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US 4,793,328 AGranted
Method of producing pressure for a multi-chambered sleeve
AssigneeThe Kendall Company
InventorsMark Kolstedt, John F. Dye
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Abstract
A method of compressing a multi-chambered sleeve which is normally wrapped about a patient's arm, comprising pressurizing an accumulator from within the accumulator, opening a manifold arrangement in said accumulator in a timed manner to direct pressurized air to proper chambers in a multi-chamber sleeve.
Claims12
A method of pressurizing a multi-chambered sleeve which is wrapped about a patient's limb, the method comprising the steps of:
- pressurizing an accumulator housing with fluid;
- providing a port assembly in said housing having an inlet arranged in communication with a conduit arrangement for pressurizing said multi-chambered sleeve;
- sequentially opening and closing said port assembly inlet arrangement;
- sequentially ducting pressurized fluid through said port assembly to said conduit arrangement for communications with said sleeve to pressurize the chambers of said sleeve.
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A method of pressurizing a multi-chambered pressurizable sleeve which is wrappable about a patient's limb, comprising the steps of:
- pressurizing an accumulator housing with fluid under pressure by means within said housing;
- sequentially discharging portions of that fluid under pressure through a conduit means to said chambers of said multi-chambered sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.