JP2017029100A - Animal foot lifter - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] When a dog or a cat walks by hanging their toes downward and rubbing their insteps against the ground or the like, an animal foot for improving the symptoms of hanging their toes and preventing the insteps from rubbing on the ground or the like. Provide lifting equipment. A prosthesis body comprising an upper belt (12) wound around and fixed to a heel (22) of an animal, a lower belt (13) wound around and fixed to a toe (21) of an animal, and a connecting belt (14) connecting the upper belt (12) and the lower belt (13). 11 is an animal toe lifting device 1 provided with a lifting belt 15 for connecting a base end 151, 151 to the instep side of the lower belt 13 and connecting a tip 152, 154 to the instep side of the foot of the upper belt 12. . [Selection diagram] FIG.

Description

  The present invention relates to an animal foot raising device for raising the toes of an animal walking with its toes hanging down due to illness or injury.

  Unlike humans, many terrestrial animals walk without bending their feet, while bending their feet (up from the base of their fingers) upward and grounding only the feet. Examples of such animals include dogs and cats kept as pets. Dogs and cats have hairless parts called paws on the belly of their fingers. The meat ball has elasticity and absorbs an impact upon landing of a foot, prevents heat from being transmitted from the ground or the like, and has a role of protecting the foot from unevenness of the ground or the like.

  In recent years, there are cases where shoes are put on feet for the purpose of dressing dogs and cats or protecting feet (Patent Document 1). The shoe disclosed in Patent Document 1 is based on the bottom side of the side instep with respect to the bottom surface consisting of a single piece that extends from the toes (toes) to the vicinity of the heel ("above the ankle" but seems to be an error). Is stretched to the vicinity of the heel, and a stretchable belt for fastening the vicinity of the heel is sewn on the front surface of the rising portion of the tongue-shaped lid piece. This is a worn configuration (Patent Document 1 [Claim 1]). The shoe disclosed in Patent Document 1 protects the foot by grounding the bottom surface to the ground or the like instead of the paws.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-088266

  Dogs and cats cannot bend their feet upward due to various causes such as illness or injury, and as a result of hanging their feet downward from the heel, that is, walking their backs against the ground etc. Sometimes. Of course, dogs and cats, when their illness or injury is cured, bend their feet up again and walk with their paws grounded as usual. However, until the illness or injury is cured, the instep of the foot is rubbed against the ground or the like, and there is a risk that the instep of the foot may be damaged to induce another illness or injury.

  When a dog or cat hangs down from the heel and walks while rubbing the back of the foot against the ground, etc., if the shoes disclosed in Patent Document 1 are worn, the risk of damaging the back of the foot rubbing against the ground or the like is reduced. It will be resolved. However, it is inevitable that a dog or cat walks with their toes hanging down and rubbing their insteps against the ground. Although dogs and cats wearing shoes do not rub their insteps directly against the ground or the like, they remain in a state where their toes are hung downward, so that there is a risk that the cause of the disease or injury will be exacerbated.

  In this way, the shoes worn by dogs and cats that have been seen in the past protect the back of the foot when walking while rubbing the back of the foot against the ground etc. However, the cause of illness or injury was not improved. Therefore, when a dog or cat hangs their toes downward and rubs their insteps against the ground, etc., the animal's toes improve the symptoms of dripping their feet and prevent the insteps from rubbing against the ground etc. The lifting equipment was examined.

  What has been developed as a result of the study is a brace body comprising an upper belt that is wrapped around and fixed to the animal's heel, a lower belt that is wound around and fixed to the animal's feet, and a connecting belt that connects the upper belt and the lower belt. An animal toe lifting device provided with a lifting belt for connecting a proximal end to the back side of one foot of the upper belt or the lower belt and connecting a distal end to the back side of the other foot of the upper belt or the lower belt. . The animal foot-lifting device of the present invention is attached to the foot of an animal that walks without touching the abdomen of the foot while grounding only the foot.

