CATHETER SUPPORT

• US 3,726,280 A
• Filed: 05/28/1971
• Issued: 04/10/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Allen L. Lacount
• Original Assignee: Allen L. Lacount
• Inventors: Lacount, Allen L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truluck, Dalton L.
• Application Number:
  US05/147,792
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 128/348,349R,35R,351,DIG.26,DIG.15,133,214R
• US Class Current: 604/179
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0206 where the catheter is secured by using devices worn by the patient, e.g. belts or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

This invention relates to a catheter support comprising an elongate elastic band carrying a pair of two-part fastener sets adapted when fastened to define a small tube-receiving loop and a larger limb-receiving loop arranged in figure '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'8'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' relation to one another.

Claims

1. The catheter support which comprises:

an elongate elastic band;

first fastener means carried by one face of said band having a first element adjacent an end thereof and a second element spaced longitudinally of said first element, said first and second elements cooperating when fastened together to define a minor loop sized to releasably retain a catheter tube;

second fastener means carried by the other face of said band with one element in back-to-back relation to the second element of the first fastener means and another of its elements on he opposite end from said first element of said first fastener means, the elements of said second fastener means cooperating when fastened together to define a major loop sized to releasably receive a human limb, and said first and second fastener means cooperating with one another to locate the major and minor loops in figure-8 relation to one another.

2. The catheter support as set forth in claim 1 in which:

the second fastener means includes at least one element like the element thereof on the end of the band spaced inward longitudinally of the latter.

3. The catheter support as set forth in claim 1 in which:

the parts of the first fastener means are longitudinally adjustable relative to one another so as to vary the size of the minor loop defined thereby.