Tube sock-shaped covering
AssigneeThe Ohio Willow Wood Company
InventorBruce Kania
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Abstract
A tube-sock shaped polymeric covering for wearing over an amputation stump. The covering has an open end for receiving the amputation stump and a closed end opposite the open end. The covering includes a docking means for attachment of an external device to the covering. The covering may also include one or more areas of reinforcing material that can be present in the form of a strip or rod, for example. The reinforcing material is comprised of a material that is less stretchable than the polymeric material forming the covering, and acts to reduce stretching and/or movement of the covering
Claims62
A tube-shaped covering for enclosing an amputation stump, said covering comprising a polymeric material capable of forming an air tight seal with the limb of a wearer when said covering is donned, and including a docking means for attachment of an external device to said covering, said covering configured to have an open end for introduction of said stump and a closed end opposite said open end.
A tube-shaped covering for enclosing an amputation stump, said covering comprising a block copolymer material capable of forming an air tight seal with the limb of a wearer when said covering is donned, and including a docking means for attachment of an external device to said covering, said covering configured to have an open end for introduction of said stump and a closed end opposite said open end.
A tube-shaped covering according to claim 44, wherein said reinforcing material is substantially non-stretchable.
A tube-shaped covering for enclosing an amputation stump, said covering comprising a polymeric material capable of forming an air tight seal with the limb of a wearer when said covering is donned and configured to have an open end for introduction of said stump and a closed end opposite said open end, said covering including a docking means for attachment of an external device to said covering and one or more longitudinally extending reinforcing strips of a material that is less stretchable than said polymeric material, said reinforcing strips for reducing stretching and movement of said covering.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.