DK200400055U3 - Assistive products for use in dressing / dressing and any. by wounds on the legs - Google Patents

Description

DK 2004 00055 U3

designation:

Assistive device for use on / off clothing as well as ability. In case of sores on the legs.

The invention relates to: paint

The invention is; an aid for undressing and dressing another person or for assisting another person's wounds to the legs.

The invention is that (the auxiliary) supports, the one who needs to have auxiliary legs, so there may be a piece (10-15 cm.) Of unsupported legs, which can therefore get clothes on.

Background, definitions: __

There are many situations where it is appropriate or necessary to help assist a person. By removing or applying the clothing that is taken off "from below." That is, over the feet / foot to the - The reason for the assistance assistance is often that a person cannot handle his or her clothing situation. This may be because the person is generally weakened, Other causes may be temporary or permanent, impaired or limited, mental or motor ability, which may be caused by illness, congenital or disability, so people do not belong to a certain age group, eg of any gender.

Afipå - Dressing a person according to the above is often done in hospitals, nursing homes and other comparable institutions where people are permanently or temporarily staying and who may be run under public and / or private auspices. Likewise, assisted attire of a relevant kind often happens in people's homes. Furthermore, many other places also take place in clothing, for example in connection with the pursuit of occupational and / or leisure activities. Such places are, for example, in swimming facilities.

Prior art: _

Having outlined above the environment in which the auxiliary has relevant use, the prior art is now described.

What happens in most places today is - when the person who needed help has been in, for example, Shower, which may have happened sitting on a bath stool / chair or WC, with / or without the help of an assistant, the person and father are dried on clothes upper body. The legs are dried DK 2004 00055 U3 towel is placed under the now dry feet. Within reach are the underpants that are given by first lifting leg 1 then leg 2, now come the long pants while giving the lifted leg 1 the first leg of the leg is held firmly with the knees in the second leg of the leg (which is wet on the floor !) so as not to get the pants into the water, socks and shoes on leg 1 are often given now, then leg 2 is lifted and the process repeated, (more relaxed and a little more upright - since nothing is held with the knees.

Some find something that can be legged, but the known "stools" are clumsy and often not even hand or can withstand wet spaces, and it is almost impossible to get a stool so small that it can still stick a piece legs forward, outside the stool.

Now the person needs to stand / hang (people used to lift) and the bag can now be dried (with a new towel, the other is put on) the pants must be in place with the other clothes and the person can get out of the bathroom. But if a regular stool was used, it should be moved first to make room for the feet. This takes time and when you sit half naked in a bathroom, you don't have to wait too long, it's cold.

Disadvantages of the Prior Art:

A suitable aid is not known,

The random solutions, which are lacking in this way, lead to disadvantages, among which can be mentioned:

Damage to furniture

Uncertainty, fatigue, stress, work-related back injury of the helper, due to undefined patterns of action and heavy lifting and many lifts with bent / twisted spine, Increased consumption of clean clothes as this becomes wet and useless before re-washing / drying, Increased time consumption due to establishment and use of the random solution, Eq. Really unnecessary repetition of the thesis pattern (if the helper loses trouser legs no.2 while no.l is given - new dry trousers) or the involvement of more than one helper.

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Objects of the Invention:

The object of the invention is: to provide an aid that can assist the helper in the dressing of a person. One who can hold / support the legs / legs while the helper gives pants / shoes on / off or - possibly holds the legs during wound treatment.

The special thing that is achieved: In relation to the known situation in the field, the invention / aid provides advantages in the form of a well-defined work and use situation during the helper's assistance, so that the person gets a well-defined and less stressed work situation, which results in fewer and less distorted. / awkward loads on the spine. Also advantageous is the increased productivity that the helper does not (in the case of lost clothes) have to put on his pants again. Many of the dressing situations can be done alone. The consumption of the laundry will also be saved.

Means used to achieve the special effect:

The aid / invention includes a stabilizing support for each of the person's lower legs, with the extension of the support in the direction of the leg at the area where the leg is supported, at most approx. 80% of the corresponding lower leg length. The aid / invention further includes an integral or removable spacer member under the support, and the support has a mutual position so that the supporting, protruding lower lower legs are held relatively close to one another (pants elastic can only be stretched a certain distance). The aid / invention also has moving means which allow the support to be removed when not loaded, but stuck when loaded.

