Patent ID: 9566183
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A nasal strip for opening the nasal passageways, the nasal strip having features that include: an external portion that extends for the entire length of the nasal strip, the external portion being formed from a flexible plastic material, the external portion having a central section and a left end section and a right end section with the central section having a smaller width or the same width as each end section; an adhesive coating that covers the interior surface of each end section of the external portion of the nasal strip with the central section not having an adhesive coating on its interior surface; and a non-adhesive tab that extends in a generally outward direction from an external boundary of either one or both end sections of the nasal strip, the tab being attached to one or both of the right and left end sections so as to facilitate the removal of the nasal strip from the user's nose; wherein the tab is in the general form of a semi-annulus having an outside radius R and an inside radius r where the outside radius R has a length that is between ½ to ⅕ the width of the end sections of the nasal strip.