An apparatus for use by persons with reduced mobility by paatagming of tights

摘要

A pull-on device is disclosed which makes it easier for persons handicapped in their ability of move to put on stockings. The novel pull-on device comprises a stocking-foot resembling piece (10) made of soft material and cut open on the top side. The sole of the piece is devised to be stiff in the longitudinal direction and resilient along a middle portion. The middle portion is connected at the heel part with a rearwards protruding plate member (14) of flexible material and a forward projecting sheet member under the sole (16). The side portions formed by the cut are devised to keep facing one another so as together with the sole between themselves to define an expansible space suited for insertion of a foot the side portions are capable of surrounding a stocking applied thereon. In addition, the pulling means (26, 28) are attached to the rear edges of the piece (10) and the plate member (14) to render possible with assistance of the flexible plate member (14) gradual insertion and advance of the foot to the toe portion of the stocking the subsequent pulling on of the stocking and removal of the piece (10) with plate member (14) and sheet member (16) attached thereto is accomplished by separating the side portions from each other after the user finishes pulling-on of the stocking.