Collection device and material
AssigneePuritan Medical Products Company, LLC
InventorsTerry YOUNG, Timothy TEMPLET, Paul DUBE, Todd DIXON, Armand F. LEWIS, Yong K. KIM
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Abstract
Swabs, and materials of the present disclosure, and methods of making same, include randomly arranged sea-island bicomponent fibers.
Claims19
A swab constructed to collect and release a biological sample comprising a flock fiber tipped applicator wherein the flock fibers are sea-island bicomponent fibers attached to an end portion of said applicator with an adhesive selected from the group consisting of a photocurable acrylic adhesive and a polyurethane adhesive, the bicomponent fibers being structurally stable in water and the sea component of the bicomponent flock fibers being intact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.