Air-pressure splint

Claim 1

An air-pressure splint for fully encasing an injured human leg, said air-pressure splint comprising: an outer flexible and relatively non-stretchable wall; an inner flexible wall connected by seaming about its perimeter in air-tight, sealed relationship to said outer wall to coact with the latter and defining a double-walled and sealed, inflatable envelope, said envelope including an air chamber portion in position to surround the entire leg, an inner flexible wall disposed between said inner wall, said outer wall intermittently connected to the outer wall by air-tight margins forming a plurality of longitudinally disposed laterally spaced air chambers, said air chambers releasably engaging said inner wall to hold said chamber portion in said surrounding position; releasable, self-locking, slide fastener connecting means longitudinally disposed on said respective separate margins extending from the upper adjacent corresponding ends of the latter to the opposite lower margin ends at the foot portion of said air splint for releasably connecting the margins together with the chamber portion of the splint surrounding the injured leg, said slide fastener closing as the slide is moved toward the foot portion, the splint having a length to extend beyond the foot a distance, said slide adapted to come to rest against the upper portion of the foot and adapted to exert a slight force on the top of the foot and preventing rotation of said splint and longitudinal traction of the leg; the upper ends of said envelope having uneven peripheral contours such that a portion of said envelope end extends upwardly above said leg for restraining said splint from rotating about said leg and exerting an upward pressure on the crotch when said envelope is inflated.