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US 6,186,967 B1Granted
Elevation support for a limb
OwnerFrank Messinainventor
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Abstract
An elevation support for elevating a human limb of a patient to a desired elevation, including a body having a longitudinal aperture therethrough and an insertion opening for receiving at least a portion of the limb, wherein the body is shaped and sized so as to permit concomitant rolling motion along a support surface when the patient exerts a rotational force on the body via the inserted limb while maintaining the limb at the desired elevation.
Claims15
A support for elevating a limb of a patient, comprising:
- a body having a centrally aligned, longitudinally oriented, elongated aperture extending therethrough;
- an insertion opening for permitting insertion of at least a portion of the limb into said aperture;
- said aperture comprising a gripping portion that is predeterminately sized and shaped so as to resiliently grip at least a portion of the inserted limb;
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- said body comprising a frustroconical front portion and a cylindrical back portion, a first radius measured at a first end of said front portion and a second radius measured at a second end of said front portion, said back portion having a cylinder radius substantially equal to said second radius, said body being so shaped and sized as to maintain the limb at a desired elevation and to permit concomitant rolling motion along a support surface when the patient exerts a rotational force on said body through rotation of the resiliently gripped portion of the limb.
2 more elements
A support for elevating a limb of a patient to a desired elevation, comprising:
- an inflatable insert having a longitudinally oriented, elongated aperture extending therethrough, said aperture comprising, when said insert is inflated, a gripping portion that is sized and shaped so as to resiliently grip at least a portion of an inserted limb of the patient;
- an inflatable shell having a longitudinally oriented, centrally aligned elongated bore extending therethrough for receiving said inflatable insert, said inflatable shell having a frustroconical first portion and a cylindrical second portion, said cylindrical portion having a cylinder radius equal to the greatest radius of said frustroconical portion, said shell being so sized and shaped when inflated as to maintain the inserted limb at a desired elevation and to permit concomitant rolling motion along a support surface when the patient exerts a rotational force on said shell through the resiliently gripped portion of the limb.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.