Holder for elongated members

• US 5,195,981 A
• Filed: 12/05/1991
• Issued: 03/23/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Melissa C. Johnson
• Original Assignee: Melissa C. Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, Melissa C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirsch, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US07/802,620
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 604/179, 604/180, 604/174, 128/DIG. 26, 29/302, 29/306
• US Class Current: 604/180
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0206 where the catheter is secured by using devices worn by the patient, e.g. belts or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/026 where the straps are releasably secured, e.g. by hook and loop-type fastening devices
• 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

A tube holder adapted to be applied to the body to correctly position a tube and comprising a flat base for application to the body, and on the base at the center thereof being a tube holder comprising a length of material riveted to the base and having a connection means on the end portions of the material to make a tie. The rivet may be one piece and permanent or in two pieces and snap fastened and unfastened.

Claims

1. A holder for tubes, rods or other elongated members comprising:

a flat, flexible support base having opposite surfaces,

a member holder means mounted on one surface of said base for holding a tube, rod or other elongated member on said base,

a rivet connecting said member holder means to said base, said rivet being permanently crimped to said base and to said member holder means so that the base and member holder means are permanently secured,

said flat flexible support base comprising a thin sheet of flexible material which is conformable to a separate flat or contoured surface,

a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive means covering the surface of said sheet opposite the surface on which said member holder means is mounted for removably securing said base to a separate supporting surface,

a removable protective cover covering said pressure sensitive adhesive means,

said member holder means comprising a strip of flexible material having opposite end portions bendable over a tube, rod or other elongated member placed on said strip between the ends thereof,

conjoining means on said opposite end portions of said strip for releasably securing said end portions together about a tube, rod or other elongated member which is placed on said strip between said end portions,

said rivet extending through said flat, flexible support base and said strip of flexible material intermediate the end portions of said strip.

2. The holder of claim 1 wherein said conjoining means comprises hook and loop fasteners.

3. The holder of claim 1 wherein said conjoining means comprises pressure sensitive adhesive.

4. The holder of claim 1 wherein said conjoining means comprises notches on one of said end portions and an opening in the other of said end portions to receive said one end portion and to secure said end portions in a loop about a tube, rod or other elongated means.

5. The holder of claim 4 wherein said strip of flexible material includes a central enlargement intermediate the end portions of said strip, and said rivet connecting the member holder means to said base extends through the approximate center of said central enlargement, said central enlargement having a width substantially greater then the width of the end portions of said strip.

6. The holder of claim 5 wherein said strip is made of a semi-rigid plastic material.

7. The holder of claim 5 wherein said central enlargement is of a substantially circular configuration.