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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph Frank Zygmont, Killingworth, CT (US);
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/500 ;
Abstract
A swab product is provided which includes a swab defined by an elongate stem and a fibrous absorbent covering such as cotton on at least one end of the stem. The fibrous absorbent covering is held together by a film-forming polymer. A treatment composition is dispersed onto the fibrous absorbent covering. Particularly preferred is a highly viscous hydrophobic treatment composition consisting of at least about 80% of petrolatum, which may serve to deliver actives such as bacitracin ointment or by itself serve as an occlusive therapeutic covering of skin to prevent infection.