BANDAGE DISPENSING PACKAGE

• US 3,835,992 A
• Filed: 10/24/1972
• Issued: 09/17/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Q. Adams IV
• Original Assignee: John Q. Adams IV
• Inventors: Adams, John Q. IV
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Linman, Steven E.
• Application Number:
  US05/300,149
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: 206/42,56A,56AB,56R,63.2R,65R,65K,59R 221/232,70-74
• US Class Current: 206/390
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 15/002 dispensers for web or tape like bandages
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0835 the articles being pulled out of the container
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/82 Separable, striplike plural articles

Abstract

An elongated strip carrier for a plurality of bandages serves as a clean storage package for the bandages and also aids greatly in the dispensing of individual bandages as they are needed. Bandages may be mounted on one or two sides of the carrier strip and the strip may be coiled or otherwise formed into a compact storage body. The awkward handling of individually wrapped small bandages is avoided.

Claims

1. A package and dispensing aid structure for bandages of a type having two adhesive coated end portions and a gauze pad between said end portions comprising in combination an elongated unitary carrier strip for a multiplicity of said bandages, said carrier strip formed of a non-textile smooth-surfaced sheet material possessing enough flexibility and formability to be shaped into a compact package form and subsequently to have one of its ends extended from the package form to facilitate dispensing said bandages one at a time, a plurality of said bandages mounted on at least one face of said carrier strip in substantially equidistantly spaced tandem relationship with their adhesive coated end portions adhered directly to the opposing surface of the carrier strip and being strippable therefrom, said unitary carrier strip comprising plural individual bandage support sections of substantially equal length and being separable from the carrier strip on transverse lines of separation, each support section being somewhat longer than one of said bandages and one bandage being mounted on each support section, whereby the one bandage may readily be stripped from its support section for application to a wound following separation of the support section from the carrier strip, and means holding the carrier strip and bandages releasably in said package form, said carrier strip comprising a flat body portion and a pair of opposite side flanges projecting from the surface of the carrier strip on which the bandages are mounted, said side flanges interfitting in said package form and enclosing and protecting the bandages along the longitudinal edges of the carrier strip, said side flanges being interrupted at regular intervals along the carrier strip to produce a pair of said side flanges on each individual bandage support section of the carrier strip, said support sections being separable from said strip between adjacent pairs of the side flanges, said carrier strip having transverse score lines formed therein to define the separable bandage support sections, said score lines being disposed between adjacent pairs of said side flanges, and interlocking detent means on at least some of said side flanges releasably holding the carrier strip in said compact package form.

2. A package and dispensing aid structure for bandages of a type having two adhesive coated end portions and a gauze pad between said end portions comprising in combination an elongated unitary carrier strip for a multiplicity of said bandages, said carrier strip formed of a non-textile smooth-surfaced sheet material possessing enough flexibility and formability to be shaped into a compact package form and subsequently to have one of its ends extended from the package form to facilitate dispensing said bandages one at a time, a plurality of said bandages mounted on at least one face of said carrier strip is substantially equidistantly spaced tandem relationship with their adhesive coated end portions adhered directly to the opposing surface of the carrier strip and being strippable therefrom, said unitary carrier strip comprising plural individual bandage support sections of substantially equal length and being separable from the carrier strip on transverse lines of separation, each support section being somewhat longer than one of said bandages and one bandage being mounted on each support section, whereby the one bandage may readily be stripped from its support section for application to a wound following separation of the support section from the carrier strip, and means holding the carrier strip and bandages releasably in said package form, said carrier strip being shaped into a generally circular coil form to produce said compact package form, and a pair of side longitudinal flanges on each support section of the carrier strip extending beyond the surface of the carrier strip on which the bandages are mounted, the side flanges of adjacent convolutions of said coil form being overlapped in shingled relationship to produce substantially annular enclosing chambers for said bandages.

3. A package and dispensing aid structure for bandages of a type having two adhesive coated end portions and a gauze pad between said end portions comprising in combination an elongated unitary carrier strip for a multiplicity of said bandages, said carrier strip formed of a non-textile smooth-surfaced sheet material possessing enough flexibility and formability to be shaped into a compact package form and subsequently to have one of its ends extended from the package form to facilitate dispensing said bandages one at a time, a plurality of said bandages mounted on at least one face of said carrier strip in substantially equidistantly spaced tandem relationship with their adheSive coated end portions adhered directly to the opposing surface of the carrier strip and being strippable therefrom, said unitary carrier strip comprising plural individual bandage support sections of substantially equal length and being separable from the carrier strip on transverse lines of separation, each support section being somewhat longer than one of said bandages and one bandage being mounted on each support section, whereby the one bandage may readily be stripped from its support section for application to a wound following separation of the support section from the carrier strip, and means holding the carrier strip and bandages releasably in said package form, said carrier strip being arranged in a coiled formation in said package form with said bandages, and a pair of end cover sheets of frangible material applied adhesively to the opposite edges of the coiled carrier strip to thereby enclose and protect the bandages in said package form.

4. The structure of claim 3, and said carrier strip being constructed to include a plurality of readily separable support sections with each support section carrying one bandage, the support sections defined by transverse score lines in said carrier strip at regularly spaced intervals, and divider elements on said carrier strip substantially normal to the surface thereof on which the bandages are secured and being offset somewhat longitudinally of the carrier strip from said score lines, adjacent pairs of the divider elements defining along the carrier strip closed compartments for the bandages therein, the removal of one support section with one bandage from the carrier strip causing the removal of only one divider element and thereby leaving the next adjacent compartment secure.

5. A package and dispensing aid structure for bandages of a type having two adhesive coated end portions and a gauze pad between said end portions comprising in combination an elongated unitary carrier strip for a multiplicity of said bandages, said carrier strip formed of a non-textile smooth-surfaced sheet material possessing enough flexibility and formability to be shaped into a compact package form and subsequently to have one of its ends extended from the package form to facilitate dispensing said bandages one at a time, a plurality of said bandages mounted on at least one face of said carrier strip in substantially equidistantly spaced tandem relationship with their adhesive coated end portions adhered directly to the opposing surface of the carrier strip and being strippable therefrom, said unitary carrier strip comprising plural individual bandage support sections of substantially equal length and being separable from the carrier strip on transverse lines of separation, each support section being somewhat longer than one of said bandages and one bandage being mounted on each support section, whereby the one bandage may readily be stripped from its support section for application to a wound following separation of the support section from the carrier strip, and means holding the carrier strip and bandages releasably in said package form, said unitary carrier strip being folded back and forth upon itself in zigzag sections while in said compact package form, each folded section of the carrier strip carrying one bandage adhered thereto.

6. The structure of claim 5, and said means holding said carrier strip and bandages in said compact package form comprising an open-ended rectangular sleeve into which the zigzag folded carrier strip and bandages are snugly inserted removably.

7. The structure of claim 6, and side flanges on each folded section of the carrier strip and being biased outwardly to frictionally contact opposing side walls of said sleeve.

8. The structure of claim 5, and said means holding said carrier strip and bandages releasably in said compact package form comprising releasable interlocking detent means on the carrier strip adjacent the transverse folds thereof.