Color-matched sterile adhesive bandages containing melanin-like pigment composition
AssigneeFleshtones Products Co., Inc.
InventorJames E. Dow, Jr.
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Abstract
A sterile bandage suitable for external application to a wound or injury of the human skin comprising a backing layer, a non-toxic pigmented composition coated onto or embedded into the top side of said backing layer, wherein said pigmented composition comprises one or more pigments having a melanin likeness in appearance so as to substantially match the appearance of said human skin.
Claims16
An article of manufacture comprising a sterile bandage suitable for external application to a wound or injury of the human skin comprising a backing layer and a non-toxic pigmented composition coated onto or embedded into said backing layer substantially matching the appearance of human skin, wherein said pigmented composition comprises from about 0.5% to about 98% by solid weight of at least one melanin pigment or pigment having substantially the color and appearance of melanin, said melanin pigment being selected from the group consisting of melanin, eumelanin, spiomelanin, phaeomelanin and mixtures thereof.
An article of manufacture comprising a sterile adhesive bandage suitable for external application to a wound or injury of the human skin comprising:
- (a) a backing layer having a bottom side and a top side;
- (b) an adhesive layer applied to said bottom side of said backing layer;
- (c) an absorbent pad attached to a portion of said bottom side of said backing layer by a portion of said adhesive layer;
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- (d) a non-toxic pigmented composition coated onto or embedded into said top side of said backing layer substantially matching the appearance of human skin, wherein said pigmented composition comprises from about 0.5% to about 98% by solid weight of at least one melanin pigment or pigment having substantially the color and appearance of melanin, said melanin pigment being selected from the group consisting of melanin, eumelanin, spiomelanin, phaeomelanin and mixtures thereof.
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