Function:

Now, from the "state of the art", the person must have clothing on the lower body, with the aid of the invention:

The person sits and has clothes on his upper body. Now the aid / invention is advanced (it has, for example, been under the sink) The helper now has the opportunity to almost symmetrically, with quite jerky and bent knees, dry leg 1 leak it on one holder of the aid / invention and now leg 2 dried and placed in the other holder. The towel is hung up, underpants are pulled up on the leg that is now free (#) and accessible without having to lift. Socks and long pants are also given on this piece of leg, the loose leg can now be placed over the other leg for use. Shoes are given on. The helper can now, still symmetrically standing, grasp all the trousers as well as the legs, lifting slightly affect the means of movement. Now the floor is free and the person can get up to stand / hang (people using lift) and the seam can now be dried, the pants in place with the other clothes and the person can get out of the bathroom.

# The support, for the person's legs, is designed so that there is a distance between each other and by supporting under the leg, usually on the legs a little distance from the knees, a "hook" consisting of under legs and foot appears.

The person feels more comfortable in the better controlled on / off clothing situation and the helper is further saved for many heavy lifting with bent and / or twisted spine and thereby achieved a better working situation. At the person in bed, the aid has just another (sliding) means.

Advantage:

Using the aid / invention reduces the risk of back problems for the caregiver as well as family assisting with on / off clothing.

Many heavy lifts are gone Increased consumption of clothing that gets into the water is gone

The time spent on establishing the random solutions is gone

People who need help can now sit with slightly stretched legs on a stable surface

Possibly. Damage to the random furniture is gone.

Other Embodiments:

As the invention, with its general characteristics, as set forth in the attached collar 1, is described in great detail, the other embodiments, as will be apparent from the independent collars, will be described only briefly in terms of means and effect. In general, the practical design of the DK 2004 00055 U3 embodiments in question is exclusively composed of known technical solutions, so that any embodiment can be easily realized by the professionals in the relevant technical fields under any creative effort from the information provided.

It is advantageous to be able to accommodate different person-dependent or seat-provided seat height, which is why the aid may preferably be designed so that the support can be adjusted in height, steplessly or stepwise.

It is an advantage that the helper can use the remedy when assisting people with different leg lengths and that these persons can alternately benefit from the same aid. Why the aid according to the invention can preferably be designed with adjustable supports.

It is an advantage that the helper can use the remedy when assisting people of generally different sizes, including those with pronounced outward-or inward-inclined lower legs, (e.g. spastic-clamped) and that these persons may also have enjoyed the remedy. Where this can preferably be formed with separate supports by means so that one or both supports can be adjusted in the transverse direction and / or adjusted to the angular position essentially about a vertical axis, so that the support follows the direction of the lower leg and so that the freely protruding lower legs and feet kept at an appropriate distance from each other on / on clothing.

It is an advantage that the invention / aid in unsupported (= unstressed) condition can be easily moved relative to the substrate so that the movement requires little effort from the helper, which means that the aid can preferably be designed with sliding plate / knobs adapted to the substrate - ball rolls and / or wheels with fixed, adjustable or spontaneous directional adjustment, or equivalent means in appropriate number.

Especially in unloaded condition, only rolling / sliding supports against the floor / floor is an advantage that the aid is loaded by the person in the supported (= loaded) condition to by having support with floor / substrate friction, preferably in the longitudinal direction of the person's legs, so that the aid is stable under the helper's assistance when off / on clothing at freely protruding lower legs / feet, which means that the aid can be designed with means to create friction against the floor / underlay. An example of such a type is adapted to resilient suspension of the supports used in the unloaded state, together with suitable abutment areas that become associated when the load aid is pressed down over the resilient supports (a troubled physical and mental person) DK 2004 00055 U3

