BANDAGE CONSTRUCTION

• US 3,863,640 A
• Filed: 04/27/1973
• Issued: 02/04/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles B. Haverstock
• Original Assignee: Charles B. Haverstock
• Inventors: Haverstock, Charles B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laudenslager, Lucie H.
• Application Number:
  US05/355,188
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 128/335,334R,303,156,21 27/21 24/203,204,21C,25R,25G,28A
• US Class Current: 606/216
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/085 with adhesive layer

Abstract

A bandage construction incorporating means for drawing flesh along two or more sides of a wound together and holding it so drawn during healing so that the formation of scar tissue is substantially minimized or eliminated. To this end, the present bandage construction includes two or more portions, which are adhesively or otherwise attached to the skin adjacent to the edges of the laceration, cut, incision, or the like and have cooperating engageable means to bring and hold the wounded flesh together.

Claims

1. A bandage for closing a wound comprising first and second strip portions of a relatively flexible material, each of said strip portions having a skin attaching surface and a flange formed of a flexible material extending along one side edge thereof, a coating of an adhesive substance applied to at least a portion of said skin attaching surfaces on each of said strip portions for attaching the said strip portions to the skin in spaced relationship to each other and along opposite edges of the wound, at least a portion of the adhesive substance on each of said strip portions extending to the side edges of the respective surfaces thereof which are to be attached along opposite edges of the wound, and cooperating engagable means including elongated male and female members extending respectively along each of said flanges, said male member being movable into cooperative resilient engagement with the female member when pressure is applied against the respective flanges in a direction to press the male and female members together thereby to unite and hold the strip portions and the skin along opposite side edges of the wound together.

2. The bandage defined in claim 1 wherein said cooperating engagable means includes interlocking means and slide fastener means to bring said interlocking means together and into engagement.

3. The bandage defined in claim 1 wherein the cooperatively engagable means include a sidewardly extending rib portion on the flange of the first strip portion, and the flange on said second strip portion has a groove of a size and shape to cooperatively receive and hold said rib portion when pressure is applied to push said rib portion into said groove.

4. The bandage defined in claim 1 wherein a non-adhesive absorbent bandage pad is located partially across said adhesive coating on the bottom surface of at least one of said strip portions and at an intermediate location along said strip portion.

5. The bandage defined in claim 1 wherein said first and second strip portions are formed of a flexible plastic material.

6. A bandage-like construction for closing a skin separation thus obviating the necessity of surgically stitching comprising a flexible bandage-like member formed by separable first and second portions each of which has an adhesive substance applied to corresponding surfaces thereof for attaching the respective portions to the skin in spaced relationship to each other adjacent to opposite edges of the skin separation to be closed, and means for joining the separate first and second portions and the skin to which they are attached together including elongated flange means including respectively elongated male and female mating members respectively on said first and second portions located thereon extending along said edges thereof adjacent to the edges of the skin separation, said adhesive substance applied to each of said first and second portions extending to the respective edges thereof which are to Be attached extending along opposite side edges of the skin separation, said mating members being movable toward each other into mating condition to hold the first and second portions and the attached skin together in closing the skin separation.

7. The bandage construction defined in claim 6 wherein each of said first and second bandage portions has a removable protective covering applied over the adhesive coating substance thereon.

8. The bandage construction defined in claim 6 wherein said cooperating male member includes an elongated bead extending sidewardly from along the side edge of the said associated first bandage portion and the female member includes an elongated groove extending along the side edge of said second bandage portion, which groove being constructed to cooperatively receive said bead therein when said bead is pressed into engagement therewith.

9. Means for closing a skin separation during healing comprising a bandage-like structure having first and second portions each including a strip portion having opposite surfaces and spaced side edges, a coating of an adhesive applied to corresponding surfaces of said portions for attaching the first portion to the skin extending along one side of the skin separation and for attaching the second portion to the skin extending along the opposite side of the skin separation in spaced relationship to the first portion, said adhesive extending to the respective side edges of the first and second portions which are positioned to extend along opposite side edges of the skin separation, and cooperatively engageable means respectively on said first and second portions on the side edges of the portions to be located extending along the respective side edges of the skin separation, said cooperatively engageable means including elongated flanges extending along the respective side edges of said portions, and means on said flanges which become engaged to hold the flanges together when pressure is applied against the flanges in a direction to press the flanges against each other.

10. The bandage defined in claim 9 wherein at least one of said first and second strip portions has a plurality of spaced perforations.

11. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the cooperatively engagable means include zipper means.

12. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the cooperatively engagable means include VELCRO fastener means.

13. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the cooperatively engagable means include adhesive means.

14. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the cooperatively engagable means include respective flanges on the first and second portions and male type means on one of the flanges and female type means on the other of said flanges.

15. The means defined in claim 9 including an operator member movable in one direction to unite the cooperatively engagable means and in another direction to separate the said cooperatively engagable means.

16. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the first and second portions are flexible perforated members each having an adhesive substance on one side for attaching it to the skin.

17. The means defined in claim 16 including a layer of an absorbent material overlaying the said first and second attached portions, and means for attaching the absorbent overlayer to the skin.

18. The means defined in claim 9 wherein said cooperatively engagable means include means that become engaged when pressure is applied to them in a direction in the plane of the first and second portions.

19. The means defined in claim 9 wherein the said cooperatively engagable means include means that become engaged when pressure is applied to them in a direction normal to the plane of the first and second portions.