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Title:
INGROWN NAIL CORRECTION IMPLEMENT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009285441
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an ingrown nail correction implement which dispenses with surgical operation, uses inexpensive materials, has simple structure, is easily manufactured and can be provided for a user inexpensively and which allows a person having an ingrown nail to treat the ingrown nail and to wear by him-/her-self and is easily attached/detached.

In the correction implement 1, a spring wire is bent and formed into a weak arc shape and its both ends are each bent outward from the arc and formed into hook shapes so that the ends of spring wire function as engagement parts 2 for a nail. The mouth of the arc of the correction implement 1 is drawn to deform and contract it into an shape and both side engagement parts 2 are respectively inserted from the backside of the nail into two small holes bored at both outside liberation edges on the tip end part of the correction implement 1 to engage the correction implement 1 with the nail to widely open the outside edges of the ingrown nail 6 by restoration force of the spring wire to correct deformation of the ingrown nail 6. The person having the ingrown nail can treat the ingrown nail and wear the correction implement 1 by him-/herself and attachment/detachment can be easily done because the correction implement 1 is fixed by a tape etc., to the bottom side of the toe after engaging the correction implement 1 with the ingrown nail without using an adhesive for fixing the correction implement 1.


Inventors:
ISHIKAWA HIDEAKI
Application Number:
JP2008169548A
Publication Date:
December 10, 2009
Filing Date:
June 01, 2008
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Assignee:
ISHIKAWA HIDEAKI
International Classes:
A61F5/11
Domestic Patent References:
JP2527125A
JP2003265508A2003-09-24
Foreign References:
US2746451A1956-05-22
US2499851A1950-03-07
US2542324A1951-02-20