BANDAGE FOR BIG BELLY Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61F5/03 

FIELD: medical equipment; bandages, belts and corsets.

SUBSTANCE: bandage can be used big-sized bellies or hanging-out bellies, namely at obesity. Bandage has back made of woven material with vertical adjusted for curved rigid plate, boards of top and lower belt which boards are connected with opposite parts of back. Ends of boards are equipped with clasps made of textile nap material of Velcro type. Boards of top belt are fastened at bottom part of rigid plate and at opened-up angle. Boards of lower belt are fastened at top part of rigid plate at opened-down angle. Length of top edge of boards of top belts is shorter than their lower edge and length of top end of lower belt's board's is larger than their lower edge. Elastic-resilient members of lower belt can be made close to clasps at ends of boards. Onto external surface at top edge of elastic-resilient members of each board the label can be made. Metric marks can be disposed longitudinal at top adjacent surface of lower edge of each board of top belt. At the position when boards of top belt are connected correspondingly to size of bandage, zero labels of metric marks of any board coincide with label of any corresponding board. In this case metric marks are disposed in such a manner that their meanings reduce in the direction of back. Longitudinal strap of Velcro material hook member can be made at internal top surface close to end of one board of lower belt and longitudinal strap made of Velcro material loop member can be made at lower external surface of the other board. Lower part of hard plate can have curve to provide ability of resting its support against sacrum. Tucks forming protrusion of surface of boards to outside can be made at free ends of boards of top belt.

EFFECT: improved medicinal and esthetic influence onto big or hanging down belly by means of controlled pulling of lower part of belly up.

6 cl, 5 dwg