Medical Band Assembly With Detachable Flag Label
OwnerKim Canchola, Ronald G. Ennis +1inventors
InventorsKim Canchola, Ronald G. Ennis, Shane Taghavi
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Abstract
A medical band assembly for identifying a patient and items and/or samples related to the patient may have an elongated body that may be formed into a loop. The medical band assembly supports a flag label on one of its surfaces. The flag label has a pair of flag sections joined together by an intermediate support bridge. The flag label is separable from the medical band and attachable to an object to be labeled by wrapping the flag label around the object, such that the next extends around the object, and securing the flag sections together on the opposing side.
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A medical band assembly comprising:
- a medical band having an elongated body with opposing surfaces bounded at their edges by a periphery, the medical band extending from a main body to a strap in which the strap is attachable to the main body to form a loop from the medical band;
- a flag label supported on one of the opposing surfaces of the main body of the medical band and being separable from the medical band for attachment to an object to be labeled, the flag label including a pair of flag sections joined to one another by an intermediate support bridge;
- wherein, when the flag label is separated from the medical band, the pair of flag sections are foldable onto one another to join a contacted pair of their surfaces together such that the intermediate support bridge is wrapable around the object to be labeled by the flag label.
A method of attaching a flag label to an object, the method comprising:
- detaching the flag label from a medical band assembly, in which the medical band assembly comprises:
- a medical band having a main body attached to a strap in which the strap is attachable to the main body to form a loop from the medical band;
- the flag label having a first and second flag sections separated by an intermediate support bridge;
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- an adhesive applied to the back of at least one of the first and second flag sections
- wrapping at least a portion of the intermediate support bridge around the object;
- adhering the first flag section to the second flag section thereby attaching the flag label around the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.