Patent ID: 8231816
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: A61B,A61F,B29C,B29L,F42B,F42D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of forming medical wraps for delivering medical functions, the method comprising: introducing a sheet-form, flexible substrate into a gap defined by a mold roll and an opposed cooperating member, the mold roll defining an array of blind cavities shaped to form fastener elements or fastener element stems; extruding resin into the gap to fill the cavities and commingle with surface features of the substrate, thereby forming a band of resin extending along a surface of the substrate, the band of resin being narrower than the substrate, leaving a portion of the substrate surface exposed, the band of resin having an array of fastener element sterns extending integrally therefrom; bonding a strip of resin to the substrate so as to be spaced apart from the band of resin across a width of the substrate; securing a field of exposed fibers to the substrate; cutting across the width of the substrate to form individual wraps, each wrap of a length sufficient to extend about a human limb and having a segment of the band of resin extending thereacross; and providing the wrap with a medical function delivery pouch for containing materials selected to provide medical treatment to living tissue when the wrap is wrapped about the tissue.