Appendage and limb protective wrapping
OwnerJennifer DiGraziainventor
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Abstract
A wound/bandage protector configured as a wrap, a sock/mitten, or a bandage may be made out of stretchable material. The wrap may have one or more fastening straps as well as possibly a first catch fastening surface. The sock/mitten may have a fastening strap and a sheath. The wrap, the sock/mitten, and the bandages may have apertures and aperture covers. In addition, the wound/bandage protectors as well as the bandages may have diamond or triangular gauze configurations with the gauze pad having three or four primary corners, the primary corners of the gauze pad in most instances being oriented towards edges of the body portion or length or width tangents of the body portion, preferably mid-points or mid-sections of the length or width tangents or body portion edges.
Claims20
A wrapping, comprising:
- a body portion configured as a wrap having a first end, a second end, an internal side, and an external side;
- a fastening portion disposed at the second end of the body portion on the internal side of the body portion,
- wherein the fastening portion extends around a portion of the external side of the body portion and fastens to the external side of the body portion upon the fastening portion being wrapped around a body part in a wrapping direction of the wrapping, which corresponds to a lengthwise direction of the wrapping, and fastened,
- wherein a location on the external side of the body portion at which the fastening portion fastens to the external side of the body portion is between the first end and the second end of the body portion;
- and
- a non-slip material disposed on the internal side of the body portion,
- wherein the non-slip material is adapted to contact the body part upon the fastening portion being wrapped around the body part and fastened,
- wherein the non-slip material is not an adhesive, and the non-slip material does not create friction with the body part independently of the fastening portion being wrapped around the body part and fastened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.