Non-slip material for the hand

• US 4,316,926 A
• Filed: 01/25/1979
• Issued: 02/23/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bernard Kaminstein
• Original Assignee: Bernard Kaminstein
• Inventors: Kaminstein, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, James J.
• Application Number:
  US06/006,460
• Time in Patent Office: 1,125 Days
• Field of Search: 428/245, 428/296, 428/247, 428/253, 428/254, 428/255, 428/262, 428/311, 428/343, 428/354, 428/355, 428/131, 428/137, 428/138, 428/252
• US Class Current: 428/137
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/744 Non-slip, anti-slip
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/266 characterised by an apertured layer, the apertures going through the whole thickness of the layer, e.g. expanded metal, perforated layer, slit layer regular cells B32B3/12
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/18 characterised by features of a layer of foamed material
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/24 one layer being a fibrous or filamentary layer
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/245 another layer next to it being a foam layer
• CPC Class Codes: D06N 3/04 with macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24322 Composite web or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24331 including nonapertured component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249955 Void-containing component partially impregnated with adjacent component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249981 Plural void-containing components
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/28 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and having an adhesive outermost layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2848 Three or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2878 including addition polymer from unsaturated monomer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2883 including addition polymer of diene monomer [e.g., SBR, SIS, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/3073 Strand material is core-spun [not sheath-core bicomponent strand]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/3089 Cross-sectional configuration of strand material is specified
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/3366 Woven fabric is coated, impregnated, or autogenously bonded

Abstract

A non-slip material is disclosed which is useful as a handle grip covering, which comprises a curvilinear surface of a cellular or porous web of material, which curvilinear surface is coated with a tackifier resin. Said layer being optionally carried by a supporting substrate such as paper, film, metal or preferably a vinyl foam and a wear resistant and tacky coating on at least the upper surfaces of the strands or walls of said cellular layer.

Claims

1. A non-slip material for the hand comprising, a web being formed with a plurality of pores, wherein said pores are sufficiently large so that the flesh of the hand will press into said pores when pressed against one surface of said web;

a coating comprising a tackifier being disposed on said one surface of the web but not on opposed web portions forming the inner periphery of said pores, so that when the hand presses onto the one surface, part of the flesh of hand is free to move into the pores while another part on the hand is retained on the one surface by said coating; and

a supporting substrate, and means to bond the opposite surface of the web to said substrate;

said substrate being formed so as to engage a handle to be gripped and wherein said substrate is compressible, so that the part of the flesh of the hand in moving into the pores compresses the substrate and provides a slip-resistant grip to the handle.

2. The non-slip material is defined by claim 1, said coating comprising a resin and a plasticizer for the resin wherein the plasticizer renders the resin tacky.

3. The non-slip material as defined by claim 2, said coating being disposed comprising only on one surface of the web so as not to fill the pores.

4. The non-slip material as defined by claim 1, said web comprising perforated paper.

5. The non-slip material as defined by claim 1, said web material being plastic.

6. The non-slip material as defined by claim 2, said web material comprising interwoven fibers comprising at least one selected from natural and synthetic fibers.

7. A non-slip material as defined by claim 1, said supporting substrate being a foam material.

8. The non-slip material of claim 1, wherein said web comprises a woven fabric, the picks per inch being between 5 to 50 picks per inch.

9. Thereof the non-slip material as defined by claim 8, said woven fabric comprising strands formed from natural and synthetic fibers spun together.

10. The non-slip material of claim 1, said web being formed of fibers of circular cross-section, and wherein said coating is only on about a portion of the outside surface of the fibre, that coated portion of the outside surface being said one surface.