GOWN WITH SECURE FIT AND COMFORT FEATURE

• US 20090320177A1
• Filed: 06/30/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Inventors: Lin, Brian, Houde, Ajay
• Application Number:
  US12/164,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20090320177A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/114
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 7/00 Cuffs A41B1/00, A41B3/00 take precedence; cuff links A44B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1209 Surgeons' gowns or dresses
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/80 Friction or grip reinforcement
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 2201/12 Shape memory

Abstract

A protective garment, such as a surgical gown, includes a garment body defining sleeves. A cuff may be secured at respective ends of the sleeves. A circumferentially extending coating is disposed on the sleeves beginning at the sleeve or cuff. The coating has a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over the coating is inhibited from rolling or sliding back over the coating and down the sleeve. The coating may be formed of a low-tack surface modifier and may include a dye or colorant that may be used to indicate the fluid protection level of, for example, a surgical gown. Additionally, a second coating of a phase change and/or shape memory material may be applied to the protective garment.

Claims

1. A protective garment, comprising:

a garment body, said garment body defining a main body, a neck portion, and sleeves;

a cuff secured at respective ends of said sleeves;

a circumferentially extending first coating of a first low-tack material on said sleeves, said first coating comprising a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over said coating is inhibited from rolling or sliding back over said coating;

wherein said sleeves are essentially free of a circumferentially extending polymeric band having a raised profile; and

a second coating on at least a portion of the protective garment, said second coating comprising at least one shape memory material, phase change material, or combinations thereof.

2. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said garment body is a surgical gown.

3. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said first coating further comprises a dye or colorant.

4. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said first coating is continuous around said sleeves.

5. The protective garment as in claim 4, wherein said first coating comprises at least one continuous ring of said low-tack material.

6. The protective garment as in claim 4, wherein said first coating comprises a plurality of rings of said low-tack material.

7. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said first coating is discontinuous around said sleeves.

8. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said first coating defines a “

Z”

shape around said sleeves.

9. The protective garment as in claim 1, wherein said low-tack material is an adhesive.

10. The protective garment of claim 1, wherein the second coating is located on a surface of the garment opposite the surface containing the first coating.

11. The protective garment of claim 10, wherein the second coating extends circumferentially on the surface of the garment opposite the surface containing the first coating.

12. The protective garment of claim 1, wherein the second coating at least partially overlaps the first coating.

13. The protective garment of claim 1, wherein the second coating is applied to at least a portion of the main body, neck portion, sleeves, or combinations thereof of the garment body

14. A protective garment, comprising:

a garment body, said garment body defining a main body, a neck portion, and sleeves;

a circumferentially extending first coating on said sleeves from a distal end of said sleeves, said coating comprising a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over said first coating is inhibited from rolling or sliding back over said first coating, wherein said sleeves are essentially free of a circumferentially extending polymeric band having a raised profile; and

a second coating on at least a portion of the protective garment, said second coating comprising at least one shape memory material, phase change material, or combinations thereof.

15. The protective garment as in claim 14, wherein said first coating is a surface modifier material applied to a surface of said sleeves.

16. The protective garment as in claim 14, wherein said first coating further comprises a dye or colorant.

17. The protective garment as in claim 16, wherein said surface modifier is an adhesive.

18. The protective garment as in claim 14, wherein said first coating is continuous around said sleeves.

19. The protective garment as in claim 14, wherein said garment body is a surgical gown.

20. The protective garment as in claim 14, further comprising a cuff configured at the distal end of said sleeves, said first coating disposed proximal to said cuffs.

21. The protective garment of claim 14, wherein the second coating is located on a surface of the garment opposite the surface containing the first coating.

22. The protective garment of claim 21, wherein the second coating extends circumferentially on the surface of the garment opposite the surface containing the first coating.

23. The protective garment of claim 14, wherein the second coating at least partially overlaps the first coating.

24. The protective garment of claim 14, wherein the second coating is applied to at least a portion of the main body, neck portion, sleeves, or combinations thereof of the garment body.

25. A surgical gown, comprising:

a gown body with sleeves;

a cuff secured at respective ends of said sleeves;

between about 10 and about 30 gsm of an amorphous polyalphaolefin polymer coating extending circumferentially on said sleeves proximal to said cuff such that an end of a glove pulled over said coating is inhibited from rolling or sliding back over said coating, wherein said sleeves are essentially free of a circumferentially extending polymeric band having a raised profile; and

a second coating on at least a portion of the gown body, said second coating comprising at least one shape memory material, phase change material, or combinations thereof.