Patent Application
20210378682
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The disclosure relates to tourniquet devices and more particularly pertains to a new tourniquet device for providing additional comfort for the wearer of the tourniquet. The pad has an increased surface area to provide for additional comfort to the person on which the tourniquet is applied.
The prior art relates to tourniquet devices having improved comfort attributes and which include, for example, inflatable bladders to improve comfort to the user.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pad which is comprised of a flexible material. The pad has a first side, a second side and a perimeter edge extending between the first and second sides. The perimeter edge includes a front edge, a rear edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The pad is elongated and has a longitudinal axis extending through the first and second lateral edges. A band is coupled to the second side of the pad. The band extends along the longitudinal axis. The band is comprised of a flexible material and is configured to wrap around a limb to secure the pad to a person's limb.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The first side 14 is completely comprised of the inner layer 30. The inner layer 30 is comprised of a cloth material. The cloth material may be comprised of natural and/or synthetic materials which may be woven, fibrous bunched, compressed, or formed by any other conventional methods of cloth manufacture. The inner layer 30 may be comprised of many individual layers of the cloth material. The second side 16 is completely comprised of the outer layer 32. The outer layer 32 may be comprised of an elastomeric material. Suitable elastomeric materials include synthetic rubber, neoprene, nitrile, and other conventionally available materials, and which may specifically include non-latex elastomeric materials. The inner layer 30 and the outer layer 32 are both comprised of a non-latex material. The pad 12 includes a first portion 34 including the first lateral edge 24, a second portion 36 including the second lateral edge 26 and a central portion 38 positioned between the first portion 34 and second portion 36.
A band 40 is coupled to the second side 16 of the pad 12. The band 40 extends along the longitudinal axis 28 and has a pair of free ends 42. The band 40 is comprised of a flexible material and is configured to wrap around a limb 44 to secure the pad 12 to a person's 46 limb 44. Suitable flexible materials include cloths, elastomeric materials, plastics, and other conventional materials capable of being wrapped around the limb 44. A sleeve 48 is attached to the second side 16 of the pad 12. The sleeve 48 is located on the central portion 38 of the pad 12. The band 40 extends through the sleeve 48 such that the band 40 is attached to the pad 12. A plurality of loops 50 is attached to the second side 16 of the pad 12 and is aligned with the sleeve 48 such that the band 40 extends between each of the loops 50 and the pad 12. Each of the first portion 34 and second portion 36 has at least one of the loops 50 attached thereto. The sleeve 48 and loops 50 are comprised of a non-latex material.
The first portion 34 and second portion 36 have a greater width from the front edge 20 to the rear edge 22 than a width of the central portion 38. The greater width of the first portion 34 and second portion 36 is between 1.50 inches and 4.00 inches. The width of the central portion 38 is between 1.00 inch and 2.50 inches. Each of the first portion 34 and second portion 36 has a same shape with respect to each other. The first portion 34 and second portion 36 each have a length between 2.50 inches and 6.00 inches. The central portion 38 has a length between 2.00 and 4.00 inches.
In use, the pad 12 is placed onto the limb 44 with the inner layer 30 in contact with the limb 44 and the front edge 20 orientated away from the person 46. The first lateral edge 24 and the second lateral edge 26 are wrapped around the limb 44. The free ends 42 of the strap 40 are wrapped along the outer layer 16 around the limb 44 and secured to each other to secure the pad 12 in place.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
