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US 7,905,852 B2Granted
Skin-contacting-adhesive free dressing
OwnerBarbara Jennings-Springinventor
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Abstract
A dressing having a flexible sleeve shaped to accommodate a substantially cylindrical body portion, the sleeve having a lining which is substantially non-adherent to the body part being bandaged and having a peripheral securement means which attaches two peripheral portions to each other without those portions being circumferentially adhered to the sleeve portion.
Claims22
A dressing comprising an upper and lower layer, defining therebetween, a central tubular portion and spaced apart flaps, said tubular portion having an inner surface which is designed to receive a body part or plant part therein;
- and said upper layer having a top surface distal from said inner surface and said lower layer having a bottom surface distal to said inner surface and distal to said top surface;
- and securement means on the top surface of said spaced apart flaps, such that when said top surfaces of said spaced apart flaps are brought together, face to face, said securement means on the respective top surfaces of said spaced apart flaps mate with each other and secure said dressing in place without either of said spaced apart flaps being circumferentially adhered to either said central portion or to said bottom surface whereby said dressing may be applied and removed without application of substantial torque to said body part or plant part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.