Glove made of polyvinyl chloride resin

• US 6,012,169 A
• Filed: 02/11/1999
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Showa KK (Gakken Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Showa KK (Gakken Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Miyake, Akio, Nishi, Yasutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Oleksa, Diana
• Assistant Examiner(s): MORAN, KATHERINE M
• Application Number:
  US09/248,097
• Time in Patent Office: 334 Days
• Field of Search: 2/16, 2/159, 2/161.7, 2/167, 427/2.3, D29/113
• US Class Current: 2/161.7
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/0058 Three-dimensional gloves
• 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

Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a polyvinyl chloride resin-made glove exhibiting an antimicrobial activity both on inner and outer surfaces of the glove which has a simple constitution and is easily fabricated to be cost-competitive. The glove is constituted of a base layer 1 formed of the polyvinyl chloride resin and an antimicrobial agent including layer 2 of which major composition is a polyacrylic resin formed on one of the surfaces of the base layer, no matter what the surface may be the outer one or the inner one of the glove. A base layer thickness of the glove is reduced less than a specified thickness through which the antimicrobial agent can penetrate diffusibly from one of surfaces to the opposite surface of the glove.

Claims

1. A glove comprising:

a base layer formed of a polyvinyl chloride resin; and

an antimicrobial agent including layer of which major composition is a polyacrylic resin for including an antimicrobial agent, wherein;

said antimicrobial agent including layer is provided on a member of a group consisting of a front surface and a rear surface of said base layer; and

a base layer thickness of said glove is reduced less than 0.2 mm wherethrough said antimicrobial agent can diffusibly transfer from a surface provided with said antimicrobial agent including layer to an opposite surface unprovided with said antimicrobial agent including layer.

2. The glove according to claim 1, wherein:

said antimicrobial agent included in said antimicrobial agent including layer is a member of a group consisting of a synthetic zeolite and a natural zeolite which contains at least one of metallic ions belonging to another group consisting of silver, copper and zinc.