NEEDLE OR CATHETER RETAINING APPLIANCE

• US 3,826,254 A
• Filed: 02/26/1973
• Issued: 07/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Whittaker Corp (Parker-Hannifin Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Eli K. Mellor
• Inventors: Mellor, Eli K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laudenslager, Lucie H.
• Application Number:
  US05/335,478
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 128/132,133,155,DIG.6,DIG.16,DIG.26,169,171,215,157,348,35R
• US Class Current: 604/180
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0253 where the catheter is attached by straps, bands or the like secured by adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0266 using pads, patches, tapes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

An appliance for securely retaining a needle or catheter type device in operative position on a patient'"'"''"'"'s body.

Claims

1. An appliance for securely retaining a needle or catheter type device in operative position on a patient'"'"''"'"'s body, comprising a. a lengthwise longitudinally elongated pad having first and second elongated sections, the second section defining a flap extending lengthwise beyond the first section to be folded back over one side of the first section and over said device oriented relative to the sections to extend crosswise thereof and therebetween, b. first pressure sensitive adhesive means on the opposite side of the first section to adhere said first section to a patient'"'"''"'"'s body, and c. second pressure sensitive adhesive means on the pad to adhere the flap to said pad first section and to be adherent to said device, d. said first pressure sensitive adhesive means being interrupted to define primary and secondary extents with spacing therebetween to underlie said device, the pad flap extending substantially beyond said secondary extent of the first pressure sensitive means so as to be foldable back over said primary and secondary extents of the first pressure sensitive means as well as over said device, and there being peel-off backer strip means including primary and secondary portions respectively overlying said primary and secondary extents.

2. The appliance of claim 1 including said device, the pad folded back over the device and back over the primary and secondary extents of the first pressure sensitive means at opposite sides of said device.

3. The appliance of claim 1 wherein said second pressure sensitive adhesive means includes third and fourth extents, the third extent on said one side of the first section and the fourth extent on one side of the flap.

4. The appliance of claim 3 wherein said peel-off backer strip means includes third and fourth portions respectively overlying said third and fourth extents.

5. The appliance of claim 4 wherein said third and fourth portions define a split therebetween which lies opposite the spacing between said primary and secondary extents of the pressure sensitive adhesive means.

6. The appliance of claim 1 wherein the pad consists of polyurethane.