Bandage handy strips

• US 6,140,549 A
• Filed: 01/13/1999
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Anthony Jr. Pompei
• Original Assignee: John Anthony Jr. Pompei
• Inventors: Pompei, John Anthony Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): LEWIS, KIM M
• Application Number:
  US09/229,641
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 206/440, 206/441, 602/41-59, 128/888, 128/889, 221/312 C, 221/33, 221/209
• US Class Current: 602/57
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 15/001 Packages or dispensers for bandages, cotton balls, drapes, dressings, gauze, gowns, sheets, sponges, swabsticks or towels A61F15/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/00897 package for individual plaster

Abstract

A layered mounting for removably retaining a bandage between two facing wrapping sheets. An inner wrapping sheet with adhesive edges is fixed to a backing board while the edges of an outer wrapping sheet engage the adhesive edges of the inner sheet. Between the two facing wrapping sheets are an application tab and a bandage. The application tab have a lower portion retained to the inner wrapping sheet and an upper removal portion with an opposite end tab. These application tab fit over and cover a conventional bandage having a center fluid absorbing pad and two adhesive adjacent side surfaces. A pull tab on the outer wrapper sheet when pulled is used to expose the retained application tab and bandage. The upper portion of the application tab and the bandage can be removed from the two wrappers and the bandage applied to the wound area skin of a user. After doing so, the upper portion of the application tab is discarded. Two or more sets of inner and outer wrappers each with their own separate retained application tab and bandages contents may be used on a single backing board with different sized bandages in each separate set. The backing board may be adhesively retained on a flat surface such as the vertical back non-mirrored side of a medicine cabinet door to permit the one hand application of a removed bandage to a wound.

Claims

1. A layered mounting for removably retaining a bandage, comprising:

a backing board having an inner wrapper sheet affixed to its front surface, said inner wrapper sheet having outer adhesive peripheral edges;

a backing sheet peelable from and adhesively held to a back surface of said backing board, said backing sheet when removed from said back surface providing an exposed adhesive surface on the backing board to permit the attachment of the board to a supporting surface;

a bandage;

applications tab the bandage, said applications tab having a lower portion fixed to said inner wrapper sheet and a separate upper removal portion having end tabs, said bandage being mounted between the end tab of the application tabs wherein the end tabs substantially engage the entire surface area of the bandage; and

an outer wrapper sheet mounted to the inner wrapper sheet along the inner wrapper sheet'"'"'s adhesive peripheral edges to retain the applications tabs and bandage between said inner and outer wrapper sheets.

2. The layered mounting as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of said end tabs for said applications tab is an upper pullable tab used to remove the upper portion of the applications tab and bandage away from the lower portion of the application tab fixed to said inner wrapper sheet.

3. The layered mounting a claimed claim 2, wherein said outer wrapper sheet is a sheet with and extending upper tab used to pull the outer wrapper sheet away from said inner wrapper sheet.

4. The layered mounting as claimed in claim 3, wherein the separate upper removal portion of said applications tab has an upper pull tab used to pull the upper portion and its engaged bandage away from the lower applications tab portion which is retained on said inner wrapper sheet.

5. The layered mounting as claimed in claim 4, wherein said bandage has a center fluid absorbing pad with an upper adhesive sector surface and a lower adhesive sector surface, said upper and lower adhesive sector surfaces facing towards said applications tabs.