Self adhesive bandage roll
US5843011A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 11, 1997 |
| Grant date | Dec 1, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 11, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61F2013/00863
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A self adhesive bandage roll that unrolls and covers a wounds. The roll includes a carrier strip, a gauze pad strip that is disposed on the carrier strip, and a pair of release sheets of protective material that are releasably disposed on and peelable from the carrier strip. The wound is protected by first peeling back a sufficient amount of the pair of release sheets, then affixing one end of the self adhesive bandage roll to past one extreme of the wound, then unrolling the self adhesive bandage roll longitudinally along the wound with the gauze pad strip longitudinally covering the wound and the adhesive coating adhering the self adhesive bandage roll to the area adjacent the longitudinal perimeters of the wound until the wound has been entirely covered, and then severing by severing apparatus the self adhesive bandage roll at a point past the other extreme of the wound so as to fully cover the wound and the area adjacent the longitudinal perimeters of the wound with the wound being fully covered by the gauze pad strip.
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