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IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

  • US 3,751,835 A
  • Filed: 12/20/1971
  • Issued: 08/14/1973
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an identification assembly including an elongated flexible band with fastening means for irreversibly locking said band to a limb of a patient, the improvement comprising the addition thereto of an identification label dispenser, said identification label dispenser including a longitudinally arcuate container having a compartment formed therein;

  • a flexible, transparent cover, said cover including means for irreversibly securing said cover in the vicinity of one of the ends thereof to said container for providing a moisture-proof closure for said compartment;

    a plurality of unconnected label assemblies within said identification label dispenser, each of said label assemblies including a label holding portion and an identification label positioned in said compartment in arcuate stacked relation;

    said dispenser further including means for holding said labels so that no label can be added without resultant indication thereof, said label holding means projecting through said label holding portion of each of said stacked label assemblies for releasably retaining said labels within said compartment;

    said label holding means being a part of said cover securing means; and

    said label holding means releasably retaining each of said labels so as to resistively tear said label assembly in the vicinity of said label holding means upon the application of a pulling force to each of said label assemblies, with the sensing of said resistive pulling force insuring that no tampering has occurred.

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