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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1996
Armin Zepf, Duderstadt, DE;
Otto Bock Orthopaedische Industrie Besitz-, Duderstadt, DE;
Abstract
A hyperextension orthosis includes a fastener casing mounted on a free end of the orthosis side-piece. The fastener casing releasably receives one end of a waist belt. The fastener casing has a spring arm with a catch on one end. When the waist belt is pushed into an insertion slot extending through the fastener casing, the catch automatically engages under a spring action one of several locking cutouts in the waist belt. The catch can be unlocked by manually pressing together two slides mounted to a frame member of the fastener casing for transverse displacement relative to the insertion slot. At an end opposite the catch, the spring arm has a stud, spring, or the like that engages a groove, bore, or the like in the side-piece in a positive fit.