  The upper belt is wrapped around the animal's heel (around the heel) and fixed. For example, in the case of a dog or cat, the upper belt may be wrapped around the metatarsal bone. The lower belt is wrapped around the animal's foot and fixed. For example, in the case of a dog or cat, the lower belt may be wrapped around the paws. The upper belt and the lower belt may be provided with stretchability in the extending direction and elasticity in the plane orthogonal direction. The upper belt and the lower belt are connected at both ends and are wound around the heel or around the toes and fixed. Various conventionally known means can be used as means for connecting both ends of the upper belt and the lower belt. The means is preferably a hook-and-loop fastener that can be detachable by overlapping both ends.

  The connecting belt connects the upper belt and the lower belt to constitute an integrated orthosis body, and determines the positional relationship when the upper belt and the lower belt are attached to the animal's feet. For example, when the upper belt is wrapped around the animal's heel and the lower belt is wrapped around the animal's foot, the connecting belt may be one that extends along the back of the foot or the belly of the foot, or along the side of the foot. Or a pair of left and right extending. The connecting belt may be configured not to be separable from the upper belt and the lower belt, or may be detachable from one or both of the upper belt and the lower belt. The connecting belt may have elasticity in the direction connecting the upper belt and the lower belt and elasticity in the direction perpendicular to the plane.

  The lifting belt specifies the distance on the instep side of the upper belt wrapped around the animal's heel and the lower belt wrapped around the animal's foot. Thus, if the distance between the upper side of the upper belt and the lower belt that the lifting belt identifies is shorter than the distance between the upper side of the upper belt and the lower belt that are wound with the toes hanging, the upper belt The foot with the lower belt wrapped around is raised. The distance between the upper belt and the lower belt on the instep side of the upper belt and the lower belt can be adjusted depending on which part of the upper belt and the lower belt the base belt and the front belt are connected to.

  If at least one of the proximal end and the distal end of the lifting belt is a detachable connecting portion, the distance between the upper belt and the lower belt on the instep side can be adjusted. In this case, if the lifting belt has two or more detachable connection portions provided at one or both of the proximal end and the distal end, the load on which the toes to be hung can be spread over two or more connection portions. . Further, when the pulling belt is pulled in a plurality of directions, the pulling direction of each foot can be adjusted by adjusting the pulling degree of each connecting portion.

  When the lower belt is wrapped around the toes of dogs and cats, it inevitably wraps the paws. Therefore, the lower belt is provided with a non-slip at a portion that contacts the ground or the like, and the non-slip is used as a substitute for the meat ball. The lower belt may be provided with a slip stopper including a portion that overlaps the meat ball and contacts the ground or the like, and may not have a slip stopper over the entire circumference. For example, if the specific lower belt is structured to hang from the instep side of the foot to the abdomen side of the foot and connect the overlapping ends with hook-and-loop fasteners, it is grounded to the female or male surface of the hook-and-loop fastener. It is sufficient to provide an anti-slip on the side.

  The animal foot lift device of the present invention can be attached to an animal's foot so that the instep of the foot is not rubbed against the ground or the like even if there is a symptom of hanging the foot. Symptoms of hanging the toes are caused by various factors, so the animal foot lifting device of the present invention does not directly relieve or ameliorate the symptoms, but exacerbates the cause of the disease or injury. In addition, the occurrence of injury caused by rubbing the instep of the foot against the ground can be prevented.

  If the lifting belt has two or more detachable connection parts provided at one or both of the proximal end and the distal end, the load of the foot that hangs down is distributed to two or more connection parts, and each connection part by the load Can be prevented or prevented from separating from the upper belt or the lower belt. This enhances the mounting stability of the animal foot lift device of the present invention. In addition, since the lifting direction of the toes can be adjusted by the lifting belt, it is possible to pull the toes in detail according to how the animals and the toes drip, and the burden on the animals can be reduced.

