Patent ID: 8657887
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A prosthesis covering having an appendage joining portion, fingers, and finger tips, and having a dorsal side and a palmar side, the covering comprising: an outer layer having an exterior surface that defines an outermost surface of a prosthesis when the prosthesis covering is in use on the prosthesis; an inner layer having an interior surface that lies adjacent the prosthesis when the prosthesis covering is in use on the prosthesis; the outer and inner layers having generally a same form and the outer layer defining a space in which the inner layer is received such that an inwardly directed surface of the outer layer lies adjacent an outwardly directed surface of the inner layer; and the inwardly directed surface of the outer layer and the outwardly directed surface of the inner layer of the entire covering being attached to each other solely at the finger tips and the appendage joining portion of the prosthesis covering, the inwardly directed surface of the outer layer and the outwardly directed surface of the inner layer of the prosthesis cover elsewhere being unattached to each other, whereby motion of the inner layer and outer layer relative to each other is not impeded thereby not restricting the flexion of the fingers of the prosthesis, and wherein the exterior surface of the outer layer is configured to resemble human skin.