Patent ID: 8393503

Claim:
A self-operated device for the disabled for putting on stockings or socks and similar garments, comprising: a widener ( 1 , 11 ) of an approximately semicylindrical shape, onto which socks (C), stockings and similar garments can be put and kept in open position; hooking means ( 4 , 5 ) for strengthening the hold of said widener ( 1 ) on the garments applied thereto, respectively placed in the back part of the widener ( 1 ) and above the lateral walls of the same; handles ( 7 ) allowing the use of the device according to the present invention, linked to stiff rods ( 8 ) hinged on joints ( 9 ) or other equivalent means connected by means of pins ( 10 ) or other equivalent means to said widener; one or more releasing tension ribbons ( 6 ) for determining the release of the garments from the corresponding hooking means ( 4 , 5 ), wherein said tension ribbons ( 6 ) are connected to the back hooking means ( 4 ) and, optionally, to upper hooking means ( 5 ), and cooperate directly with the garment for making the same to overtake said hooking means ( 4 , 5 ) when the user pulls them.