JP6244514B1 - Wearing aid - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an easy-to-use wearing aid that can securely hold a lower garment with a simple structure, and can pull up the lower garment and remove it with a simple operation. A loop-shaped lower garment locking portion 12 that locks a lower garment 32 that is locked and worn around the waist in a state where a waist portion is widened, and a lifting member 22 that pulls up the lower garment locking portion 12 are provided. Is provided. The lower garment locking portion 12 is a hollow tube body having appropriate flexibility, and one end 12a in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment locking portion 12 has appropriate flexibility and the lower garment locking portion. A columnar insertion portion 14 that is thinner than the inner diameter of 12 protrudes. With the insertion part 14 inserted into the other end 12b of the lower garment locking part 12, the lower garment locking part 12 becomes a loop, and when the insertion part 14 is pulled out from the lower garment locking part 12, A loop is opened. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a mounting aid that is attached to a lower garment to be locked and worn around the waist and assists the operation of wearing the lower garment.

  Conventionally, people with low body flexibility due to illness, injury, aging, etc., people with back pain, knee pain, etc., during pants and trousers, etc. It is difficult to bend over and bend the knees, and is painful. For this reason, a wearing aid for assisting the wearing operation of the lower garment has been considered.

  For example, a lower-body underwear wearing aid disclosed in Patent Document 1 has a protruding portion made of a ring-shaped elastic body provided with a removable opening at the lower end of the handle. With the handle portion in a vertical posture, the overhanging portion has a ring shape when viewed from above. The method of using this wearing aid is to lock the rubber part of the pants on the outer peripheral surface of the ring-like overhanging part, and make the rubber string spread out, hold the handle and move the pants to the toes, Put both feet into the hole in the foot, pull up the handle and wear pants.

  In addition, the changeable assisting tool disclosed in Patent Document 2 for a person with a single hand disability is provided by covering a foldable flexible core with a cover. An adhesive tape is provided at each end for winding the core material around the body, and a hand strap is movably provided at the center of the core material. The use of this dressing aid is made by forming the core material into a ring shape with adhesive tape, attaching the waist of clothing to the ring, pulling it up around the body with the ring and a hand strap, and removing the adhesive tape. Clothing can be put on the body with the elasticity of rubber, and clothing can be changed.

JP 2009-82666 A Utility Model Registration No. 312073

  In the case of the above-mentioned background art, the overhang part and ring for attaching the waist part of the lower garment are not closed, the attachment strength of the lower garment is weak, and the lower garment is likely to fall during the wearing operation. Is difficult. Moreover, since the handle | pattern part and handle belt for holding by hand are directly attached to the taking ring or the overhang | projection part, the waist part of the garment attached to the ring or the overhang | projection part is easy to remove | deviate from the part.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the background art. The lower garment can be securely held with a simple structure, and the garment can be pulled up and removed thereafter with a simple operation, which is easy to use. An object is to provide a wearing aid.

The present invention relates to a loop-shaped lower garment locking portion that locks a lower garment to be worn around the waist in a state where a waist portion is widened, and a pulling member such as a pull string that pulls up the lower garment locking portion. Is a mounting aid provided. The bottom garment engaging portion is a hollow tube having a flexibility, the one end portion in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment engaging portion, than the inner diameter of the lower garment retaining portion has a flexibility Also, a thin columnar insertion portion is provided so as to protrude from the end portion. In a state where the insertion portion is inserted into the other end of the lower garment retaining portion, the bottom garment engaging portion is in loop, when withdrawing the insertion portion from the lower clothing locking portion The loop is opened. The insertion portion may also be a hollow tube body.

  The length of the lower garment locking portion is slightly shorter than the standard body girth, and the protruding length of the insertion portion is from one third of the length of the lower garment locking portion. It is about a quarter.

  The lower garment locking portion and the insertion portion are resin tube bodies, and the lifting member is a drawstring.

The pull string is attached to the lower garment locking portion at two locations in the diameter direction of the loop via a connecting member, and the connecting member is L-shaped and attached to the lower garment locking portion. one side surface is positioned so as to protrude downward at a substantially right angle with respect to a virtual plane of said loop when said lower garment engaging portion becomes the loop, the side surface of the other of said drawstrings are attached said loop It protrudes outward along the extending direction of the diameter substantially parallel to the imaginary plane.

