Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Head or face protector
Patent
1995-10-23
1997-03-11
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Head or face protector
128865, 128897, A61F 1100
Patent
active
056091648
ABSTRACT:
A method for forming an earplug containment device comprising providing at least one thin-walled, hollow sleeve having an inside diameter less than the diameter of the human ear canal, compressing a slow-recovery earplug having a diameter greater than that of the human ear canal to a cross-sectional size less than that of said sleeve, and inserting said compressed earplug into said sleeve.
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Dyrud James F.
Elstran Gerald V.
Olson Paul E.
Brown Michael A.
Griswold Gary L.
Kirn Walter N.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
Rogers James A.
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