DE7931482U1 - Support element for medical storage purposes - Google Patents

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Lück, Werner, In der Wiese 3 _{ί (} 429o Bocholt

"Support element for medical storage purposes"

The innovation relates to a support element with a filling made from a mixture of soft, flexible foam bodies and solid foam beads.

The prior art includes a filling pad in which synthetic foam beads, preferably in a textile fabric inlay Polystyrene beads with an average size of 3 mm are arranged. In the literature reference describing this filling pad is primarily described as, cushion made of pearl foam, with such cushion especially in rheumatism, intervertebral disc damage, Hemorrhoids and the like are to be used. However, the reference also contains the note that the pearl foam forming the filling also with synthetic foam flakes or crease-resistant fibers can be mixed and that by adapting the composition of the material to be mixed great variation in the properties of the padding can be achieved, namely properties such as softness, Elasticity, heat retention, slip resistance, etc. can be varied.

In practice, such filling cushions have not been used.

found, but such cushions or pillows are in particular

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has not been used in the medical field, apparently the mixture of foam flakes and fibers and foam beads did not give the desired properties. This is explainable since the pearls only last for a short time stick to the torn outer edges of the flakes, but then loosen and collect / so that a segregation of the filler entered / who made the cushion unusable.

The upholstered furniture industry has for a short period of time as well Cushions made from flakes mixed with pearls. The pearls should have the well-known clumping and Prevent the flakes from being crushed. However, after a certain time there was a separation between flakes and Pearls, so that clumping could not be prevented. The flake grinds through the destroyed pores and becomes partial to abrasion and thereby reduces the filling power / whereby a reduction in the filling volume occurs. This also makes the Mobility and thus the malleability and also the air circulation deteriorates.

Maintaining all of these essential characteristics of one However, good pillows or support elements are just in the medical field Storage area requirement.

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Mail has recognized these drawbacks, and especially for the sentence suggested on medical ßebieii / support body so to train / that the shell bead all around to ff receiving shell is only partially filled with these SchäUmstöffperleri / whereby only foam pots are used as filling material come * The hygroscopic properties of such foam beads are particularly advantageous for medical purposes * They guarantee «pswisse ventilation * You wear the static conditions of the patient's position or a certain part of the body, but allow movements of the patient or the part of the body in question. Close Such foam beads do not form a breeding ground for borrowed Bacteria and do not clump together. Such pillows have therefore been in use for a long time *

A disadvantage of these pillows is that they are relatively hard and thus with prolonged use, especially when elderly patients or very sensitive, e.g. paralyzed patients, can cause skin irritation ^;

i When choosing the size of the beads making up the filling, | one endeavors on the one hand to keep the pearl size as low as possible 1 in order to thereby create pressure points through individual paragraphs above Avoid foam beads. But the smaller the pearls are. I.

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to æœ c / erin ^ he "is the Ventilätiänsmögiichkeit deö support element" ^ so that mäh is forced · hieif a middle to besChreiteh, but which ^one causes for longer bedridden patients PerierigrÖße * although ensuring some ventilation to Pressing leads.

Those forming the filling of the pillow or support element Pearls are made of a solid foam. This leads to, that when the patient moves, a sound is produced by the aria * other rubbing of the pearls occurs, which is especially true with postoperative Positioning is perceived as disturbing, especially when the patient is not alone.

The innovation is based on the task of adding a support element create that is sufficiently modelable but at the same time soft, that not only has a certain ventilation, but also a has good ventilation through uninterrupted air circulation, which does not cause pressure irritation and which during movement rustling of the patient is avoided, the advantageous properties of the previously known pillows, namely that a clumping of the filling is avoided, should be retained. The support element can be pillow-like, mattress) like or in some other way, i.e. for example be specially adapted in shape to the task at hand.

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The the innovation üUgründeliegende gave up Witfd achieved by a supporting element / the form features düröh Käntstäböhen aiö foam bodies ^ all of whose side surfaces sectional areas and their Läncfe fivefold mm of its maximum width of Io does not exceed _t where ca * 5o VoI *% Känt- ^ rods and Approx. 5% by volume of pearls form the preferred mixing ratio and the total volume of the cushion or support element is approx. 7 ° - 80% *

Square sticks are known as a support body in pillows * In surprisingly However, it has been found that by mixing these square rods with the foam beads known per se, a filler material can be achieved that can be modeled and is at the same time soft and that supports without irritating the patient's skin. The combination of square bars, e.g. from polyether sticks and synthetic foam'-off pearls, e.g. polystyrene beads, ensures that the rods can easily slide past each other and past the beads. It there are no torn pores on the surface of the edging rod, i.e. no resistance surfaces or resistance corners, where sticks or pearls can jam. So there is a constant flowing liischvörgang * which, because the sticks are relatively short, also due to the length of the sticks is not hindered.

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Öüiföh this neüer ~ üngsgemäße Miäöhung is bär'i eiiie filling the riiöht klufflpt and i being äüßeföifdentlich weiöh mödelliar-bear virtually made by the Poiyätherstäbdheri only as Lüftzeilen; the distance is increased between the individual beads, this effect as well as the LüftzeÜen the Poiyätherstäbchen provide for a good ventilation, without that the ünterstützüngseigenschaften of the pad and of the supporting element are deteriorated *

The mixture of polyether sticks and polystyrene beads prevents it also the previously annoying rustling. Through the admixture the polyether stick to the existing polystyrene beads Ultimately, a more elastic and thus more snuggly support or support of the respective body part is achieved, and more gently than with the state-of-the-art technology Storage pillow is possible.

The models attached to this property right show the mixture of the foam bodies, i.e. the mixture of Square rods and beads, and from the attached models is't. recognizable that the new shape of the room creates a new kind of support element is created, which in its effect the previously known support elements, pillows, mattresses ü. like. Considerably is superior.

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PATENT Attorney · ·· '' · ' ^: ' · * · '' [»esTFACH Mi? - D.4400 MÜNSTER 06 1 1 1 £> DIPL INC HC HAB'ßEL "'''"·'"'at the cannon furnace 11. phone ₍₀ * _s " «9 * Ul r L- · - "! IN ^ -y · Γ1 ·" ** J, n / VX>X> L · L · TELEX 892.S97 baged NEAKTEi X / Sc ME (NEAKTEi (please specify) L4 1/7531 Lück, Werner, In der Wiese 3, 429o Bocholt "Support element for medical storage purposes" Claim to protection Support element with a filling made of a mixture of soft, flexible foam bodies and solid foam beads, characterized by square bars as foam bodies, all of the side surfaces of which form cut surfaces and whose length does not exceed five times their maximum width of 10 mm, with approx. Square bars and approx. 5o vol.% Pearls form the preferred mixing ratio and the total filling volume of the pillow is approx. 7o - 80% * MIl • * * I I 11 * 11 I I