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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1985
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1983
Craig Barson, Skipton, GB;
Thomas Denny, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc., New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Abstract
A surgical swab comprises a warp knitted body portion (1) and an integrally warp knitted handling tape (3). Both the body portion and the handling tape are formed as two superimposed layers on a twin needle bed knitting machine, the respective longitudinal and/or laterally extending edges of each layer being joined by interknitting. The swab may be cut from a continuous swab strip which is formed by continuously knitting a length of body portion fabric and of handling tape fabric with a lateral band of the fabrics being knitted together at intervals. Individual swabs are separated from the strip by cutting through the lateral band.