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Ointment applicator
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Inventors: Abplanalp, George;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Pellegrino; Stephen C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Patalidis; Claude A.
A medication ointment applicator comprising a length of plastic film to which is attached a backing band made of a length of elastic mesh material. The ointment is applied to the surface of the plastic film which is engaged with the skin of the user, the elastic material backing band being wrapped around, for example, the user's ankle or wrist such as to hold the plastic film in firm engagement with the skin for absorption of the medication ointment through the skin. Preferably, the plastic film is provided with a scale enabling the user to measure the correct amount of ointment to be applied as a result of measuring the length of a ribbon of ointment expelled from a dispenser tube, and the surface of the plastic film to which the ointment is applied is textured, in one embodiment of the invention, by ridges being formed on the surface, to help contain the ointment within the edges of the plastic film. In another embodiment of the invention, the plastic film is surrounded by peripheral strips of suitable material that prevents excessive lateral flow of the medicated ointment; such strips being secured to the elastic material as by sewing or by cementation to such material. The backing band of elastic mesh material in one embodiment of the invention has a hook or loop material patch on one end, and lateral strips of complementary hook or loop material at the other end, such that the backing band of elastic mesh material can be wrapped tight and held in position by applying the hook or loop material patch against a portion of the complementary hook or loop material strips. In another embodiment of the invention, a hook-like fastener, applied to one end of the length of elastic material, engages the elastic material when the applicator is applied to a person's body. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to FIGS.
1-6 of the drawing, a medication ointment applicator bandage 10 according to one embodiment of the invention comprises an elongated sheet 12 of transparent or translucent plastic film such as ABS, cellulosic or fluoro plastics, polyamide, polyester, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene or ethylene copolymers.
The sheet 12 of plastic film is attached at one end to a backing band 14 of elastic mesh material either by being sewn or cemented directly onto it, or through the intermediary of a short band 16 of fabric, as shown.
The free end of the band 14 of elastic mesh material is provided for example with a patch 18 of plastic hook material, such as sold under the mark Velcro, while the back side of the elastic mesh material is provided with a pair of narrow strips 20 of loop-type material fastener attached, such as by sewing, along each lateral edge of the elastic mesh material band 14.
The sheet 12 of plastic film has its rear surface provided with a printed scale or indicia 22 disposed along the centerline of the sheet, and visible through the transparent or translucent plastic film.
The front surface of the sheet 12 of plastic film is textured, for example and as illustrated, by having a plurality of parallel longitudinally extending ridges 24 embossed thereon, such as to project above the front surface, as best shown at FIG.
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Referring now to FIGS.
7-9 of the drawing, a modified medication ointment applicator bandage 110, according to another embodiment of the invention, comprises an elongated sheet 112 of transparent or translucent plastic film that may be the same material as the film 12 of FIG.
1, described hereinbefore.
The transparent film or sheet 112 is attached at both ends either by sewing or by being cemented directly to a backing band 114 of elastic mesh material like the band 14 of FIG.
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One end of the backing band 114 is provided with a conventional hook-like fastener 116 that engages the band 114 to secure the band in a desired position on the body of a person when the band 114 is applied thereto
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