Ostomy pouch
AssigneeConvatec Limited
InventorClare Holden
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Abstract
An ostomy pouch includes a sheet of woven comfort material. The sheet of woven comfort material has an outside surface and an opposite inside surface. The outside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material forms at least part of the outside surface of the pouch, and at least part of the inside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material is coated with a web of hot-melt adhesive. A method of forming a sheet of comfort material for an ostomy pouch involves coating one side of a sheet of woven comfort material with a web of hot-melt adhesive to provide an inside surface comprising the coating. The web comprises a mass with a plurality of voids therein.
Claims9
An ostomy pouch comprising a sheet of woven comfort material, the sheet of woven comfort material having an outside surface and an opposite inside surface, wherein the outside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material forms at least part of the outside surface of the pouch, and the inside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material is coated with a hot-melt adhesive over an entire area of the sheet of woven comfort material, the hot-melt adhesive comprising a web comprising a mass and a plurality of voids in the mass making up at least 50% of the web;
- wherein a layer of the sheet of woven comfort material covering a front of the pouch comprises an upper part and a lower part, which overlap in an overlap region wherein the lower part is selectively separable from the upper part at the overlap region;
- and the hot-melt adhesive is provided on both the upper part and the lower part in the overlap region such that the upper part and lower part remain positioned adjacent one another along the overlap region unless the upper part and lower part are separated from one another at the overlap region by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.