In the case of a normal person, the aid will be affected by a vertical downward force of about 200 N at load; the current load is, of course, very dependent on the person concerned, but rarely exceeds 400 N; In a relatively light embodiment, the auxiliary due to its own weight affects the substrate with a vertical downward force of the order of 20 N, so that means within this section can be used resilient ball rolls commercially available as pre-assembled units also available in stainless steel / moisture resistant materials. Sliding shoes / knobs of, for example, hard plastic (e.g. HDPE), whose sliding friction with the substrate does not greatly exceed rolling friction, is equated with, for example, ball rollers and can be mounted in an analogous manner in a lump of relatively soft and elastic resilient rubber / plastic material with frictional properties against the substrate, which comes into operation when the auxiliary is pressed down over the sliding knobs by load. A thin metal sheet can be slipped on, when lying down. Also wheeled wheels with strong frictional coating and fixed setting for guiding the aid in transverse direction during movement can be used without further measures as the aforementioned means, since the friction coating in connection with the axle's direction relative to the direction of the person's legs, provide the necessary frictional force for stabilization. the remedy, while the helper assists in, for example, undressing. The means referred to herein may also be performed by one or more activatable brake / stop pads or the like

It is an advantage that the aid according to the invention is foldable / foldable or separable into two or more composite main components, so that the aid can be easily and quickly made operable from a condition where it does not place such great demands on the volume where it can be found. , when it is not used for off / on clothing or when, for example, it is transported to another person in the person's home somewhere else, in relation to the aid which cannot be separated or folded / folded. The auxiliary means is therefore preferably formed with means which enable folding / folding or separation. A collapsible structure which may be formed as a light frame of tubes or profiles, and on the other hand spacer element (s) and support (s), an overall shape, so that these shapes, in transverse direction, appear essentially as two triangular structures. over each other with coincident peaks. If a transverse axis is located near the coincident triangular points, such a structure can be folded together, for example by rotating the upper triangle downwards, to accommodate only approx. the half height as the same aid in use, without the aid of the auxiliary vertical surface of the cylinder having to be increased thereby - ie without having, for example, a transport box internally longer or wider. Furthermore, the collapsed aid may have a design having the transverse structure in the collapsed state, placed near the substrate in the direction of a person's DK 2004 00055 U3 feet (in the corresponding posted condition of use). In this way, the collapsed aid can be stored on the floor immediately at the place of use, as the aid can be placed under a normally extended toilet bowl and "clamp" it to the sides of the floor and thus not take up additional floor space.

The pivotal structure described in the previous section can also be used with appropriate disposition of locking brackets or by analog means for the previously described up or downward angle adjustment of supports. For example, a locking bracket can be made at two plate parts which rotate about the transverse axis relative to each other, in that a long hole after a circular stroke about the axis of rotation of one plate part can be held in place at its edge by a, for example, abutment finger screw, which through the long hole is tightened against the underlying plate part. For this type of adjustment as well as for other settings of distances and angles, the adjustment devices can be provided with appropriate scales, so that a specific setting for e.g. A given person can easily be made in advance following a pre-established data set.

A shared embodiment may also be justified by the desire to use various materials appropriately, e.g. plastic and / or painted iron, et. On the supports for the person's comfort, since both metals and plastics in massive construction have such a great filling / conductivity that such are often experienced cold by direct skin contact.

A shared embodiment can also be carried out in that a lower main component is constituted by a kind of light, slidable, low ladder with one or more steps, in an unloaded state, resting on leather suspended wheels or the like. like, which is pressed into the structure under load so that the often cone-shaped ladder structure thereby increases friction to the substrate. A low ladder of this type is often popularly called "elephant foot." An upper principal aid component according to the invention in this embodiment may consist of a plate on which spacers and supports are capable of utilizing the lower principal component in other situations, so that the aid thereby generally achieving greater utility value.

In a particular type of shared embodiment according to the invention, the upper main component comprises spacer element (s) as well as support (s), which may be provided. all can be adjustable. However, a non-adjustable design could - in other embodiments - be relatively inexpensively carried out as, for example, a thermoformed plastic shell that can be sterilizable, which is often desired in hospitals, in addition to having recycling properties and / or any. even be recycled. A degree of customization for a given person can be achieved by selecting, on order, producing such a major component within the given range of variants. In this particular type of shared DK 2004 00055 U3 embodiment, the associated lower part of the hospital bed or equivalent, in which the person is preferably lying on his back, constitutes when the auxiliary (s) are to carry on / on clothing assistance. Now, even in particularly difficult assistance situations, the helper can often avoid lifting the person's legs many times with a bent and twisted back. Now one to three small lifts and the person is wearing pants.

