Patent ID: 8182546

Claim:
In combination with an elastomeric suction sleeve formed with a fabric shell, inserted onto a prosthetic suction socket and adapted to be unfurled up and around a wearer's residual limb to maintain suction in said socket, an improvement comprising an attachment strap for securing said sleeve exteriorly over a rim of said prosthetic socket, said attachment strap further comprising: a closed loop buckle; a first flexible strap attached at one end to one side of said closed loop buckle and extending there from to a free end, said first strap comprising an inner hook material laden with hook-attachments covering an entire inside surface of said first strap, and said first strap comprising an outer loop fabric laden with loops covering an entire outside surface of said first strap; a second flexible strap attached at one end to another side of said closed loop buckle and extending there from to a free end, said second strap comprising an inner hook material laden with hook-attachments covering an entire inside surface of said second strap, and said second strap comprising and an outer loop fabric laden with loops covering an entire outside surface of said second strap, and said second flexible strap being shorter than said first flexible strap; whereby a user may wrap the first strap around a section of their sleeve overlying their prosthetic socket such that a first length of said first strap is bound by its inner hook material to the fabric shell of said sleeve and a second length of said first flexible strap extending beyond said first length to said free end is not bound to said fabric shell, pass the free end of the first strap back through the closed loop buckle, pull the free end of the first flexible strap apart from the free end of the second flexible strap until both of said first and second flexible straps are taut, bind the inner hook-material along the second length of the first strap to the outer loop fabric along the first length of said first flexible strap, and bind the inner hook material along the second length of the second strap to the outer loop fabric along the first length of the first strap to secure both of said first and second flexible straps tightly in a flush configuration.