  Non-slip provided on the ground of the lower belt, for example, protects the belly of the foot or exerts the anti-slip function of the foot instead of the meat ball. Further, since the anti-slip is grounded on the ground or the like instead of the lower belt, it also has a function of preventing the lower belt from rubbing against the ground or the like. Furthermore, the portion provided with the anti-slip is a portion to which the weight of the animal is added, and there is an advantage that the double belt structure of the lower belt and the anti-slip structure constitutes a structure that can withstand the load due to the weight.

It is a top view showing an example of the toe raising device for animals to which the present invention is applied. It is a bottom view of the animal foot raising apparatus of this example. It is the perspective view which looked at the step which attaches a lower belt to a foot tip from the ventral side of a foot about the toe raising device for animals of this example. It is the perspective view which looked at the step which mounts an upper belt in the front of a heel from the back of the foot about the toe raising device for animals of this example. It is the perspective view which looked at the step which pulls up a raising belt from the front side about the toe raising device for animals of this example. It is the perspective view which looked at the step which pulls up a raising belt from the back side about the toe raising device for animals of this example. It is the perspective view which looked at the step which connected the front-end | tip left and front-end | tip right of the raising belt to the upper belt about the toe raising device for animals of this example from the front side. It is a side view of the stage which connected the tip left of the raising belt and the tip right to the upper belt about the animal foot raising device of this example.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the animal foot lift device 1 of the present invention is wound around and fixed to the front of the heel 22 of a dog (see FIG. 8 below for the part of the foot 2. The same applies hereinafter). An orthosis body 1 comprising an upper belt 12, a lower belt 13 that is wound around and fixed to a dog's toe 21, and a connecting belt 14 that connects the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 to the instep 211 side of the lower belt 13 A configuration in which the base end 151 is sewn and a lifting belt 15 that detachably connects the left end 152 and the right end 154 to the upper 211 side of the upper belt 12 can be exemplified.

  The appliance main body 11 of this example is composed of a thick elastic fabric or elastic sheet (for example, a polyurethane foam sheet) having elasticity, with the upper belt 12, the lower belt 13 and the connecting belt 14 as one body, and each peripheral edge thereof. In the configuration in which the edge cloth 141 is continuously provided, the female surfaces of the hook-and-loop fasteners to be the upper belt female surface 121 and the lower belt female surface 221 are pasted on the surface side across the upper belt 12, the lower belt 13, and the connecting belt 14. Attached. The upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 of this example are respectively overlapped from the instep 211 side and are attached to the front of the heel 22 or the toe 21 with the end portions overlapped on the abdomen 212 side of the foot. The connecting belt 14 connects the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 on the instep 211 side. The lifting belt 15 lifts the lower belt 13 with respect to the upper belt 12 on the instep 211 side.

  The upper belt 12 in this example is longer than the cross-sectional circumference of the front of the heel 22 (around the metatarsal bone), and is a belt-shaped part formed in a circular arc shape when viewed from the left and right, and the surface side is a female surface 121 for the upper belt, A male surface 123 for the upper belt is provided on the back surface on the left end side. The upper belt 12 has the left and right ends of the upper belt 12 in front of the instep 211, and the left end and the right end are hung forward in front of the heel 22, and the upper belt male surface 123 on the back side on the left end side is connected to the upper side on the right end surface side. By being overlapped and engaged with the female surface 121 for the belt from below, the belt is fixed in a state of being wound around the front side of the flange 22.

  The lower belt 13 in this example is a belt-shaped portion that is longer than the cross-sectional circumference of the foot tip 21 and is shaped like a circular arc when viewed from the left and right sides, the front side is a female surface 131 for the lower belt, and the left end side is non-stretchable A lower belt flap 132 as a fabric is sewn, a lower belt male surface 133 is provided on the back surface of the lower belt flap 132, and a rubber non-slip 134 is provided on the surface of the lower belt flap 132. ing. The lower belt flap 132 is an operation portion that is picked by a human hand when the lower belt male surface 133 on the back surface is bonded to the lower belt female surface 131 on the right end side. Further, the anti-slip 134 forms a protective surface that is installed on the ground or the like in place of the meat ball 213. The lower belt 13 has its left end and right end hung around the foot abdomen 212 in the state where the center of the left and right is directed to the instep 211, and the lower belt flap 132 back surface of the lower belt male surface 133 on the right end surface. The lower belt female surface 131 is overlapped and engaged with the lower belt female surface 131 from below, and is fixed in a state of being wound around the foot belly 212 including the meat ball 213.

