Patent ID: 6916301
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method of deploying and re-deploying a waterproof cast and bandage cover for a limb upon which is present a cast, a bandage or both a cast and a bandage, the method comprising: first unrolling a thin-walled elastomeric water-impervious linear tube onto a limb so that the first unrolled tube squeezes circumferentially against the limb and seals watertight against the limb and any casts and bandages upon the limb; and then, at a desired time after first unrolling, re-rolling the tube from off the limb, while the tube remains stationary and non-sliding upon the limb, so as to take up the tube into, and so as to form, a rolled annular ring; and then, at a desired time after re-rolling, second unrolling the thin-walled elastomeric water-impervious linear tube again onto the limb so that the second unrolled tube again squeezes circumferentially against the limb and seals watertight against the limb and any casts and bandages upon the limb, wherein the first unrolling, the re-rolling, and the second unrolling collectively constitute a deploying, and a re-deploying of the tube, which tube serves as a waterproof cast and bandage cover.