Device for carrying out nail corrections
OwnerBernd Stolzinventor
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Abstract
A device for carrying out nail corrections, in particular in ingrown nails which are too severely curved, comprises at least one plastics material strip extending in a longitudinal direction. The plastics material strip is rubbery-elastic and longitudinally elastic. At each longitudinal end, it has a hook for engaging around and underneath the nail edge of the toenail to be corrected. The plastics material strip is expandable and, with the hook hooked in, can be adapted with respect to its length to a nail width of the nail to be corrected, so a restoring force due to elasticity brings about an upward force automatically adapted to a degree of curvature of the nail to be corrected.
Claims13
A device for carrying out nail corrections, comprising at least one plastics material strip (2;
- 7;
- 9;
- 13) extending in a longitudinal direction (5), wherein the plastics material strip (2;
- 7;
- 9;
- 13) is rubbery-elastic and longitudinally elastic and, at its two longitudinal ends (16), viewed in the longitudinal direction (5), has a respective hook (4;
- 14) to engage around and underneath a nail edge of the nail (12) to be corrected, the plastics material strip (2;
- 7;
- 9;
- 13) being expandable and, when the hook (4;
- 14) is hooked in, being adaptable with respect to its length to a nail width of the nail (12) to be corrected, so that a restoring force due to elasticity brings about an upward force automatically adapted to a degree of curvature of the nail (12) to be corrected, and wherein the hooks (4;
- 14) consist of a plastics material, which is harder and more dimensionally stable than the plastics material of the plastics material strip (2;
- 7;
- 9;
- 13).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.