Appeal No. 95-1064
Application 07/995,347
The subject matter here claimed is a warming device of
the type having a heat-producing fluid in a fluid tight chamber.
The device is disclosed as a heat pack adapted to be wrapped
around an infant’s heel to warm the heel just prior to removing a
blood sample by pricking the heel.
Claims 10 and 32, the only independent claims on appeal,
are directed to the embodiment shown in Figures 5 and 6 of
appellant’s drawings. According to this embodiment, a pre-
attached flexible strip (14) is provided with adhesive (29, 30)
at its ends for securing the heat pack in place around the
infant’s heel. The adhesive is disposed on only one side of the
strip in the form of patches. Prior to wrapping the heat pack
around the infant’s heel, the flexible strip is folded around a
sealed edge of the heat pack such that the adhesive patches
contact opposed, chamber-defining walls of the pack to releasably
secure the ends of the strip to the walls of the pack, whereby
the strip is adapted to be detached from either one of the
opposed walls of the pack and then reattached to the opposite
wall of the pack after the pack is wrapped around the infant’s
heel to secure the pack in place.
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