# US 8,770,406 B2 · Methods, devices, and systems for providing increased access to first aid supplies

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- Number: US 8,770,406 B2
- Document ID: US8770406B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/653,092
- Filed: 2012-10-16
- Published: 2013-02-21
- Granted: 2014-07-08
- Earliest claimed: 2011-05-17
- Assignees: Tender Corporation
- Applicants: Tender Corporation
- Inventors: Michael Holstein
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8770406B2

## CPC

- A61F 15/002: {dispensers for web or tape like bandages}
- A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C)

## Abstract

Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are methods, devices, and systems for dispensing bandages comprising: a dispenser body defining an interior compartment with an open or partially open top and comprising a front wall with an exposed upper edge and at least one interior compartment divider; at least one bandage pack disposed in the interior compartment, wherein the bandage pack comprises at least one individually wrapped bandage; and at least one retaining clip, wherein the clip retains a bandage pack in the dispenser body.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system for dispensing bandages comprising:
a. a dispenser body defining an interior compartment with an open or partially open top and comprising a front wall with an exposed upper edge;
b. a bandage pack disposed in the interior compartment, the bandage pack comprising at least one individually wrapped bandage; and
c. a removable retaining clip, the retaining clip having the form of a channel adapted to reversibly interlock with the exposed upper edge of the front wall so that the retaining clip retains a bandage pack in the dispenser body.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the retaining clip, when interlocked with the upper edge of the front wall, allows removal of individual bandages from the interior compartment through the top of the dispenser body, but does not allow removal of a bandage pack disposed therein.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The system of claim 2, wherein the retaining clip reversibly interlocks with the dispenser body via interaction of a protrusion and a recess.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The system of claim 2, wherein the retaining clip interferes with removal of a bandage pack by fitting over the front wall of the dispenser body and a portion of the bandage pack simultaneously.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, comprising one through eleven retaining clips.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The system of claim 5, comprising six retaining clips.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the dispenser body defines an interior compartment comprising at least one interior compartment divider.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one divider is removable or repositionable.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one interior compartment divider creates a plurality of interior compartment divisions and the system comprises one bandage pack for each interior compartment division and one retaining clip for each bandage pack.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one divider is fixed.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the dispenser body comprises from one through eleven dividers.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the dispenser body comprises five dividers.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, comprising one through eleven bandage packs.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The system of claim 13, comprising six bandage packs.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein each said bandage pack comprises three through fifty individually wrapped bandages.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the interior compartment is substantially box-shaped.

### Claim 17 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the dispenser body further comprises a lid.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The system of claim 17, wherein the lid is at least partially transparent.

### Claim 19 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the front wall is at least partially transparent.