Adhesive bandage for personal use

Claim 1

An adhesive bandage used personally to cover a minor injury on a human body, especially on a finger or a toe thereof, which is particularly suitable for application with only one hand and which comprises (i) a backing strip having an adhesive inside, (ii) a pad fixed to a substantially central portion of the inside of the backing strip for directly covering a minor injury, (iii) a protecting means for protecting both the pad and the inside of the backing strip, said protecting means being removably attached, at its opposed end portions, to two sides of the inside of the backing strip opposed to each other with the pad between, (iv) said protecting means having a central, greater part not attached to any portion of the backing strip not to the pad, but folded flatwise so as to make the entire bandage a relatively flat product for convenience of sale of the bandage to customers as a compact product, (v) said central greater part of said protecting means being capable of being unfolded and a having a sufficient length to provide, together with the backing strip, a substantially completely enclosed, ample space through which a finger or a toe with a minor injury to be covered can be inserted when said central greater part is in the state of being unfolded, and (vi) the backing strip being capable of being applied on the injury to cover the injury exactly with the pad, and said protecting means being capable of being pulled in different directions in a successive manner after the insertion of an injured finger or toe through said space and the covering of its injury with the pad, thereby attaching said opposed two sides of the inside of the backing strip to an area of the finger or toe other than its area of the injury while simultaneously removing said opposed end portions of said protecting means from said opposed two sides of the inside of the backing strip.