Prosthesis (i.e. – artificial body members) – parts thereof – or ai – Arm or component and actuator or connector therefor – With article or article holder
Patent
1998-04-20
2000-10-03
Willse, David H.
Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or ai
Arm or component and actuator or connector therefor
With article or article holder
43 212, A61F 254
Patent
active
061266965
ABSTRACT:
A fishing rod apparatus for use as an upper extremity prosthesis attachment. An upper extremity prosthesis receives the assembled components of the fishing rod apparatus, which comprises an operational extension of the upper extremity prosthesis. An adjustable wrist unit insertably engages an upper extremity prosthesis, and receives a modified handle member having a handle end and a reel seat end. The handle end has a threaded stud which engages the wrist unit. The reel seat end has a bore which receives a conventional rod blank by means of an extension adapted to fit the bore. The rod blank may be secured to the modified handle member by epoxy, or it may have means for releasably attaching to the modified handle member. Once the rod blank is secured in place, a conventional reel is mounted on the reel seat end of the modified handle member. The fishing rod apparatus of the present invention is most advantageously used by a fisherman who has lost only one arm. In use the rod is attached to the prosthesis, the fisherman's good arm being used to help guide the cast and manipulate the reel by grasping the modified handle member.
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Litman Richard C.
Willse David H.
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