  The wearing aid of the present invention is easy to use because it can securely hold the lower garment with a simple structure, and can be lifted and removed by a simple operation. People with low physical flexibility due to illness, injury, aging, etc., or people with back pain or knee pain, can easily wear their own garments without bending down or bending the knees. it can.

It is a perspective view of the mounting aid of one embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which opened the loop of the mounting aid of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the mounting aid of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the mounting aid of this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show an embodiment of the present invention. A wearing aid 10 of this embodiment is a lower garment locking portion made of a hollow tube body having a length that goes around the waist of a wearer. 12 is provided. The lower garment locking portion 12 is made of a synthetic resin having moderate flexibility, and a hose for allowing gas or liquid to pass therethrough may be used. The thickness is, for example, an outer diameter of 10 mm, an inner diameter of 7 mm, and a length of 650 mm. is there. At one end 12 a in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment locking portion 12, there is an insertion portion 14 made of a flexible synthetic resin hollow tube having a diameter smaller than that of the lower garment locking portion 12. Is provided.

  The insertion portion 14 is attached with one end portion 14a inserted into the inner space 13 of the lower garment locking portion 12 and the other end portion 14b extending outward from the end portion 12a of the lower garment locking portion 12. It protrudes. The protruding length of the insertion portion 14 is about one third to one fourth of the length of the lower garment locking portion 12. The outer diameter of the insertion part 14 is thinner than the inner diameter of the lower garment locking part 12, and is slidably inserted into the other end 12b of the lower garment locking part 12. When the insertion portion 14 is inserted into the end portion 12b, the lower garment locking portion 12 becomes a loop, and the diameter of the loop can be changed by changing the insertion length. When the end part 14b of the insertion part 14 is pulled out from the end part 12b, the loop is opened, and the lower garment locking part 12 and the insertion part 14 become a long member connected in series. The insertion part 14 may use a hose or may be a flexible elongated columnar material, and has a thickness of, for example, an outer diameter of 4 mm and a length of 200 mm.

  At two places in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment locking portion 12 and at two places in the diametrical direction when it becomes a loop, a drawstring locking portion 18 is attached via an L-shaped metal connecting member 16 It has been. The drawstring locking portion 18 is a short elastic tube body, and may be a tube body having the same diameter as the lower garment locking portion 12 or a hose. A pulling string 20 of a lifting member, which is a string body, is provided in the pulling string locking portion 18 so as to be inserted into the inner space 13.

  The drawstring 20 is formed into an annular shape by connecting ends pulled out to the outside of the drawstring locking portion 18. The length of the drawstring 20 is slightly longer than twice the length of the drawstring locking portion 18 and should not be too long, for example, 320 mm. The drawstring 20 is stopped from sliding by forming knots or the like in the vicinity of both ends of the drawstring locking portion 18. A pulling string 22, which is a separate lifting member, is attached to a portion of the pulling string 20 located outside the pulling string locking portion 18. The drawstring 22 is a flat band and is wider than the drawstring 20 in the width direction. Both ends of one drawstring 22 are connected to two drawstrings 20, and are sewn and fixed near the middle of the portion of the drawstring 20 exposed from the drawstring locking portion 18. ing. The length of the drawstring 22 is slightly longer than the lower garment locking portion 12 and should not be too long. The pull string 22 may be detachable from the pull string 20, or the pull string 20 may be formed detachable from the pull string locking portion 18.

  The connecting member 16 that connects the lower garment locking portion 12 and the drawstring locking portion 18 has an L shape in which a pair of rectangular side surfaces 16a and 16b are continuous at a right angle. One hole is provided for each. A resin band 24 is attached to one side surface 16 a, and the resin band 24 is wound around the lower garment locking portion 12, and both end portions thereof are overlapped with the side surface 16 a and fixed with bolts 26. The resin band 24 is fixed to the lower garment locking portion 12 with a screw 28 to prevent rotation along the side peripheral surface of the lower garment locking portion 12 and displacement in the longitudinal direction. A resin band 30 is attached to the other side surface 16 b, and the resin band 30 is wound around the drawstring locking portion 18, and both end portions thereof are overlapped with the side surface 16 b and fixed with bolts 26. The resin band 30 is fixed to the lower garment locking portion 12 with a screw 28 to prevent rotation and displacement. The side surface 16a is positioned so as to protrude downward at a substantially right angle with respect to the virtual surface of the loop when the lower garment locking portion 12 becomes a loop by the insertion portion 14, and the side surface 16b is substantially parallel to the virtual surface of the loop. It protrudes outward along the extending direction of the diameter in the tangential direction.

