Skin-Enhancing Glove and Method of Manufacture

• US 20120192336A1
• Filed: 04/12/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shen Wei (USA) Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Shen Wei (USA) Incorporated
• Inventors: Chou, Belle L.
• Application Number:
  US13/445,889
• Publication Number:
  US 20120192336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/169
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/0055 Plastic or rubber gloves
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/0058 Three-dimensional gloves
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/32 Therapeutic use
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/52 Disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/305 using layered materials
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/60 Devices for cleaning, washing, drying or powdering
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/30 Compounds of undetermined constitution extracted from natural sources, e.g. Aloe Vera
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/452 Lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2300/606 Coatings
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 31/16 Biologically active materials, e.g. therapeutic substances A61L31/047 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 41/14 Dipping a core B29C41/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 71/0009 using liquids, e.g. solvents, swelling agents spectacle cases, e.g. for cleaning contact lenses A45C11/04; disinfecting or sterilising contact lenses A61L12/00, using liquid substances A61L2/20; cleaning involving the use of liquid in general B08B3/00; for hydrating contact lenses B29D11/00067
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/2525 Coating or impregnation functions biologically [e.g., insect repellent, antiseptic, insecticide, bactericide, etc.]

Abstract

A protective glove includes a coating of dehydrated material on its inside surface. The dehydrated material, in contact with perspiration from a hand wearing the glove, soothes the hand. Some methods of placing the coating onto the inside surface of the glove include spraying or dipping with a solution that includes Aloe Vera.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing an article for protecting a hand, the method comprising the acts of:

forming a disposable glove that is fluid impermeable;

coating an interior surface of the glove with a skin anti-inflammatory substance and a liquid carrier; and

removing the liquid carrier while on the glove to form a dehydrated non-powdered dry coating of skin anti-inflammatory substance attached to the interior surface of the glove, wherein the skin anti-inflammatory substance having an affiliation with the interior surface of the glove through a non-covalent force provided by the removing of the liquid carrier, so that the skin anti-inflammatory substance contacts the hand of a person during wearing the glove, the dry coating dissociable from the interior surface by absorbing moisture from perspiration during wearing forming a moistened skin anti-inflammatory substance.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the disposable glove is made from a natural rubber latex.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the disposable glove is formed as a single-layer glove.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the liquid carrier is water.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the coating step comprises spraying the skin anti-inflammatory substance and the liquid carrier onto the interior surface.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the interior surface of the glove is treated with chlorine prior to coating the interior surface with a skin anti-inflammatory substance and a liquid carrier.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the removing step comprises evaporating the liquid carrier from the interior surface of the glove.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of turning the glove right side out, so that the dehydrated dry coating of skin anti-inflammatory substance contacts the hand of a person when wearing the glove.

9. A method of manufacturing an article for protecting a hand, the method comprising the acts of:

forming a disposable glove that is fluid-impermeable;

applying an aqueous solution of a skin anti-inflammatory substance to an interior surface of the glove; and

removing the liquid from the aqueous solution on the glove to form a dehydrated non-powdered dry coating of skin anti-inflammatory substance attached to the interior surface of the glove, so that the skin anti-inflammatory substance contacts the hand of a person when wearing the glove, and wherein the act of removing the liquid providing a non-covalent force of affiliation between the skin anti-inflammatory substance and the interior surface of the glove.