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US 2006/0151550 A1Published application
Apparatus and device for respectively slipping on and removing from a limb a tubular compression orthosis
OwnerJoel Chevalierinventor
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An apparatus facilitates slipping on a limb, a tubular compression orthosis, such as a compressive stocking made of elastic material, or the like. The apparatus includes a support arm (6), an stretching clamp (1) including a tubular body (7) mounted longitudinally sliding, on the support arm (6) and two opposite jaws (8, 9) with substantially parallel stretching plates (12, 15), whereon can be slipped a tubular orthosis in retracted inactive state, and a mechanism (2) for controlling the opening of the stretching clamp (1) to exert a thrust to gradually move the second jaw (9) away from the first jaw (8) up to an extreme position corresponding to the maximum stretched position of the orthosis, said stretching being maintained by self-wedging. Also described is a device for removing a tubular compression orthosis or the like.
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Device for removing socks, stockings, tights or the like, such as compressive orthoses called support stockings or socks, made in a knitted elastic fabric material which are prescribed to patients for treating circulatory pathologies, characterized in that it consists of a sleeve (101) comprising a rod (102) provided at its first end with a handle (103) and at its second end with a curved spatula (104) in the shape of a lunar crescent, with a decreasing transverse section from its tip (105) to its heel (106), said rod (102) being made integral with the spatula (104) near its heel (106), and in that the spatula (104) has an upper face (107) convex from its tip (105) to the rod (102) and overall planar from the rod (102) to the heel (106) and a concave lower face (108) in order to generate excessive thickness (e) between the lower (108) and upper (107) surfaces of the spatula (104) in front of the rod (102) thereby forming an embossment (109) on the upper face (107) of the spatula (104) so that the tip (105) of the spatula (104) being introduced between the sock and the calf of a patient, said sock is removed from the foot by a downward vertical movement combined with a pronation or supination movement of the spatula (104).
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