Precut adhesive body support articles and support system
OwnerRay Arbesman, Kevin Jardineinventors
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Abstract
The invention provides an adhesive support article for supporting a body part of a user. A single-sided stretchable adhesive tape blank is precut into a sheet having a central anchoring portion and a plurality of outwardly extending fingers. The sheet is marked with visual indicators to guide the user of the support article for applying the central anchoring portion onto a first exterior surface of the body part and for stretching the fingers before adhering them at a predetermined distance away from the central anchoring portion. The adhesive support article can also be provided in a support system with at least one corresponding body landmark article, providing further guidance for applying the support article to the desired body part.
Claims29
An adhesive support article for supporting a body part of a user, comprising:
- a single-sided stretchable adhesive tape blank precut into a sheet having a central anchoring portion and a plurality of fingers extending outwardly from the central anchoring portion;
- the sheet being marked with visual indicators to guide the user of the support article for:
- applying the central anchoring portion onto a first exterior surface of the body part;
- and
- stretching the fingers a predetermined distance away from the central anchoring portion according to the marked indicators and adhesively applying the fingers to a second exterior surface of the body part spaced away from the first exterior surface to support the body part by tethering the first and second exterior surfaces together.
An adhesive support system, comprising:
- an adhesive support article for supporting a body part of a user, comprising:
- a single-sided stretchable adhesive tape blank precut into a sheet having a central anchoring portion and a plurality of fingers extending outwardly from the central anchoring portion;
- the sheet being marked with visual indicators to guide the user of the support article for:
- applying the central anchoring portion onto a first exterior surface of the body part;
- and
- stretching the fingers a predetermined distance away from the central anchoring portion according to the marked indicators and adhesively applying the fingers to a second exterior surface of the body part spaced away from the first exterior surface to support the body part by tethering the first and second exterior surfaces together;
- and
- at least one adhesive body landmark article for adhering to an identifiable body landmark of the user to aid in gauging how far to stretch the fingers of the support article to adhere the fingers to the second exterior surface according to the marked indicators.
An adhesive support article for supporting a body part of a user, comprising:
- a single-sided stretchable adhesive tape blank precut into a sheet having:
- a central anchoring portion;
- a plurality of fingers extending outwardly from the central anchoring portion;
- at least one T-shaped body landmark projection extending outwardly from the central anchoring portion beyond the fingers, the body landmark projection having a pair of laterally extending wing members;
- the sheet being marked on the fingers and the at least one body landmark projection with visual indicators to guide the user of the support article for:
- applying the central anchoring portion onto a first exterior surface of the body part;
- applying the at least one body landmark projection onto a second exterior surface of the body part;
- and
- stretching the fingers away from the central anchoring portion to meet the wing members of the body landmark projection before adhesively applying the fingers, to thereby support the body part by tethering the first and second exterior surfaces together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.