1946 - Electric self-feeding apparatus for amputees
Medical Devices
About This Innovation
* Blount invented this self-feeding device while working with amputees following World War II * It had a tube to transport individual bites of food to the patient's mouth. * This allowed patients to control how much they would eat without assistance from others. * The American Veterans Administration (VA) declined Blount's invention, so in 1952 she licensed it freely to the French government.
The Invention
electric self-feeding device; disposable emesis basin
Key Information
Category:
Medical Devices
Completion Status:
done
Patent Number:
2552554
Co-Inventor:
none
Patent Information
Patent Number: 2552554
Technical Specifications
electric self-feeding device; disposable emesis basin
Collaboration
Co-Inventor: none