WRISTBAND WITH SLOTTED IDENTITY TAG

• US 20060218837A1
• Filed: 07/12/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
• Original Assignee: Laser Band LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Riley, James M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,918,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/633
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/00 Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B42P 2241/22 Sheets or cards with additional means allowing easy feeding through printers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/005 Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person

Abstract

A cushioned wristband includes a carrier having a multi-layered band portion and a strap sewn to the back of the band portion of the carrier. The band has a surface with loop material and the strap has a surface of hook material, the hook and loop surfaces being intended to secure the band in place as it is wrapped about a patient'"'"'s appendage. The strap is appropriately sized to insert through one or both of two cinch slots of a self-laminating hang tag which may be printed with patient information and separated from a sheetlet or page sized business form processed through a printer for imaging of patient information thereon. The band portion of the carrier includes a cushioned layer of soft foamy or spongy material for contacting a patient'"'"'s skin to thereby substantially eliminate any possibility for abrasion, rash, or other irritation or injury to the patient through wearing of the wristband.

Claims

1. A wristband comprising a carrier and a hang tag attached to said carrier, said carrier having a band portion and a strap portion, said band portion having a width larger than the width of the strap portion, said hang tag having a face ply area for receiving an image and at least one slot for attachment of said hang tag to said carrier, the slot having a length sufficiently large to allow the strap portion but not the band portion to slide therethrough.

2. The wristband of claim 1 wherein said at least one hang tag slot comprises a pair of slots formed in opposing ends of the hang tag, said slots each having a length sufficiently large to allow the strap portion but not the band portion to slide through each of them.

3. The wristband of claim 2 wherein the carrier band portion has a single strap portion extending from only one side thereof.

4. The wristband of claim 3 wherein the carrier includes an attachment for joining the strap portion to the panel portion to thereby secure the wristband about a wearer'"'"'s wrist.

5. The wristband of claim 1 wherein said hang tag has a width greater than the strap portion and a pair of slots on opposing sides of thereof, said slots being sized larger than the width of the strap portion but not the band portion and arranged to allow the hang tag to be brought adjacent to the band portion.

6. The wristband of claim 5 wherein the hang tag is formed substantially in the shape of a rectangle and the slots are substantially aligned with opposing sides of said rectangle so that as the strap portion is inserted through both of said slots the hang tag is oriented to be substantially aligned with the strap portion.

7. The wristband of claim 6 wherein the slots are spaced from each other and substantially adjacent the opposing sides of the hang tag so as to provide space therebetween to display wearer information imaged on said hang tag face ply area.

8. A wristband comprising a band for encircling a wearer'"'"'s wrist and being attached to itself to maintain it about the wearer'"'"'s wrist, and a hang tag having at least one slot through which said wristband is inserted to thereby capture the hang tag and maintain it on the wristband after the wristband is attached.

9. The wristband of claim 8 wherein the hang tag is formed at least partly of a sheet-type material and the wristband is separately formed at least partly from a material having a thickness in excess of the thickness of the hang tag.

10. The wristband of claim 9 wherein the hang tag is separable from a sheet containing a plurality of said hang tags, and the wristband is not formed as part of a business form.

11. The wristband of claim 10 wherein said wristband includes a wider panel portion and a narrower strap portion.

12. The wristband of claim 8 wherein said hang tag at least one slot comprises two slots formed at opposing sides of said hang tag, each of said slots being longer than the width of the panel portion but narrower than the width of the strap portion so that the hang tag remains on said strap portion and does not slide over the panel portion.

13. A wristband/hang tag assembly, said wristband/hang tag assembly comprising a wristband with a body portion of larger width than a strap portion, said strap portion extending from one side of the body portion, the wristband being at least partially made from a plastic material, the hang tag being formed of a sheet-like material and having a pair of opposing slots sized to slide over the strap portion but not the body portion, and said slots being spaced apart to define an image receiving area therebetween so that the hang tag may be secured to the strap portion at both its sides by passing the strap portion through the opposing slots as the wristband is applied to a wearer.

14. The wristband/hang tag combination of claim 13 wherein said hang tag has a length shorter than the strap portion.

15. The wristband/hang tag combination of claim 14 wherein said wristband includes a mechanical attachment for attaching the strap portion to thereby secure the wristband/hang tag combination about the wearer'"'"'s wrist.

16. The wristband/hang tag combination of claim 15 wherein said mechanical attachment comprises one element thereof extending along the length of the strap portion so that the strap portion may be secured to the wristband at different locations along its length.