EP0702343A1 - Kennzeichnungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0702343A1
EP0702343A1 EP95306464A EP95306464A EP0702343A1 EP 0702343 A1 EP0702343 A1 EP 0702343A1 EP 95306464 A EP95306464 A EP 95306464A EP 95306464 A EP95306464 A EP 95306464A EP 0702343 A1 EP0702343 A1 EP 0702343A1
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base sheet
identification
identification device
bands
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Philip George Warne
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Seidl and Partner GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/005—Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person

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  • This invention relates to identification devices, and in particular to devices for the identification of persons. Even more particularly, but not exclusively, it relates to devices for the identification of persons entering a secure area, or patients in hospital such as babies immediately after birth and up to the time of leaving hospital and being taken home by their parents.
  • a known device of this kind known as a write-on ID band, comprises a strap of a tear-proof plastics material having an area on which information may be hand written such as a security cleared entrant's or patient's name or mother's and baby's names as the case may be, date of birth (and time in the case of a baby), location or hospital number and ward, and any other relevant information such as name of the event or consultant.
  • the strap has head and tail ends, the head end having securable stud attached thereto, and the tail end having a plurality of spaced holes therein, whereby the strap may be passed around a limb of the entrant, patient, mother or baby and the stud then passed through an appropriate one of the holes before being secured in such a way as to prevent removal by hand.
  • This forms the strap into a loop around the limb, which loop is of a size preventing the strap being passed over the hand or foot and thereby being removed from the entrant, patient, mother or baby.
  • straps with identical information may be placed on each of them for added security.
  • Such ID bands are generally satisfactory, but errors can readily occur in the writing of the information on the bands. This can lead to the information on a band not matching the data in the hospital records relating to the relevant patient, mother or baby, and to the errors mentioned above.
  • the provision of the securable stud is relatively costly.
  • the invention provides an identification device comprising an elongate base sheet of a computer-printable material, the base sheet having spaced parallel separation lines extending laterally thereof to define an identification band between successive separation lines, each band having an identification region on which information may be printed by computer and head and tail end regions between the identification region and the opposed longitudinal edges of the base sheet.
  • the base sheet may have feeder holes therein adjacent each longitudinal edge, and may be of a natural or man-made sheet or fibre cloth material which is resistant to tearing, such as cotton, satin or nylon.
  • the separation lines may be lines of perforations.
  • An adhesive may be applied to the base sheet in the region of the head ends of the bands, and a backing sheet may cover the adhesive.
  • the adhesive may be applied in the form of a double sided self-adhesive tape having one side thereof secured to the base sheet and having the backing sheet attached to the other side.
  • the backing sheet, and in the latter case the tape may have perforations in register with the feeder holes in the base sheet.
  • the backing sheet may be a peel-off silicone set.
  • a plurality of lines may be printed on the base sheet to extend longitudinally thereof in the region of the tail ends of the bands, the lines being mutually parallel and spaced laterally of the base sheet.
  • an identification device 10 comprising an elongate base sheet 11 of a computer printable material with the characteristic feeder holes 12 adjacent each longitudinal edge 13.
  • the base sheet is of a strong, tear resistant, fibrous cloth of man-made or natural fibre such as cotton, satin or nylon.
  • Extending laterally of the base sheet 11 are a plurality of separation lines 14 in the form of lines of perforations. Between successive separation lines 14 is defined an identification band 15, and such bands 15 can subsequently be separated from each other by tearing along the lines of perforations 14.
  • the base sheet 11 may be fed by means of the feeder holes 12 through a security or hospital ward's computer and printer (not shown) so as to have printed thereon in an identification region 16 of at least one band 15 the information 17 relating to an entrant, patient or mother and baby. In the latter case two successive bands 15 may be printed with identical information 17.
  • the standard headings of the information 17 may be pre-printed on the base sheet 11 prior to the identification device 10 being fed to the computer, or may be printed by the computer at the time of printing the specific information 17 relating to the entrant, patient or mother and baby.
  • head 18 and tail 19 end regions Between the identification region 16 of the bands 15 and the opposed longitudinal edges 13 of the base sheet 11 are head 18 and tail 19 end regions.
  • a double sided self adhesive tape 20 Secured to the head region 18 is a double sided self adhesive tape 20 to which a backing sheet 21 is attached.
  • the tape 20 and backing sheet 21 have perforations 22 in register with those 14 in the base sheet 11.
  • a layer of adhesive may be applied directly to the base sheet 11 and the perforated backing sheet 21 attached to the adhesive layer.
  • the backing sheet 21 may be a peel-off silicone set, and the adhesive must have a sufficient bonding strength to prohibit the detachment of the base sheet 11 from the tape 20 or from itself after bonding.
  • the adhesive may be a water based or acrylic adhesive.
  • the band 15 After a band 15 has been printed and detached from the base sheet 11, the band 15 is wrapped around a limb, e.g. a wrist 23, of an entrant, patient, mother or baby.
  • the backing sheet 21 is removed, and the tail end 19 of the band 15 is secured to the adhesive tape 20 and hence the head end 18 of the band 15 to form a loop which is of a size so as to prevent the band 15 from being passed over the hand 24 of the entrant, patient, mother or baby.
  • Any surplus tail end 19 of the band 15 may be cut off using the lines 25 marked thereon as a guide.
  • the lines 25, which were part of those which extended longitudinally of the base sheet 11 and were mutually parallel and spaced laterally of the base sheet 11, now extend laterally of the band 15.
  • the head 18 and tail 19 ends of a band 15 may be secured to each other by means of a securable stud as in the prior art case, or by means of a staple.
  • a securable stud as in the prior art case
  • a staple in the former case a plurality of holes (not shown) would be provided in and spaced along each tail end 19, although such holes create weaknesses which may permit snapping of the band by a strong person.
  • an identification band may be applied to an entrant to a security zone, a patient, or a mother and baby which minimises the risk of wrong information being written on the band and avoids the possibility of such information being different from that held on the security or hospital ward's computer. Furthermore the risk of miss-reading badly written information is avoided. The possibility of a person altering or producing a false identification band is also avoided or at least minimised.
  • the perforated edges will not damage or irritate the skin, as can occur with the plastics material of the known bands, and the preferred embodiments of the invention, incorporating adhesively bonding the head 18 and tail 19 ends of the band 15, provide less expensive identification bands, on which the information is more durable and water resistant, than the prior known writ-on ID bands.

