Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Bandage structure
Patent
1994-09-19
1996-07-02
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Bandage structure
602 58, 604304, A61F 1300
Patent
active
055316700
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a heat-conserving bandage to cover human or animal tissue.
The present bandage finds particular application for treating muscular damages, inflammation of joints, tendons and connective tissues and other related defects, and is in particular related to the conservation of natural heat from the body.
The bandage is intended to conserve local heat by reflection and with a minimum heat absorption by the bandage. The bandage avoids application of chemical or natural local heat irritants which are normally required to stimulate local heat production at the relevant area of the body to be treated. The bandage includes a combination of known materials, combined and assembled in a new manner and applied in an area of usages for which no such bandages have yet been available or known. Still, the present bandage satisfies long felt needs in its field of application.
The heat-conserving bandage to cover human or animal tissue comprises, according to the invention, heat reflecting means adjacent said tissue for reflecting heat from said tissue back to said tissue, insulation material means covering said heat reflecting means, and textile means covering said insulation material means.
Said heat reflecting means includes a sandwich structure of a first foil of plastics material adjacent said tissue, a second foil of aluminium covering said first foil and bonded thereto, and a glass fibre weave covering said second foil and bonded thereto.
The first foil of plastics material is preferably made of polyester.
The thickness of said heat reflecting means is preferably in the range of 0.3-0.8 millimeters, and more preferably of a thickness equal to 0.65 millimeters.
The said insulation material means has a closed cell structure. Suitably, the insulation material means is made from neoprene rubber or polyethylene. The insulation material means has preferably a thickness in the range between 2 and 16 millimeters.
Said textile means is suitably a cotton structured textile having a hydrophilic coat.
Velcro means are suitably attached to said textile means for locking the bandage about a portion of the human or animal body.
If preferred, a further textile means can be inserted between said tissue and said heat reflecting means.
Also, said heat reflecting means and said textile means are suitably sewed or bonded together along corresponding edges thereof. If present, the further textile means is also sewed or bonded to said heat reflecting means. Thus, the insulation material means is received in a pocket between the heating reflecting means and the rearmost textile means.
These and other embodiments of the present invention will appear from the attached patent claims and the description below with reference to the attached drawing figures showing non-limitative examples of the present invention.
FIG. 1a illustrates a cross section of the bandage according to the present invention.
FIG. 1b illustrates an enlarged part of heat reflecting means in FIG. 1a.
FIG. 2 illustrates the bandage wrapped about a bone structure covered by tissue.
FIG. 3 illustrates heat transport and reflection related to the present bandage.
FIG. 4 illustrates structural build-up of the bandages of FIGS. 1 and 3.
FIG. 5 illustrates the bandages shown in FIG. 2 in a perspective view without the bone and tissue shown.
FIG. 6 illustrates the use of bandage on a horse.
FIG. 7 illustrates the use of the inventive bandage on a dog.
FIG. 8 illustrates the use of the bandage on a human being.
In the drawings, the heat reflecting means is denoted by reference numeral 1 and is made up from a glass fibre weave 1c bonded to an aluminium foil 1b, which is covered by a foil 1a of plastics material, suitably a transparent polyester. The overall thickness of the heat reflecting means is suitably 0.3-0.8 millimeter, and most preferably 0.65 millimeter.
The insulation material 2 is of a closed cell type and suitably made from neoprene rubber of polyethylene rubber. The thickness of the insulation material 2 is suitably between 2 and 16 millimete
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Talbot David W.
Westby Reidar
Dobloug Anette
Rosenbaum C. Fred
Van Over Perry E.
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