitis of the conjoined tendon of the extensor communis and extensor carpi radialis brevis at the insertion into the lateral epicondyl, a condition commonly referred to as "tennis elbow". The brace includes a semirigid, perforated, fluid passing outer plastic backer and inner porous strap, e.g., of a fabric laminated with an open pore foamed urethane, and a strap attached to the brace and adapted to wrap around the subject's forearm, pass through a loop disposed near, but not at, one end of the outer surface of the backer sheet, and to be secured in place by cooperating fasteners, e.g., cooperating hook and eye [VELCRO (tm)] type fasteners.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Crowder, Clifford D.;
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| INPADOC Legal Status: |
None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A counterforce brace adapted for application over a subject's forearm entirely below the elbow comprising semirigid curved backer sheet means having a plurality of perspiration eliminating apertures therein, the width of said backer sheet means being less than its length in the forearm circumferential direction, said circumferential length being the greater part of a subject's forearm circumference, a porous perspiration passing inner strip disposed about the inner surface of said backer sheet means, slot means formed within said backer sheet means at one end thereof, strap means attached to said semirigid curved backer sheet at said slot means at said one end of said backer sheet means, loop means integrally formed within said semirigid backer sheet means about the outer surface thereof near the other end of said semirigid backer sheet means, said loop being adapted to receive the other end of said strap means, and brace securing means comprising mating first and second portions, said first portion of said brace securing means being affixed to the outer surface of said strap means about the end thereof remote from said slot means and the second portion of said brace securing means being secured to the outer surface of said semirigid backer sheet means.
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