Disposable unitary surgical drape

Claim 1

A prefolded, disposable, surgical drape adapted to be unfolded in situ on a patient without requiring that the drape be lifted from the patient or that the surface of the drape which comes in contact with the patient be touched during the unfolding procedure, said drape including in combination: an abdominal cover comprising a generally rectangular sheet including a major portion and minor portion separated by a fold line parallel to the longitudinal axis with the minor portion overlying the front surface of the major portion and the sheet fan-folded along lines parallel to the transverse axis dividing the cover into two pluralities of panels overlying the top surface thereof to form a partially folded cover; a tail sheet comprising a generally rectangular sheet of material aligned with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the abdominal cover and secured to the partially folded cover along the top edge of said tail sheet, said tail sheet longitudinal edges originally extending beyond the transverse edges of said partially folded abdomen cover and fan-folded along lines parallel to its longitudinal axis so as to produce two pluralities of longitudinally extending tail sheet panels, the outermost edges of said longitudinal panels being substantially aligned with the transverse edges of said partially folded abdomen cover; a pair of leggings, each of said leggings being secured to said tail sheet and abdominal cover proximal the interface of said cover and sheet, said leggings each comprising a generally rectangular sheet of material having a longitudinal axis angularly disposed with respect to both said abdomen cover and tail sheet longitudinal axes, said leggings being at least partially folded along with said tail sheet into said longitudinal panels; said drape further comprising a plurality of folds parallel to the transverse axis of said tail sheet dividing said tail sheet and leggings into a plurality of sections, at least one fold line extending across the partially folded abdomen cover parallel to said tail sheet transverse fold lines dividing said partially folded abdomen cover into a top section and a bottom section, said partially folded so that said top section overlies said bottom section and at least one section of said tail sheet and the remaining sections of said tail sheet plurality being folded to overlie both said top and bottom abdomen cover sections.