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US 2021/0267783 A1Published application
Medical ambulatory aid
OwnerCurt Tuckerinventor
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Abstract
A medical ambulatory aid comprising, in combination, a waist belt harness, a thigh brace, a calf brace and a walking boot.
Claims2
A medical ambulatory aid, said medical ambulatory aid comprising in combination:
- (I) a waist belt harness;
- (II) a thigh brace;
- (III) a calf brace;
- (IV) a walking boot
- (V) a heel strap detachedly attached to said walking boot;
- (VI) a metal assembly supporting (I)-(V), said assembly
- comprising:
- a. a first metal bar detachedly attached to a side wall of said walking boot at a distal end of said first metal bar;
- b. surmounted on a near end of said first metal bar, a second metal bar having a distal end;
- c. surmounted on said distal end of said second metal bar, a calf U-channel having a distal end;
- d. said calf brace being attached to said near end of said calf U-channel;
- e. a third metal bar being attached to said near end of said second metal bar;
- f. a knee hinge surmounted on said near end of said third bar;
- g. a fourth metal bar surmounted on a near end of said knee hinge;
- h. a thigh U-channel surmounted on a near end of said fourth metal bar;
- i. A thigh brace mounted on said thigh U-channel;
- j. a fifth metal bar surmounted on a near end of said thigh U-channel;
- k. a hip hinge surmounted on a near end of said fifth metal bar;
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A waist belt harness attached to a near end of said hip hinge, said waist belt harness comprised of:
- (i) a waist belt that is configured to rest on a wearer's ilium bone, said waist belt harness having a belt release mechanism attached thereto, and,
- (ii) an under-leg strap that is configured to wrap around a wearer's gluteus maximus muscles and ischium bone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.