Barrier envelope for reusable photo-stimulable phosphor imaging plates
AssigneeAir Techniques, Inc.
InventorsEdgar Alzner, Tom Lloyd
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Abstract
A barrier envelope for reusable photo-stimulable phosphor imaging plates, particularly for digital dental imaging comprised of a plastic transparent film and a plastic opaque film sealed to each other about three sides thereof defining a chamber for an imaging plate and wherein a free side of each film is formed with a flap and one flap is coated with an adhesive medium protected by a peel strip and wherein a “Y” shaped notch is provided on a side of the barrier envelope adjacent to the free side of each film the barrier envelope to facilitate tearing open of the barrier envelope in a removal procedure and transport of an exposed imaging plate to an optical scanning assembly.
Claims8
An improved barrier envelope for a reusable imaging plate, which comprises:
- a transparent plastic film;
- an opaque plastic film heat sealed to said transparent plastic film about a left side portion, a right side portion and a bottom portion thereby defining a chamber for said imaging plate, said films having an axial orientation parallel to a heat sealed seam of said bottom portion, a free side of one of said films provided with an adhesive coating wherein contact between said adhesive coating on said free side of one of said film with a free side of a cooperating film defines a seal line for hermetically sealing said chamber of said barrier envelope and a side portion of said barrier envelope provided with a “Y” shaped notch including an excise portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.