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Skin closure means

  • US 3,933,158 A
  • Filed: 02/15/1974
  • Issued: 01/20/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Means for closing skin separations comprising a pair of sheet-like elements each having opposite side surfaces and adjacent side edges, an adhesive substance applied to corresponding side surfaces of each of said elements for attaching the elements to the skin adjacent to a skin separation with the side edges of said elements extending respectively along and closely adjacent to opposite sides of the skin separation, cooperating means on each of said sheet-like elements extending along the respective side edges thereof on the opposite sides thereof from the adhesive substance, the cooperating means and the adjacent sheet side edges on said elements being movable into abutment to close the skin separation, and elongated channel shaped means having continuous opposed edges extending substantially continuously the full length of the cooperating means cooperatively removably engaged with said cooperating means on said elements to hold said cooperating means together in abutment, said channel shaped means applying substantially uniform pressure to hold the elements together along the length of the engagement between the channel shaped means and the cooperating abuting means on the adjacent sheets.

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