IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

• US 3,660,916 A
• Filed: 11/10/1969
• Issued: 05/09/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clifton E. Mcdermott, Darrell B. Steiniche
• Original Assignee: Clifton E. Mcdermott, Darrell B. Steiniche
• Inventors: McDermott, Clifton E., Steiniche, Darrell B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US04/875,141
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 40/1.5,21C,21 225/78,75
• US Class Current: 40/633
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/21 having a variable access code
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/005 Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/279 Opposed movable jaws

Abstract

An identification band has a receptacle for receiving a series of detached or detachably joined labels and dispensing structure for dispensing the labels one at a time. The method includes providing a plurality of labels with indicia including coded identification and placing the labels in an identification band. When the band is attached to a patient and object or the like, the labels may be serially detached and/or removed from the band, and affixed to a secondary object to identify the object as relating to the patient.

Claims

1. An identification band comprising an interiorly hollow strip adapted to be united to itself in an endless fashion, dispensing means mounted on the strip for discharging labels out of the strip one at a time, and a plurality of removable labels having indicia thereon serially detachably joined one to another received within said band and dispensable in seriatim from the dispensing means.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said dispensing means is formed with a trailing edge portion dimensioned to be received within the hollow of said band and has an interior channel communicating with the hollow of said band to permit passage therethrough of said labels.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said dispensing means is formed with opposing upper and lower jaws with said lower jaw being formed to extend substantially beyond the leading edge of said dispensing means to support said labels as they are dispensed therefrom and said upper jaw being formed with a tapered downwardly directed edge adjacent the leading edge thereof engageable with said labels to prevent retraction of said labels within said dispensing means.

4. A patient identification assemblage comprising:

a band comprising a strip inseparably unitable to itself in an endless fashion around a limb of a health care patient;

receptacle means mounted to the strip;

a plurality of labels each having previously prepared common indicia thereon which identifies the patient, the labels being serially arranged within and entirely concealed from exposure by the receptacle means;

means by which successive manual dispensing of the labels from the concealed position within the receptacle to an exposed position is accommodated.