Styled much like those miniature-condom finger coverings, except with an absorbent liner in the tip and adhesive elsewhere, these roll-on fingertip bandages will give you the coverage you need to protect a papercut or a hangnail, without the annoying side points or tendency to peel off.

May work best with cloth, marked with a "this side up" indicator so that the weave orientation will allow unhindered finger bending.
-- Freefall, May 02 2007

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Shameless self-acknowledgement. [theleopard, May 17 2007]

How does the rolled-up adhesive bandage *not* fuse to itself before use?
-- nuclear hobo, May 02 2007


Very good. (+) It would not be hard to roll a release strip up with the inside lip of the bandage.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 02 2007


// those miniature-condom finger coverings // mwahahaha! ... er, the word you're looking for is 'finger cot'.
-- lurch, May 02 2007


+ sounds sensible.
-- xandram, May 02 2007


//It would not be hard to roll a release strip up with the inside lip of the bandage.// This requires a wee bit mre consideration. Assuing a tubular release strip rolled up inside a cylindrical bandage, the release strip will have to be flexible enough to stretch through the deformation necessary to roll into a tube. When unrolled, the release strip is a cylinder inside a cylinder of adhesive, not particularly easy to remove.
-- nuclear hobo, May 02 2007


I admit, the rolling of a release strip inside the bandage may pose a challenge. There are other options available.

You could coat the exterior of the fabric with a non-stick substance.

You could use a moisture-activated adhesive.

etc...

Edit:
The release strip wouldn't have to end up on the inside. The strip could actually be on the -outside- of the bandage, so that it just slips off after the bandage is rolled on.
-- Freefall, May 02 2007


Just make relief cuts in the release strip, like so...

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...and the edges would overlap inside the roll.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 02 2007


[+] great idea. Patentable even.
-- theleopard, May 17 2007



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