  The upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 in this example are made of stretchable fabric. Thus, the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 can be wound around the front of the heel 22 (upper belt 12) and the foot tip 21 (lower belt 13) without loosening. Here, since the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 use thick elastic fabrics having elasticity, the feeling of pressure when the front of the heel 22 or the toe 21 is tightened is reduced. Further, the connecting belt 14 of this example is made of a stretchable fabric that is integral with the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13, and exhibits stretchability. For this reason, the connecting belt 14 expands and contracts following the movement of the foot 2, and the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 fastened to the front of the heel 22 or the toe 21 do not cause misalignment.

  The lifting belt 15 of this example is a bifurcated X-shaped member composed of a thick elastic fabric (for example, nylon tricot fabric) having elasticity or an elastic sheet, as in the case of the appliance body 11. The base ends 151 and 151 are separately sewn to the lower belt 13, and the tip left 152 and the tip right 154 that are also split into two are extended toward the upper belt 12. The tip left 152 and the tip right 154 are each formed in a circular arc shape in plan view, and a non-stretchable material that can be picked up and pulled up by a human hand is pasted, and a male for a lifting belt is attached to the back surface of the non-stretchable material. Surfaces 153 and 155 are provided. The lifting belt 15 of the present example is such that the left end 152 and the right end 154 are in the vicinity of the boundary between the upper belt 12 and the connecting belt 14 in the contracted state, and the male surfaces 153 and 155 for the left end 152 and the right end 154 are connected to the upper belt. In order to engage with the female surface 121 for 12 upper belts, it is necessary to stretch the whole and generate a stretching force.

  The procedure for mounting the animal foot tip lifting tool of this example (FIGS. 3 to 8) will be described using the dog foot 2 as an example. First, as can be seen in FIG. 3, with respect to the toe 21 of the dog's foot 2, the back of the left and right center part of the lower belt 13 is directed to the instep 211 side, and the right end is first to the abdominal 212 side Next, the lower belt flap 132 on the left end side is hung on the abdomen 212 side of the foot, and the lower belt female surface 131 on the right end side is provided on the back surface of the lower belt flap 132. The male surface 133 is engaged, and the lower belt 13 is wound around the foot tip 21 and fixed. The winding length of the lower belt 13 around the foot tip 21 can be adjusted by the overlapping state of both ends. The meat ball 213 is hidden by the lower belt 13, but a non-slip 134 provided on the surface of the lower belt flap 132 is substituted.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 4, with respect to the front of the heel 22 of the dog's foot 2, the back surface of the central portion of the upper belt 12 is directed to the back 211 side of the upper belt 12, and the right end is first placed on the side of the foot's belly 212. Then, the left end side is hung on the foot abdomen 212 side, the upper belt female surface 121 on the left end side is engaged with the upper belt female surface 121 on the right end side, and the heel 22 The upper belt 13 is wound around the front and fixed. The winding length of the upper belt 12 with respect to the front side of the flange 22 can be adjusted by the overlapping state of both ends. The orthosis body 11 can be attached to the dog's foot 2 by extending the connecting belt 14 and wrapping the upper belt 12 to the lower belt 13 that has been wound around the toe 21 and fixed. Misalignment is prevented. The fixing order of the upper belt 12 and the lower belt 13 may be reversed.

