(under the class definition) Subject matter wherein means are provided which prevents injury to a body portion, protects or covers a wound upon or under body skin, or promotes healing of an injured body portion.
(1) Note. The injury could be to the skin or to the tissue layers under the skin.
(2) Note. Class 424 provides for bandages, bandage applicators or body dressing which contain bio-affecting, body treating, or drug compositions with at most a randomly impregnated base material. For example, Class 128 takes a base material or substrate wherein particular portions thereof are impregnated with a Class 424 compositions.
(3) Note. Class 424 provides a process of using a bandaging device wherein the process is at most single or plural steps of merely applying one or more Class 424 compositions to a wound site.
(4) Note. A composition containing a solid synthetic polymer used to form a barrier or film layer on a wound site in order to promote healing thereof is properly classifiable in Class 424.
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60+, for injury support means coverings.
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128, Surgery,
82.1, for light, thermal, or electrical applying devices.
424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions,
43, 47 for effervescent of pressurized fluid containing bandaging material intended for application to the body; subclasses 78 to 83 for a solid synthetic organic polymer bandaging material applicable to the body (e.g., a liquid material which cures or drys in situ; subclasses 443 to 449 for a web or sheet coated or impregnated with a medicinal composition in the form of a bandage.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles,
175+, 190, 193, and 196+ for a stock material composite in the form of a single or plural layer web or sheet and for such a product embodying a component of mechanically intertwined strands (e.g., woven, knit, or nonwoven).
442, Fabric (Woven, Knitted, or Nonwoven Textile or Cloth, etc.),
181+, and 304+ for a woven or knit fabric.
523, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers,
105, 118 for unmedicated compositions used in the treatment of wounds or animal tissue. A surgical adhesive composition to be coated on a fabric, gauze, tape, etc. is classifiable in Class 523 subclass 111.
604, Surgery, 304+, for a bandage, pad or shield placed upon the body for sustained treatment thereof; subclasses 358 to 402 for generically absorbent subcomponents of bandages (e.g., pads, fibers, substances used to make an absorbent pad, etc.) or of body fluids in general (e.g., tampons, diapers, sanitary napkins, catamenial devices, etc.).
606, Surgery,
213, 221 for devices used in operative surgery to join a wound or incision's edges or lips together.
