Surgical sponge

Claim 1

A SURGICAL SPONGE FREE OF EXPOSED CUT EDGED FORMED SUBSTANTIALLY OF WOVEN FABRIC COMPRISING A BLEACHED MULTILAYERED UNCREASED FOLDED STRUCTURE FORMED OF BULKED, OPEN-MESH WOVEN FABRIC, THE THREADS OF SAID FABRIC BEING DISTORTED INTO SINUOUS AND TORTUOUS CONFIGURATIONS EMPHASIZING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHARACCTER OF SAID FABRIC WHEN COMPARED TO THE SUBSTANTIALLY PLA NAR CHARACTER OF ORDINARY SURGICAL GAUZE, AND CONSTITUTING MEANS WHEREBY SAID FABRIC IS BULKED, SAID SPONGE HAVING A WEIGHT PER UNIT VOLUME LESS THAN THAT OF SURGICAL GAUZE SPONGES FORMED OF SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR GAUZE AND HAVING THE SAME WEIGHT PER UNIT AREA, SAID SPONGE BEING FORMED FROM A LENGTHWISEFOLDED, THREE TO SIX PLY LENGTH OF SAID BULKED OPEN-MESH WOVEN FABRIC FOLDED FROM BOTH ENDS SO THAT THE END EDGES ARE IN ABUTTING TO CLOSELY ADJACENT RELATIONSHIP TO FORM A RECTANGULAR BLANK, SAID SPONGE COMPRISING THE CENTRAL PORTION AND INWARDLY FOLDED OPPOSITE CORNER PORTIONS OF SAID BLANK, THE FIRST FOLDED PAIR OF OPPOSITE CORNER PORTIONS OF SAID BLAND HAVING SIDE EDGES IN ABUTTING TO CLOSELY ADJACENT RELATIONSHIP CENNTRALLY OF SAID SPONGE, THE SECOND FOLDED PAIR OF OPPOSITE CORNER PORTIONS OF SAID BLAND PARTIALLY OVERLYING THE FIRST FOLDED CORNER PORTIONS AND PARTIALLY OVERLAPPING EACH OTHER CENTRALLY OF SAID SPONGE THUS FORMING A SPONGE WITH FOUR MAJOR AND TWO MINOR SIDE EDGES, AREAS OF SAID SPONGE HAVING GREATER THICKNESS EXTENDING SALONG THE LINE FROM THE TWO OPPOSITE SPONGE CORNERS AT THE JUNCTION OF TWO MAJOR SIDE EDGES AND WHICH INCLUDE FOLDED EDGES MADE BY FOLDING ADJACENNT CORNERS OF THE BLANK INWARDLY, THE FOUR REMAINING SPONGE CORNERS EACH BEING AT THE JUNCTION OF A MINOR SIDE EDGE AND A MAJOR SIDE EDGE WHERE THE FOLDED CORNER PORTIONS OF THE BLANK DO NOT OVERLAP.