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Class Number: 602
Class Title: SURGERY: SPLINT, BRACE, OR BANDAGE
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 ORTHOPEDIC BANDAGE
2 .With light, thermal, or electrical application
3 .Protective covering means for a bandage or cast
4 .Sling
5 .Splint or brace
6 ..Shaped or shapeable
7 ...By heat application
8 ...By chemically reactive material (e.g., plaster cast)
9 ....Embedded removal element
10 ....Embedded walking iron means
11 ....With toe protector or use enabling means
12 ..Separable splint elements
13 ..Inflatable
14 ..With ventilation, heating, or cooling means
15 ..Box
16 ..With hinge or pivot
17 ..Head
18 ..Neck
19 ..Body (e.g., scoliosis brace)
20 ..Upper extremity
21 ...Hand or wrist
22 ....Finger
23 ..Lower extremity
24 ...Abduction
25 ...Bowed limb
26 ...Knee
27 ...Ankle
28 ...Drop-foot brace
29 ...Club-foot brace
30 ...Toe
31 ....Toenail appliance
32 .Skeletal traction applicator
33 ..Bedstead associated traction apparatus
34 ...Overhead frame
35 ...Supported device
36 ..Body attachment means
37 ...With skin piercing means
38 ..Counter-traction or reciprocal stress means
39 ..Fracture reducing frame or table
40 ..With compression ring, yoke, or post
41 BANDAGE STRUCTURE
42 .Skin laceration or wound cover
43 ..Wound contact surface
44 ...Woven or knit fiber pattern
45 ...Nonwoven fiber pattern
46 ...Polymeric foam
47 ...Perforated
48 ..Wound contact layer containing treatment material
49 ...Polysaccharide
50 ...Amino acid, polypeptide, or protein
51 ...Lipid (e.g., oil, fat, or wax)
52 ..Thin polymeric film or adhesivee
53 ..Compressive element over wound site
54 ..Skin or wound facing adhesive layer
55 ...Patterned
56 ...Absorbent
57 ..System for adhesive layer release (e.g., release sheet)
58 ..Backing layer having particular structural feature (e.g.,
permeability, shaped, or elasticity, etc.)
59 ...Perforated
60 .Support covering
61 ..For a particular body portion
62 ...Arm or leg
63 ....Tubular
64 ....Wrist
65 ....Ankle
66 ....Arch
67 ...Perineal support
68 ....With separable sack
69 ....With drawstring
70 ....Suspensory
71 .....With drawstring
72 .....With rigid cup
73 .....With separable sack
74 ..Head (e.g., headache relief, eye bandage, etc.)
75 ..Compressive elongate wrap (e.g., generic wrapping materials)
76 ...Woven, knit, or nonwoven fiber pattern
77 ...Rubber or latex coated fabric
78 .Separable fasteners for support coverings
79 .Retainers for wound dressings
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* CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900 METHOD OF MAKING BANDAGE STRUCTURE
901 TUBULAR BANDAGE APPLICATORS
902 ANTISNORING OR MOUTH CLOSING DEVICES
903 SURGICAL TAPE
904 FILM-FORMING BANDAGE MATERIAL