초록 ▼

A prosthetic device to enable persons incapable of proper control of their fingers to manipulate objects such as brushes, pencils, or toys. It resembles a partial glove, covering only the palm, held in place with straps around the back of the hand. It uses hook and loop pile (Velcro for example) bot

A prosthetic device to enable persons incapable of proper control of their fingers to manipulate objects such as brushes, pencils, or toys. It resembles a partial glove, covering only the palm, held in place with straps around the back of the hand. It uses hook and loop pile (Velcro for example) both to fasten the straps to the body and as a patch on the palm side to which objects fitted with mating pile can be attached. One strap is long enough to provide added support by passing over the handle of the object. A separate patch with a ring in the center is described－this works better for grasping reasonably rigid, extensive objects like balls.

대표청구항 ▼

Apparatus to enable persons to fix objects to their hand without requiring participation of their fingers, comprising a body portion constructed of fabric having a roughly quadrilateral outline with a plurality of spaced protrusions along one side, and first securing means located on one (the outer)

Apparatus to enable persons to fix objects to their hand without requiring participation of their fingers, comprising a body portion constructed of fabric having a roughly quadrilateral outline with a plurality of spaced protrusions along one side, and first securing means located on one (the outer) surface of said body portion, and a plurality of straps attached one to each spaced protrusion of said body portion extending in the same direction as the protrusion, and, second securing means located on one (the inner) surface of each said strap, said second securing means being capable of attachment to said first securing means, and a patch of material having on its surface a coarser version of said first securing means, fixed to the same surface of said body portion as is said first securing means, whereby said body portion may be placed with its inner surface against the palm of a persons open hand, then said straps may be passed around the back of the hand and across said body portion, so that through action of said first and second securing means the apparatus will be fixed to the hand with said patch of material both exposed and attached to the persons hand such that objects may be fixed thereon without requiring participation of the fingers.