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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1982
Richard W Turner, Alpine, CA (US);
Vernon E Stewart, Moberly, MO (US);
Other;
Abstract
Improvements in reuseable, heat exchanging head pieces for cooling or heating substantially the entire hair bearing (scalp) area of the human head; improvements in a blank form for use in the manufacture of such product for the said purposes for filling with reuseable heat exchanging materials; a reuseable, heat exchanging head piece employable with cancer chemotherapy patients in order to cool the scalp zone of the head in order to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy treatment and injections; improved reuseable devices and processes for heat exchanging the human scalp, including such with a variable or adjustable size headband constriction and limited, yet controllable upper head surface of skull surface compression for full, substantially 'holiday' free cooling or heating; further improvements in such heat exchanging head pieces wherein the blank form and heat exchanging head pieces are alternatively used or available for use in a one-shot or nonreuseable configuration.