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US4934357:
Jaw support bandage
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Frantzich, William P.; Wayzata, MN 55391
Frantzich, Saundra L.; Wayzata, MN 55391
Frantzich, Paul E.; Wayzata, MN 55391
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None
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| Published / Filed: |
1990-06-19
/ 1988-07-18
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| Application Number: |
US1988000220179
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| IPC Code: |
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A61F 13/12;
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IPC-7:
A61F 13/12;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
602/061;
Original:
128/164;
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| Field of Search: |
128/76 R,76 B,380,399,857,869,DIG. 15,848,162-164,402,403
272/119,94,95
433/005
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| Priority Number: |
| 1988-07-18 |
US1988000220179 |
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| Abstract: |
A jaw support bandage includes a jaw support body comprised of a jaw and chin engaging portion and cheek and temporal engaging portions. First and second pairs of mating straps extend from the jaw support body, and each strap is provided with a quick release type fastener on its outer end for attachment to its associated mating strap. When the jaw support bandage is applied to the head of a patient, the mating interconnected straps are spaced from each other a predetermined distance to prevent slippage of the bandage from the patient's head. In one embodiment of the invention, the mating interconnected straps extend over the coronal portion of the patient's head. In another embodiment of the invention, one mating pair of straps extends over the coronal portion of the patient's head and the other mating pair of straps extends around the forehead and rear portion of the patient's head.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Apley, Richard J.; Crosby, D. F.
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| Claim |
WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A flexible single-piece jaw support bandage formed from a single rectangular piece of flexible elastic material for providing support to the jaw of a patient after oral surgery or the like, comprising:
- an imperforate jaw support body having front and rear longitudinal edges and including a jaw and chin engaging portion having width and length dimensions of a magnitude for use in engaging, supporting, and covering the lower surface of the jaw, a portion of the chin, and the front portion of the neck of a patient, said jaw support portion including a pair of cheek and temporal engaging portions integral with said jaw and chin engaging portions and having width and length dimensions of a magnitude for use in engaging and covering the cheeks and temporal areas of a patient, said jaw support body having inner and outer surfaces, the inner surface of said jaw support body adapted for being positioned directly against the neck, chin, cheeks and temporal areas of a patient, and
- first and second pairs of straps integral with the cheek and temporal engaging portions and said jaw support body and extending therefrom, each strap of a mating pair being of a length for use in extending over the coronal portion of the patient's head to overlap the end portion of the associated mating strap, said straps having the same length dimension and having substantially uniform width dimensions, one strap of each pair having a front longitudinal edge extending coextensively with the front longitudinal edge of said jaw support body, the other strap of each pair having a rear longitudinal edge extended coextensively with the rear longitudinal edge of the jaw support body, and cooperating ready attachable and releasable fastening means on the end portions of mating straps to permit the end portions of a mating pair of straps to be readily secured together and to be readily detached from each other, the interconnected straps of one mating pair being spaced apart from the interconnected straps of the other mating pair, said spacing between said interconnected mating pairs of straps being within the range of approximately 178 inch to 8 inches to prevent slippage of the jaw support bandage from the patient's head, and
- a pocket defining an elongate, rectangular-shaped, imperforate flexible panel having longitudinal and end edges, the longitudinal edges of said panel being secured to the longitudinal edges of the jaw support body throughout a major portion of the length dimension of the latter, the end edges of said panel being located adjacent the temporal engaging portions of said jaw support body, and said panel cooperating with said jaw support body to define an elongate pocket having opposite ends thereof open and facing upwardly when the bandage is applied to a patient's head for accommodating cooling packs and the like.
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