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 Title: |
US5228142:
Overwrap for fingers and hands and method for using it
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Yoswein-McGreen, Rebecca; Jersey City, NJ 07304
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1993-07-20
/ 1990-08-16
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| Application Number: |
US1990000568354
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A41D 19/00;
A61F 13/10;
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IPC-7:
A41D 19/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
002/169;
002/021;
002/159;
602/063;
Original:
002/169;
002/159;
002/021;
602/063;
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| Field of Search: |
002/161 R,163,169,165,21,20,159,161 R,163,21
066/174
604/290,292
602/079,63
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| Priority Number: |
| 1990-08-16 |
US1990000568354 |
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| Abstract: |
A glove-shaped overwrap of, e.g, cotton has finger portions which extend radially outwardly from a central hand portion. Ravel-stop means, e.g. baste stitches, encircle each of the finger portions adjacent the hand portion. A drawstring or other means permits the overwrap to be secured about the patient's wrist.
Where a patient's finger is to be bandaged or medicated, the other finger portions are severed from the hand portion. The finger is bandaged or medicated and the overwrap is then put on the bandaged or medicated hand so that the bandaged or medicated finger is covered by the unsevered finger portion of the overwrap. The drawstring is tied around the patient's wrist. The invention facilitates bandaging and medication of, e.g., infant fingers and hands, since infants tolerate the overwrap well and can neither remove the bandage from the finger nor eat or otherwise remove the medication from it.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Schroeder, Werner H.; Current, Sara M.
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A method of treating infant patients with hand conditions, comprising the following steps:
- procuring an overwrap comprising a glove-shaped element sized for an infant's hand and made of light, air-permeable material, the element having five finger portions extending outwardly from a central hand portion, ravel-stop means extending around each finger portion at its junction with the hand portion and means for securing the glove around the wrist of a patient;
- severing, at such a location as to leave the ravel-stop means attached to the hand portion, each finger portion which corresponds to a patient's finger from which bandages are to be absent;
- bandaging the patient's hand condition;
- pulling the overwrap over the patient's bandaged hand; and
- securing the overwrap around the patient's wrist.
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