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- Side view: The user can set his or her arm in the brace and grip the comfortable foam handle. The arm staps/braces will rest about 2 inches behind the wrist and about 2 inches before the elbow joint. The bottom of the brace itself is made of a rigid yet comfortable foam material covered in an elastic and soft fabric material.
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- Grip apparatus: After setting their arm in the brace, the user can squeeze the grip repeatedly to tighten the arm braces. This process is similar to how devices that measure blood pressure tighten the band that goes around the user’s arm. After squeezing the arm braces to desired tightness, the user can extend their thumb upwards to depress a button the locks the air pressure.
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- Grip apparatus cont’d: The end of the grip has a sturdy snap-lock mechanism that can be used for the appropriately designed tools that will work with the brace. A snap release button is located near the air lock button, and the user can press this to unlock the fastening plate in order to switch tools or stop using the device.
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- Attachments / tool case: Tools designed for this device can use a specially designed tool box that places the contained tools at an angle, which will allow the user to easily put the tool they want to switch out in the box, press the release button, and slide the tool off the brace. Then, they can slide the fastener on the brace over the lock of the desired tool in the toolbox.
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- Tool examples: Examples of useful tool for this arm brace would include tools that need the extra leverage or stability usually provided by a second hand. Hand shovels, saws, hedge trimmers, weed whackers, drills, etc are examples of these. The tools like the saw and hedge trimmer would be about 12 inches long while drills, hand shovels and weed whackers could be the usual length, as long as they have the locking mechanism for the brace.