Patent ID: 8881747

Claim:
A method of manufacturing and using a hood arrangement comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of unseparated hoods that are formed into a chain at a manufacturing site; constructing the plurality of unseparated hoods at the manufacturing site having two common elastic threads that pass through and which are guided in each of hoods through meshes in the peripheral region of the respective hoods; constructing and arranging said plurality of unseparated hoods together to form said chain with every two adjacent hoods of the plurality of hoods being joined together at a joining region; forming the joining region by a melting or bonding process of the two elastic threads with one another, which form surrounding edge threads, the joining region forming a weakness between every two adjacent hoods; the step of constructing the plurality of unseparated hoods at the manufacturing site including all the hoods being unseparated and formed in one of a continuous roll and accordion arrangement; providing a use site wherein the hoods are used by the application to the head of a subject; and separating the chain into individual hoods at the use site, different from the manufacturing site; said separating step being between adjacent hoods at the joining region by means of a breaking at the joining region at the weakness.