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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
A Frank Baldwin, Greensboro, NC (US);
Assignee:
Burlington Industries, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428289 ; 428288 ; 428452 ; 427-2 ; 604356 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to an absorbent fabric suitable for use as a surgical drape, dressing or the like which is used to isolate a surgical incision site and at the same time provides an absorbent antimicrobial field which becomes substantive on the fabric and services to destroy migrating and cross-contaminating bacteria, fungi and algae. Procedures for producing this fabric are also disclosed. Such fabric is highly wettable, bioactive and serves to lower the amount of microbial contamination while lowering the risk of postoperative infection.