MEDICAL ALARM BRACELET

• US 3,805,427 A
• Filed: 12/18/1972
• Issued: 04/23/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Herman Epstein
• Original Assignee: Herman Epstein
• Inventors: Epstein, Herman
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US05/316,227
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 40/21,21C,61,62
• US Class Current: 40/633
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/005 Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

A medical alarm bracelet adapted to be worn by persons with chronic medical conditions which might affect medical treatment to be administered to them under emergency conditions, when they might be unconscious or otherwise unable to advise emergency personnel of their chronic condition, the bracelet consisting of a wrist band of ductile material adapted to be formed to the wrist and worn thereon and having specific medical information imprinted thereon, and a slide mounted for sliding movement along the wrist band, normally concealing the medical information on the wrist band but being movable to expose it, the exterior surface of the slide bearing a notice that medical information is concealed thereby. The slide is formed of resilient material and is so related to the wrist band that its resilience frictionally resists its movement along the wrist band.

Claims

1. A medical alarm bracelet comprising:

a. a wrist band adapted to be worn about the wrist, having an externally convex curvature, and having indicia indicating medical conditions of the wearer imprinted thereon, and b. a slide mounted on said wrist band for movement therealong between a first position concealing said indicia, and a second position exposing said band indicia to view, said slide having indicia imprinted on the exterior surface thereof indicating, when said slide is in said first position, that it conceals said band indicia, said slide being formed of resilient sheet material, and having both longitudinal edges thereof, at each end portion thereof, slidably secured to the respectively opposite longitudinal edges of said wrist band, said wrist band carrying externally projecting nibs which underlie the respective end portions of said slide when said slide is in said first position, whereby to bow said slide end portions outwardly from said wrist band in a transverse direction, said slide also being maintained resiliently flexed in a longitudinal direction in its mid-portion by its end connections to said wrist band, the resilience of said slide thereby applying a frictional load to said end connections.

2. A medical alarm bracelet as recited in claim 1 wherein said wrist band comprises a strap of generally C-shape with its ends spaced apart, said strap being formed of a material sufficiently ductile to permit manual adjustment thereof to the size and contour of the wrist of any individual wearer.