Patent ID: 7448186

Claim:
An apparatus for forming a wound dressing for treating a wound on a mammalian body, the apparatus comprising: a movable frame, a stage provided on the frame, a first dispenser carried by the frame and structured for dispensing at least a portion of a sheet of dressing-forming material over the stage, a cutting tool, a tool movement mechanism carried by the frame, operatively coupled to the cutting tool and structured for providing selective movement of at least the cutting tool relative to the stage so that the cutting tool can selectively cut out from the dressing-forming material dispensed over the stage, a selectively shaped portion of the dressing-forming material so as to thereby define a wound dressing of a desired shape for treating a corresponding wound, a reservoir of moisturizing solution, and a second dispenser carried by the frame and structured to selectively apply the moisturizing solution to a targeted portion of the wound dressing to thereby selectively moisturize the targeted portion of the wound dressing.