Actual Definition of the term: Hopf Band?

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Sorry if this is too trivial:

I need an actual working definition of the term: Hopf band. I see references to it

in many searches, but never an actual precise definition. All I know so far is that it

is a Seifert surface for the Hopf link ( the disjoint union of two unknots $S^1$) , but this obviously

does not narrow things enough to an actual definition, since there is more than one

Seifert surface for every unknot. I've spent around an hour looking for a precise working definition.

How do people actually find these definitions?

Thanks.

EDIT: I found a "definition" ( a picture, aka, 1000 words ) in page 135 of: http://books.google.com/books?id=mbXi8kC7DIMC&pg=PA134&dq=hopf+band&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GydsU8YR6sewBPOpgYgG&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=hopf%20band&f=false

I did not know one could do a search over all books. I'll try to remember that.