Wristband having exposed adhesive fastener

• US 6,782,648 B1
• Filed: 01/15/1997
• Issued: 08/31/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation (Brady Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation (Brady Corporation)
• Inventors: Mosher, Walter W. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, William L.
• Application Number:
  US08/784,180
• Time in Patent Office: 2,785 Days
• Field of Search: 156/522, 156/384, 156/542, 156/552, 156/238, 156/249, 406/33, 406/65, 63/3
• US Class Current: 40/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07762 the adhering arrangement making the record carrier wearable, e.g. having the form of a ring, watch, glove or bracelet record carriers for insertion in the human body for medical purposes A61B90/00; record carriers adapted for attachment to animals A01K11/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/005 Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1052 with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1084 of continuous or running length bonded web
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1343 Cutting indefinite length web after assembly with discrete article
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/171 Means serially presenting discrete base articles or separate portions of a single article
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1734 Means bringing articles into association with web

Abstract

An identification wristband having an exposed adhesive fastener located adjacent one extremity thereof. Identification and other information is provided on the wristband intermediate its extremities.

Claims

1. In a system for producing and dispensing a succession of identification bracelets, the combination comprising:

a plurality of elongated flexible bracelet strips each having a length sufficient to encompass an object to be identified, each of said strips further having upper and lower surfaces and first and second opposite extremities;

an information storage area on each of said bracelet strips intermediate said first and second opposite extremities thereof for the receipt of identification information; and

fabrication means including means for imparting identification information to the information storage area on each of said plurality of bracelet strips in succession;

said fabrication means further including means for applying uncovered adhesive fastener means to one of said upper and lower surfaces generally at one of said first and second opposite extremities of each of said bracelet strips;

said fabrication means further including means for dispensing said plurality of bracelet strips in succession with said identification information carried by said information storage area of each of said bracelet strips and with said uncovered adhesive fastener means exposed, for substantially immediate placement of each of said bracelet strips onto a respective object to be identified thereby, with said exposed adhesive fastener means being substantially immediately engageable with said other of said first and second opposite extremities for connecting said first and second opposite extremities in overlapping relation and to prevent separation thereof with said bracelet strip encircling the object to be identified.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said fabrication means applies said uncovered adhesive fastener means to only one of said upper and lower surfaces of only one of said first and second opposite extremities of each of said bracelet strips.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said identification information comprises visual information.

4. The combination of claim 1 wherein said identification information comprises machine readable information.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein said identification information comprises printed information.

6. The combination of claim 1 further including an RF chip carried by each of said bracelet strips for storing electronic information.

7. The combination of claim 1 further including a magnetic strip carried by each of said bracelet strips for storing electronic information.

8. The combination of claim 1 wherein said information storing area is on said upper surface of each of said bracelet strips, and further wherein said exposed adhesive fastener means is mounted on said lower surface of each of said bracelet strips.

9. The combination of claim 1 wherein said exposed adhesive fastener means comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive.