Color-coding system for breathing bags

• US 20090159083A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Zettergren, Linda J., Finnigan, Timothy M. JR.
• Application Number:
  US12/004,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20090159083A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/205.130
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0078 Breathing bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/584 having a color code
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6081 Colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A breathing bag is disclosed. The breathing bag comprises a bag body enclosing an interior volume of the breathing bag. The bag body includes a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag. The breathing bag further comprises a bushing coupled to the neck portion. The breathing bag includes at least one indicia thereon. The at least one indicia has a color corresponding with a size of the breathing bag.

Claims

1. A breathing bag comprising:

a bag body enclosing an interior volume of the breathing bag, the bag body including a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag; and

a bushing coupled to the neck portion,

wherein the breathing bag includes at least one indicia thereon, the at least one indicia corresponding with a size of the breathing bag.

2. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the at least one indicia is provided on the neck portion.

3. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the at least one indicia is colored tape positioned on the neck portion.

4. The breathing bag of claim 3, wherein the colored tape is adapted to couple the bushing to the neck portion.

5. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the at least one indicia is a color of at least a portion of the bag body.

6. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the at least one indicia includes at least one number corresponding to the size of the breathing bag.

7. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the bag body has an elongated shape with an enlarged intermediate portion tapering to the neck portion.

8. The breathing bag of claim 1, wherein the at least one indicia is a color of the bushing or a portion thereof.

9. A method of distinguishing a size of a breathing bag, the method comprising the acts of:

providing a breathing bag, the breathing bag including a bag body enclosing an interior volume of the breathing bag, the bag body including a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag and a bushing coupled to the neck portion;

providing at least one indicia on the breathing bag, the at least one indicia having a color corresponding with a size of the breathing bag; and

comparing the color of the at least one indicia to a color code, the color code having a color corresponding with a size of the breathing bag.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one indicia is provided on the neck portion.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one indicia is colored tape positioned on the neck portion.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the colored tape couples the bushing to the neck portion.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one indicia is a color of at least a portion of the bag body.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one indicia includes at least one number corresponding to the size of the breathing bag.

15. A method of manufacturing a breathing bag comprising the acts of:

forming a bag body, the bag body including a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag;

coupling a bushing to the neck portion; and

providing at least one indicia, the at least one indicia having a color corresponding with a size of the breathing bag.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising attaching the bushing to the neck portion using at least one piece of tape, wherein the at least one indicia is at least one color located on the at least one piece of tape.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one indicia includes a pigment or dye used to form at least a portion of the bag body.

18. The method of claim 15 further comprising printing the at least one indicia on a portion of the bag body.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one indicia includes at least one number corresponding to the size of the breathing bag.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the bag body has an elongated shape with an enlarged intermediate portion tapering to the distal end portion and tapering to the neck portion.

21. A breathing bag comprising:

a bag body enclosing an interior volume of the breathing bag, the bag body including a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag; and

a bushing coupled to the neck portion,

at least one piece of tape coupling the bushing to the neck portion, the at least one piece of tape having at least one indicia thereon, the at least one indicia including a color corresponding with a size of the breathing bag.

22. The breathing bag of claim 21, wherein the at least one indicia further includes at least one number corresponding with the size of the breathing bag.

23. The breathing bag of claim 21, wherein the bag body has an elongated shape with an enlarged intermediate portion tapering to the neck portion.

24. A method of manufacturing a breathing bag comprising the acts of:

forming a bag body, the bag body including a distal end portion and a neck portion terminating in an open proximal end of the breathing bag; and

providing at least one indicia positioned on the bag body, the at least one indicia being associated with a size of the breathing bag.

25. The method of claim 24 further comprising coupling a bushing to the neck portion.