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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2018
Puritan Medical Products Company, Llc, Guilford, ME (US);
Terry Young, Guilford, ME (US);
Timothy Templet, Guilford, ME (US);
Paul Dube, Guilford, ME (US);
Todd Dixon, Guilford, ME (US);
Armand F. Lewis, Mattapoisett, MA (US);
Yong K. Kim, Dartmouth, MA (US);
PURITAN MEDICAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, LLC, Gulford, ME (US);
Abstract
Swabs, materials and methods of making the same include randomly arranged sea-island bicomponent fibers which have randomly splayed terminal ends. According to certain embodiments, swabs are provide which include an applicator, and sea-island bicomponent fibers attached to the applicator, wherein at least about 70% of the fibers comprise randomly splayed terminal ends of the islands of said bicomponent fibers along a length of about 45% or less from said ends, and wherein the bicomponent fibers comprise 10-3000 island parts per fiber.