  In this way, the pair of drawstring locking portions 18 are fixed to the outside of the virtual surface below the virtual surface of the lower garment locking portion 12, and are provided at two locations in the diameter direction of the virtual surface of the garment locking portion 12. Is located. The lower garment locking portion 12 and the drawstring locking portion 18 are fixed to the connecting member 16 with resin bands 24 and 30. Although there are slight deformations due to the flexibility of the resin bands 24 and 30, the position and orientation Will not change significantly. The widths of the resin bands 24 and 30 connected to each other and the connecting member 16 are both about 15 mm, the length of the connecting member 16 plus the side surface 16a and the resin band 24 is about 35 mm, and the side surface 16b and the resin band 30 are connected to each other. The added length is almost the same.

  Next, a method for using the wearing aid 10 will be described. The insertion part 14 is inserted into the end part 12b of the lower garment locking part 12, and the lower garment locking part 12 is made into a loop, and as shown in FIG. Install. The pants 32 are provided with a waist portion 34 that opens upward and two foot hole portions 36 that open downward. A rubber tape 38 is attached to the inner peripheral surface 34 a of the waist portion 34 so as to make a round.

  The pants 32 are put inside the lower garment locking portion 12 of the wearing aid 10, the waist 34 is put on the lower garment locking portion 12, and the inner peripheral surface 34 a of the waist portion 34 is folded outward. At this time, after the rubber tape 38 attached to the waist portion 34 is stretched and applied to the lower garment locking portion 12 and then released, the rubber tape 38 contracts and does not return to the direction over the lower garment locking portion 12. Then, the rubber tape 38 is pressed against the side surfaces 16a of the pair of connecting members 16 attached to the lower garment locking portion 12 by the elastic force of the rubber tape 38 so that the rubber tape 38 does not return to the original length, and the rubber tape 38 has an appropriate tension. The pants 32 are spread out in a state that is easy to wear. Since the side surface 16b protrudes from the lower end of the side surface 16a of the connecting member 16 at a right angle and continues, the rubber tape 38 contacts the side surface 16b even if it is displaced downward, and does not fall downward.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the user 40 who wears the pants 32 sits on the chair 42, holds the pulling string 22 of the wearing aid 10 to which the pants 32 are attached, and holds the lower garment locking portion 12 at the foot. Take it down. At this time, since the drawstring 22 has a sufficient length, the user 40 does not need to bend down or bend the knee. In addition, if the insertion part 14 of the wearing aid 10 is on the rear side of the user 40, that is, the back side of the knee, it is easy to remove the wearing aid 10 in a later step. Then, the legs are put into the pair of foot hole portions 36 of the pants 32 that are spread and set inside the lower garment locking portion 12, the pull cords 20 and 22 are pulled, and the pants 32 are pulled up on the knees. Then, the waist part 34 of the pants 32 is extended by extending the rubber tape 38 and over the lower garment locking part 12 so that the inner peripheral surface 34a of the waist part 34 is on the body side. Thereafter, the insertion portion 14 of the wearing aid 10 is pulled out from the end 12b of the lower garment locking portion 12, the loop is opened, and the lower garment locking portion 12 is removed from the waistline. The user 40 lifts his / her waist from the chair 42 and completes the wearing of the pants 32 by hand.

  When the wearing aid 10 is not in use, the lower garment locking portion 12 and the insertion portion 14 are wound in a loop shape 2-3 times to be compact, and stored in a storage bag or the like.

  According to the mounting aid 10 of this embodiment, the pants 32 can be securely held with a simple structure, and the pants 32 can be pulled up on the knees and removed after a simple operation. People with reduced physical flexibility due to illness, injury, aging, etc., or people with back pain or knee pain, can easily wear the pants 32 themselves without bending down or bending the knee. it can. While reducing the burden of a caregiver, it can help the user 40 independence. There is no burden on the body of the user 40 and there is no pain. There is no need to bend over or place a center of gravity on one foot, and to prevent falls.

  The lower garment locking portion 12, the insertion portion 14, and the drawstring locking portion 18 can be made of a commercially available material such as a hose, and can be easily obtained, processed and assembled easily, and easily manufactured. is there. It has moderate flexibility and elasticity, is safe even when it hits the body, and can be restored to its original shape even if it is bent by excessive force.

