Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Head or face protector
Patent
1992-01-16
1993-02-02
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Head or face protector
604308, 602 74, 2 15, A61F 900
Patent
active
051830590
ABSTRACT:
An improved eye shield retention system holds a generally ovate eye cover in position across the bony orbital rim of a user's eye. The eye shield comprises a plastic shell adapted to function as an eye shield or as a backup member for an eyelid compress. The retention system has a first strap segment that attaches to the lower end of the eye shield and joins with a second strap segment behind the user's head. The second strap segment attaches to the upper end of the eye shield and is bifurcated into an upper and lower strap segment adapted to encircle a user's head either in an adjacent and parallel relationship or to be laterally separated to cause the two strap segments to oppose one another against the curvature of the user's skull. In the latter condition the strap segments prevent the eye shield retention system from slipping into a less than snug fit over the skull in which the eye cover could become dislodged. The invention further includes various modifications of this retention system such as both the first and second strap segments being bifurcated or such as the strap retention system comprising a continuous strap with one segment bifurcated and the other being a solid piece.
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Hafer Robert A.
Kenealy David J.
Roethel John Edward
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