Medicated bandage pocket

• US 4,117,841 A
• Filed: 02/07/1977
• Issued: 10/03/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rollo Carles, Rollo Perrotta Anthony
• Original Assignee: Anthony Perrotta, Charles Rollo
• Inventors: Rollo, Charles, Perrotta, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US05/766,244
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 128/155, 128/156, 128/260, 128/268, 128/253
• US Class Current: 604/304
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/0206 with absorbent fibrous layers, e.g. woven or non-woven absorbent pads or island dressings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/0226 characterised by the support layer
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/0246 characterised by the skin-adhering layer

Abstract

A self-contained medicated bandage adhesive strip that has a rupturable pocket confining a quantity of suitable medicament and a self-contained means for rupturing the pocket.

Claims

1. A bandage adapted to releasably confine a quantity of active substance therefrom, comprising at least one adhesively coated bandage strip having two opposing surfaces, said adhesive being on one surface thereof, at least one partially rigid pointed member disposed on a portion of said one surface and facing downward away therefrom, a liquid impermeable sheet communicating with said one surface at opposing ends thereof and being spaced apart therebetween forming a cavity exposing said pointed members, said liquid impermeable sheet extending partially over said one surface of said adhesively coated strip, a quantity of liquid or gell active substance disposed in said cavity and adapted to be released therefrom by forcibly puncturing said liquid impermeable sheet.

2. The bandage as defined in claim 1 further including a sheet of liquid permeable material on the non-communicating surface of said liquid impermeable sheet.

3. The bandage as defined in claim 1 wherein said sheet and said strip are of substantially the same width.

4. The bandage as defined in claim 1 wherein there are two opposing strips with said liquid impermeable sheet disposed therebetween.

5. The bandage as defined in claim 1 wherein there are a plurality of said members, each being frusco-conical in shape.

6. The bandage as defined in claim 1 wherein said active substance is selected from the group consisting of medicinally, therapeutically, antimicrobially, and anesthetically active substances.