  When the attachment of the appliance main body 11 to the dog's foot 2 is completed, the tip left 152 and the tip right 154 are subsequently pulled and the lifting belt 15 is extended as seen in FIGS. As a result, the foot tip 21 around which the lower belt 13 to which the base end 151 of the lifting belt 15 is sewn is wound is lifted. At this time, the lifting belt 15 of this example has base ends 151, 151 divided into left and right sides and sewn to the left and right ends of the lower belt 13, so that the pulling of the lifting belt 15 is equal to the left and right of the lower belt 13. Can be lifted without twisting the toe 21 in the main pulling direction (see the white arrow in FIG. 5) of the pulled-up belt 15 that has been transmitted and extended.

  The leading left 152 and the leading right 154 of the pulling belt 15 pulled separately are engaged with the pulling belt male surfaces 153 and 155 (see FIG. 6) on the back surface of the pulling belt 15 on the upper belt female surface 121 of the upper belt 12. , Fix. As a result, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the pulling state of the pulling belt 15 (see the white arrow in FIG. 7) for pulling the lower belt 13 is maintained, and the lifted state of the toes according to the lower belt 13 is also maintained. The In the animal foot-lifting device 1 of this example, since the device main body 11 in which the upper belt 12, the lower belt 13 and the connecting belt 14 are integrated is an elastic fabric, the device main body 11 that follows the movement of the foot 2 expands and contracts. However, no deviation occurs with respect to the foot 2. Further, the lifting belt 15 made of stretchable fabric extends when the toe 21 hangs down to increase the pulling force, and thus maintains the raised state of the toe 21.

  The lifting direction and degree of lifting of the toe 21 can be adjusted depending on where on the upper belt 12 the left end 152 and the right end 154 of the lifting belt 15 are fixed. For example, if the tip left 152 is pulled more strongly than the tip right 154 and is engaged with and fixed to the left back of the upper belt 12, the main pulling direction of the lowering belt 15 is inclined to the left. In this case, the main pulling direction of the lowering belt 15 can be tilted to the left even if the front right 154 is pulled more weakly than the left front 152 and hooked and fixed to the right front side of the upper belt 12. Conversely, if the tip right 154 is pulled more strongly than the tip left 152 or the tip left 152 is pulled weaker than the tip right 154, the main pulling direction of the pull-down belt 15 can be tilted to the right.

  The upper belt 11 is longer than the cross-sectional circumference of the front of the heel 22, and the lower belt 13 is longer than the cross-sectional circumference of the toe 21, and the lengths of the upper belt 11 and the front of the heel 22 can be adjusted. In addition to the upper belt 11 and the lower belt 12, the connecting belt 13 is composed of a single continuous stretch fabric, so the orthosis body 11 can be worn regardless of the size or shape of the foot 2. it can. In addition, as described above, the lifting direction and the degree of lifting of the foot tip 21 can be adjusted by the lifting belt 15. From these facts, the animal foot raising device 1 according to the present invention can be mounted on various legs regardless of the type and size of the dog, as well as the limbs that do not ground the cat or other heels. It can also be worn on animal feet, and can handle the various animals with a single product.

1 Animal foot raising device
11 Orthosis body
12 Upper belt
121 Female surface for upper belt
123 Male surface for upper belt
13 Lower belt
131 Female surface for lower belt
132 Lower belt flap
133 Male surface for lower belt
134 Non-slip
14 Connecting belt
141 hem
15 Lifting belt
151 Base
152 Tip left
153 Male face for lifting belt
154 Tip right
155 Male foot for lifting belt 2 pairs
21 feet
211 Instep
212 Feet belly
213 Paw
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Claims (3)

An upper belt that is wrapped around and fixed to the vicinity of the animal's heel, a lower belt that is wound around and fixed to the animal's foot, and a brace body comprising a connecting belt that connects the upper belt and the lower belt,
An animal foot-lifting device provided with a lifting belt having a proximal end connected to the back side of one foot of the upper belt or the lower belt and a distal end connected to the back side of the other foot of the upper belt or the lower belt. The animal foot raising device according to claim 1, wherein the lifting belt has two or more detachable connection portions provided at one or both of the proximal end and the distal end. The animal foot-up lifting device according to claim 1, wherein the lower belt is provided with a non-slip at a portion that contacts the ground or the like.

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