  When the pants 32 are attached, the pants 32 can be simply operated by bending the waist part 34 along the lower garment locking part 12, and the rubber tape 38 of the waist part 34 goes around the lower part of the lower garment locking part 12. It can be securely attached and will not come off carelessly. The rubber tape 38 abuts on the L-shaped connecting member 16 and is easy to operate without shifting. Furthermore, the pants 32 do not fall during operation, and it does not take time to reattach the pants 32. Since the drawstrings 20, 22 are attached to the lower outer side of the lower garment locking portion 12 by the connecting member 16, there is no trouble when the waist portion 34 of the pants 32 is put on, and the waist portion 34 is not detached therefrom. .

  The lower garment locking portion 12 inserts the insertion portion 14 from the end portion 12b to securely form a loop to hold the pants 32, and pulls out the insertion portion 14 to easily open the loop and Can be removed from the body after wearing. Furthermore, by adjusting the insertion amount of the insertion portion 14, the size of the loop can be changed as appropriate, and can be adjusted to various body shapes.

  The drawstring 22 is fixed to the center of the drawstring 20 in the longitudinal direction, the drawstring 20 is stopped so as not to slide on the drawstring locking portion 18, and the drawstring locking portion 18 is connected to the lower garment by the connecting member 16. Since the stopper 12 is fixed at a predetermined position, even when force is applied to the drawstrings 20 and 22 unevenly when the pants 32 are pulled up, the position does not shift or deform, and it is easy to operate. The pulling-up force is equally applied to two places in the diameter direction of the loop of the lower garment locking portion 12, and the lower garment locking portion 12 can be pulled up easily. Since the connecting member 16 extends toward the lower outer side, the waist part 34 does not come into contact with the waist part 34 even when a force for lifting the pulling string 22 is applied, and the waist part 34 comes off from the lower garment locking part 12. There is no.

  In addition, since it is lightweight and flexible, it can be stored compactly and can be carried when not in use. You can carry it around and use it on the go, and you can go out and stay overnight with peace of mind.

  In addition, the mounting aid of this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A material, a diameter, length, etc. can be changed suitably. Without providing the pull string 20, the pull string 22 may be directly attached to the string locking portion 18, or may be detachably provided by a hook, a hook-and-loop fastener, or other locking members. In addition to the pants, the lower garment may be anything such as trousers, a skirt, a paper diaper, etc., and can be used as long as an elastic body is provided on the waist. The insertion part may not be a hollow tube body, and may be any one that is slidably inserted into and locked in the lower garment locking part.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Wearing assistance tool 12 Lower garment latching | locking part 12a, 12b End part 14 Insertion part 16 Connection member 16a, 16b Side surface 20,22 Pull string 32 Pants 34 Waist part

Claims (4)

A loop-shaped lower garment locking portion that locks the lower garment to be worn while being worn around the waist in a state where the waist portion is widened, and a pull-up member that pulls up the lower garment locking portion is provided. stop portion is a hollow tube body having flexibility capable of changing the loop diameter, the one end portion in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment engaging portion, said lower garment locking has flexibility A columnar insertion part that is thinner than the inner diameter of the part is provided protruding from the end part, and the length of the lower garment locking part is slightly shorter than the circumference of the person's waist, the insertion part is It is formed so that it can be inserted into the hollow inner space at the other end in the longitudinal direction of the lower garment locking portion, and the protruding length of the insertion portion is shorter than the length of the lower garment locking portion, and the insertion the bottom garment locking portion in a state where the protruding end parts are inserted into the other end of the lower garment engaging portion is a loop, prior to the insertion portion Wearing aid, characterized in that the loop is opened and pulled out from the lower garment retaining portion.   The mounting aid according to claim 1, wherein a protruding length of the insertion portion is one third to one fourth of a length of the lower garment locking portion.   The mounting aid according to claim 1, wherein the lower garment locking portion and the insertion portion are resin tube bodies, and the lifting member is a drawstring. The lower garment locking portion is attached to two places in the diametrical direction of the loop through pulling strings as the lifting member via a connecting member, the connecting member is L-shaped, and the lower garment locking portion one side surface of said connecting member attached L-shape, the located downwardly projecting substantially at right angles to the virtual plane of the loop when the lower garment engaging portion becomes said loop, said coupling other side the drawstrings are portion attached members, substantially parallel to the imaginary plane of the loop, projects outward along the extension direction of the diameter of the loop of the lower garment locking portion wearing aid of claim 1 wherein is located.

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