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EP95306464A 1994-09-16 1995-09-14 Kennzeichnungsvorrichtung Withdrawn EP0702343A1 (de)

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GB9418708 1994-09-16
GB9418708A GB9418708D0 (en) 1994-09-16 1994-09-16 Identification device

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AU (1) AU3067795A (de)
CA (1) CA2158385A1 (de)
GB (1) GB9418708D0 (de)
ZA (1) ZA957776B (de)

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US8075210B2 (en) * 2006-01-19 2011-12-13 Seiko Epson Corporation Device for producing tags for patient wristbands, a system for producing tags for patient wristbands, and a print medium

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US4285146A (en) * 1976-07-06 1981-08-25 Precision Dynamics Corporation Tamper-resistant identification device
GB2071605A (en) * 1979-07-13 1981-09-23 Globe Printing Co Ltd Indicating means
FR2566653A1 (fr) * 1984-06-13 1986-01-03 Moore Business Forms Inc Bande d'identification a usage hospitalier, imprime-support d'une telle bande
EP0375639A2 (de) * 1988-12-22 1990-06-27 Tesi Elettronica E Sistemi Informativi S.R.L. Identitätskarte für Gesundheitsgebrauch
US4991337A (en) * 1988-07-28 1991-02-12 Solon Laurie R Inexpensive disposable identification bracelet
US5026084A (en) * 1990-09-14 1991-06-25 Gail Pasfield Color care coded patient identification system
WO1994011190A1 (en) * 1992-11-09 1994-05-26 Precision Dynamics Corporation Identification bracelets and manufacturing thereof

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4285146A (en) * 1976-07-06 1981-08-25 Precision Dynamics Corporation Tamper-resistant identification device
GB2071605A (en) * 1979-07-13 1981-09-23 Globe Printing Co Ltd Indicating means
FR2566653A1 (fr) * 1984-06-13 1986-01-03 Moore Business Forms Inc Bande d'identification a usage hospitalier, imprime-support d'une telle bande
US4991337A (en) * 1988-07-28 1991-02-12 Solon Laurie R Inexpensive disposable identification bracelet
EP0375639A2 (de) * 1988-12-22 1990-06-27 Tesi Elettronica E Sistemi Informativi S.R.L. Identitätskarte für Gesundheitsgebrauch
US5026084A (en) * 1990-09-14 1991-06-25 Gail Pasfield Color care coded patient identification system
WO1994011190A1 (en) * 1992-11-09 1994-05-26 Precision Dynamics Corporation Identification bracelets and manufacturing thereof

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US8075210B2 (en) * 2006-01-19 2011-12-13 Seiko Epson Corporation Device for producing tags for patient wristbands, a system for producing tags for patient wristbands, and a print medium

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