Elastic knee wrap

US5728058A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• William Ouellette · Brookline, US
• Timothy Alan Burkett · Sharonville, US
• Leane Kristine Davis · Milford, US
• Elizabeth M. Harvey · Sharonville, US
• Kurt E. Holstein · Cincinnati, US
• Carl Noble · Maineville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2007/0233
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A substantially rectangular piece of flexible web having a first end and a second end and an elastic portion therebetween stretchable along a longitudinal axis of the piece of flexible web. The piece of flexible web has a length great enough to encircle a user's knee such that the first and second ends overlap. The first end has a reclosable fastening system for attaching the first end to the piece of flexible web near the second end in order to hold the piece of flexible web around the user's knee when the piece of web is stretched. The piece of flexible web also has an aperture therein. The aperture is aligned with the user's patella to establish a convenient locating point for wrapping the knee wrap around the user's knee. The piece of flexible web further includes a means for extending the piece of flexible web transverse to said longitudinal axis at the aperture in order to accommodate bending of the user's knee. The knee wrap even further includes a plurality of thermal elements embedded in the piece of flexible web. The plurality of thermal elements has a pattern which applies thermal energy to the sides and top of the user's knee.