Finally, a particular embodiment of the auxiliary device / invention consists in the fact that it is built on a permanent / temporary after assembly of elements, preferably designed as mounting modules, on an existing fixed or mobile structure. For example, on a bath chair, a support can be retrofitted that can otherwise be adjusted. In addition, with an assist completely comparable to the previously described dressing situation, the helper, when he has lifted the person's legs with both hands in a symmetrical lift, for example with a slight push or push with a forefoot against a release device, can bring the supports under the bath chair or out to the side.

This application includes, in addition to the description attached to the claims, several photos of the prototype.

List of Figures: _

The drawing shows an example from one embodiment of the auxiliary / invention to on / off clothing. The example shown is by no means to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention set forth in the claims. The example shown is selected for the purpose of further elucidating the invention. Photos attached.

Description of the prototype: In the U-shaped "bowls" the legs are laid, the distance in between the "bowls" is to work freely, the distance is not violently large, this is due to elastic in the underpants has a limited extension, "the stick of the bowls" are of course height adjustable as the height must be adjusted to what the person is looking at. (ordinary toilet or chair / stool or bed / chair and so on) Here is the h-model for mounting, which is on this model wheels with brakes.

Based on the examples of embodiments of greater or lesser detail of the invention / aid mentioned in this description, a person skilled in the art will easily be able to carry out a suitable aid according to the invention for use according to the invention in the situation within the solution space defined by the following requirements: DK 2004 00055 U3

In addition to the invention, the helper used by on / off clothing.

It is envisaged to fabricate a bedding model to be able to slip, as well as be able to pupil a small piece, depending on how much one can. Hip patient can lift in the pelvis. This model mostly for the hip patient is spared too many lifts.

Also assemble a type that is similar to the picture, but can be merged, so that it is all transport, if possible. the home helpers or if they are going on vacation.

GB 2004 00055 U3 REQUIREMENTS, 1- 1. The invention / device for applying clothing or wound treatment to leg / foot. Used by at least one assistant assisting / dressing a person in which the person's legs are assisted with the remedy during the final stage of dressing, or during the starting phase of dressing, garments carried over one or two feet and legs. Or where assistance is provided by, for example, tibia wounds or cleansing by a Hoffmann Apparatus.

Characterized by: the aid includes a stabilizing support for each of the person's lower legs.

That the auxiliary includes at least one integral or removable spacer member under the support / r, so that each supported leg / foot may be spaced above the nearest structure below, thereby making the lower leg and foot stand out for a hook,

That the supports, if several, have a mutual position so that the supporting, protruding lower legs with spacing are held relatively close together,

That the aid has moving means.

2. The means according to claim 1, characterized in that the moving means includes wheels, low friction sliders or the like, which can be placed in spring-biased suspensions, resilient elastic masses with frictional properties or the like. (wheel with good braking performance) 3. The auxiliary device / invention according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized by adjusting the spacing in transverse direction of supports, including by adjusting each support individually and / or adjusting in approximately the longitudinal direction of the supports. supported lower legs, including each of the supports individually, and / or adjusting the apex or spread of the supports relative to each other and relative to approximately vertical axis of rotation, including when rotating each support relative to an approximately horizontal axis of rotation, including rotation of each support individually relative to its own axis, with directions relating to the aid in use and natural (axes) combined directions for adjustment, including the aid according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the aid is made foldable or foldable .

DK 2004 00055 U3 5. The device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized by; the aid is divided into a number of suitably shaped main components which can be easily separated and placed in desired relation to each other in the mode of use of the aid.

The aid according to one or more of the preceding claims,

Characterized by; that the auxiliary lower main components in it consist of a so-called "Elephant foot" or essential parts.

The aid according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized by ;; the one main component of the device has supports and / or spacer element (s) of the device being supplemented with an apparatus with raising - lowering - option under the person's legs as the other main component, for example is a hospital bed.

The aid according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized by ;; preferably, the auxiliary means is constituted as assembly-ready modules and of a party or mobile structure on which the element (s) / modules are permanently or temporarily mounted.

The aid according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized by ;; the aid includes a material based on metal, plastic mineral or bio-material, or any combination thereof.

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