WEIGHTED PROSTHETIC BREAST

• US 3,811,133 A
• Filed: 08/31/1972
• Issued: 05/21/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene Harris
• Original Assignee: Eugene Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaudet, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frinks, Ronald L.
• Application Number:
  US05/285,157
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 3/36 128/478-481,462,463
• US Class Current: 623/7
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/52 Mammary prostheses brassieres A41C3/00

Abstract

Prosthesis making results in a superior product when a hollow plastic form is filled with a resilient wadding and a discrete weight. The attributes of external appearance and feel on one hand and the feel associated with wearing the prosthesis on the other hand are dealt with separately. No attempt is made to provide homogeneity or uniform density. Skin is represented by a plastic outer shell or form, inner flesh by wadded fibers compressed to provide feel, and weight is represented by one or more discrete, flexible weights placed to facilitate holding the prosthesis in position. Flesh color is simulated by including cosmetic powder of selected color in the translucent plastic shell. The process and the product of the process are described and a breast restoration is described in particular.

Claims

1. A prosthetic breast comprising:

a hollow form of soft plastic defining a shell having a rear wall shaped to complement the shape of the user'"'"''"'"'s chest and having a forward wall shaped like a breast;

a resilient wad of fibrous material filling said hollow form; and

a weight contained in the form and separated from said forward wall by said fibrous material;

said weight comprising a body of resilient material in which weights are imbedded and which is bonded to the interior side of the rear wall of said shell in the central region of its area.

2. The invention defined in claim 1 in which the forward wall of said form has a thickness between one-sixteenth and three-sixteenths of an inch throughout the region surrounding its nipple and is made of transluscent plastic containing a quantity of pearl coloring.

3. The invention defined in claim 2 in which said forward wall has imbedded within it a layer of cosmetic powder.

4. The invention defined in claim 1 in which the whole exterior of the rear surface of said form is grooved to form parallel serrations.

5. The invention defined in claim 4 in which said form is made of a vinyl plastic, the front and rear parts of said form being bonded into a completely sealed shell, and said fibrous material comprising a wad of synthetic fibers.