Ostomy pouch
AssigneeConvatec Limited
InventorsBryony Lee, Neal Carty, Monica Hill
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Abstract
An ostomy pouch having a cavity for storing stomal output. The cavity is defined by a rear wall and a front wall joined at their peripheries and formed of flexible sheet material. The ostomy pouch further comprises a sheet of woven comfort material covering the outside surface of the front wall. The sheet of comfort material has an outside surface and an opposite inside surface, and the outside surface of the sheet of comfort material forms at least part of the outside surface of the pouch. The inside surface of the sheet of comfort material is laminated across its entire surface to a continuous layer of film material. At least part of the continuous layer of film material is adjacent, facing and unbonded to the outside surface of the front wall.
Claims22
1-14. (canceled)
A method of forming a comfort layer laminate for bonding to a cavity of an ostomy pouch;
- the method comprising laminating a continuous layer of film material directly to a sheet of woven comfort material, with no intervening adhesive layer.
A method of forming an ostomy pouch, the method comprising:
- providing a sheet of comfort material having a continuous layer of film material laminated across the entirety of a first surface, and bonding only part of the first surface of the sheet of comfort material to the outside surface of a wall of a cavity of the ostomy pouch, whereby at least part of the continuous layer of film material is adjacent, facing and unbonded to the outside surface of the front wall.
19-25. (canceled)
The method of claim 21, wherein the continuous layer of film material has a thickness of less than 30 microns across the entire surface of the sheet of woven comfort material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.