Sock donning assist device

US5632424A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Manfred Maier · Lutherstadt Eisleben, DE
• H. Millicent MacCannell · Blauvelt, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 1996
• Grant date: May 27, 1997
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A47G25/905
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A sock donning assist device that allows a caretaker to put a sock on a disabled person who can not put the sock on themselves. The sock donning assist device includes a hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame. The hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame consists of a plurality of different sized and shaped slender members. The plurality of different sized and shaped slender members form a substantially vertically-oriented portion for retaining a sock during donning wherein the sock has an upper portion and a lower portion, and a horizontally-oriented portion extending forwardly from the substantially vertically-oriented portion of the hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame for gripping by a user during donning the sock. Prior to donning the sock the substantially vertically-oriented portion of the hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame receives the lower portion of the sock and the substantially vertically-oriented portion of the hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame is received by the upper portion of the sock. During donning the substantially vertically-oriented portion of the hollow rigid substantially L-shaped frame is progressively removed from the upper portion…