Protective cast device
OwnerJhoon G. Rheeinventor
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Abstract
This invention relates to protective cast devices for various parts of the body. The protective cast device of the present invention comprises a thin relatively rigid bendable lightweight closed cell member on which straps are fixed to form and hold the device about a body part. Once the device is bent and secured in one direction, it resists bending in any other direction. The member has a relatively more dense outer skin and a relatively less dense and more soft inner surface.
Claims7
A protective cast device adaptably to be worn around a part of a person's body, said device having a sheet-like planar contoured shape adapted to conform generally, substantially in the form of a cylinder, to the shape of the body part when said device is worn and secured around said body part, said device comprising a lightweight, thin, relatively stiff non-memory plastic foam material member which tends to resist bending, which tends to retain its bent shape after being bent and which, when curved in one direction, resists curving in any other direction and fastening means connected to the plastic foam member for maintaining the member curved in one direction around a body part whereby the member resists bending in any other direction.
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