CN1155233A - Glove with hand-coloring material - Google Patents

Abstract

A user of gloves is automatically reminded to wash his hands, after taking off the gloves, by using a glove (10) having an interior surface (12) with a hand-coloring material (14) that transfers onto the wearer's hand during use and remains on the hand after the glove is removed, in an amount sufficient that it is visible on the hand. The colorant is removable, as by washing.

Description

The gloves of band hand-coloring material

Invention field

The present invention relates to gloves, and more specifically be related to the gloves that the person that wears gloves provides a reminder, promptly remind after using gloves and wash one's hands.

Background of invention

In medical science, the laboratory, the dentist, and in the toxic material work, it is standard criterion that the practitioner uses protective gloves.For example, in operation, use sterile glove to help to protect the surgeon not contact, also reduce the chance of the vehicle of infection being introduced surgical openings simultaneously with the vehicle of infection that patient carries.In many checkout procedures, use that the gloves of not sterilization are protected infection that the proofer do not carry with patient or antihygienic medium contacts.Comprising medical diagnosis and check, pharmacology, in many fields of chemistry and environment, the Laboratory Technician also use such gloves protect themselves not with infect, corrosive, poisonous, or other harmful substances contact.

Comprise operation, the gloves for protection and the manufacture method thereof of check and other kinds are well-known.Same well-knownly be that because the characteristic that they fit tightly, if do not increase the help of smoothers or other materials between the gloves inner surface and the person's that wears gloves hand, some such gloves can not be put on easily.Typically, to increase sliding material be a kind of powder and be added in by gloves manufacturer on the inner surface of gloves.Many smoothers that increase disclose in the prior art.At United States Patent (USP) 2621333 (talcums, sodium metaphosphate), 3637411 (cornstarch), 3728739 (polyethylene glycol acid (polyglycolic acid)), 4143423 (sodium acid carbonates), can find some examples in 4540407 (polyalcohol powder) and 4668224 (oxycelluloses).

In many processes, protective gloves is worn, consideration on the health and safety strictly requires to wear gloves, and the person washes his or her hand after ungloving, because might harmful medium contacted with hand by the opening that escapes detection on the gloves or the openend of gloves.Yet experience shows, although although regulations are arranged and to gloves user and other people risk on the unsoundness all that contacted with him or she afterwards, always some user does not wash one's hands, reason is varied, comprises forgetful after taking off their gloves.The existing method of reminding them to wash one's hands such as posting up a placard, not exclusively addresses this problem.Needing a kind of more efficient methods reminds the gloves user to wash one's hands after ungloving.

Therefore, a target of the present invention provides a kind of effective method and reminds the user of protective gloves to wash his or her hand after ungloving.

A kind of effective reminder is desirably a kind of each his or she sure thing of seeing of gloves user when using each gloves, and is difficult for being left in the basket.Can on gloves itself, stamp prompting message or symbol.Although a kind of like this reminder is compared the chance of being seen by the person that wears gloves and is wanted big with posting up a placard,, as do not have any direct influence, it still can be left in the basket.Required is a kind of reminder, and the person ignores as being worn gloves, can direct and undesirable influence be arranged to him or she.

Therefore, thereby further purpose of the present invention is for providing a kind of reminder and causing one to wear gloves the in fact sure reminder of seeing of person is washed his or her hand after ungloving, and a kind of reminder is provided, this reminder is to ignoring wearing gloves the person having directly and adverse influence of it.

A kind of effective reminder should not require that also the person that wears gloves or a third party take extra step that it is come into force.For example, a shortcoming that posts up a placard is that someone must remember and take time to make and put up them, and guarantees that they are being puted up always.A kind of better reminder can occur when each gloves are used automatically, and anyone who does not need user or collaborative user must do any extra thing.

Therefore, another object of the present invention provides the automatic prompting person that wears the protective gloves washes his or her hand after ungloving method, and does not need any step except wearing gloves.Summary of the invention

The present invention adds a kind of transferable hand material of showing signs of anger by the inner surface at gloves and improves known protective gloves.The hand material of showing signs of anger can be added to gloves separately and gets on, and perhaps can be added to inner surface and mixes with it before getting at traditional smoothers that increases.The hand material of showing signs of anger is such material, i.e. its existence can not weaken the sliding performance of increasing of conventional powder, if any.In use, when inner surface contacted with the person's that wears gloves palmistry, hand-coloring material was transferred on hand from inner surface with enough amounts, perhaps when gloves are taken off, can easily seen on hand thereby automatically activate.Then, can remove nontoxic hand-coloring material by washing one's hands.So just provide a kind of automatic prompting user using the method for washing his or her hand behind the gloves.

Because hand-coloring material is stayed on hand before washing off always, in fact it be certain to be seen by the user and be difficult for being left in the basket.Hand-coloring material is also further warned other people: also do not wash with the people of look on hand for one and receive and distribute.Like this, ignored reminder and do not had the user who cleans to be subjected to negative influence both ways for one.The first, he has undiscovered, painted hand.The second, he is concerning the people of the meaning of own or other familiar band look hands, and he has been stamped the label of potential health risk.

Another advantage of the present invention is to have reduced the protective gloves user owing to frequently using gloves to produce the chance of folliculitis (with the skin disease of pore inflammation as feature).The people that the gloves that increase smoothers are spread in some frequent uses produces folliculitis in the place that the inner surface that powder is arranged contacts with its palmistry.Folliculitis is considered to that hole on the skin causes owing to powder stops up.Thereby not washing one's hands behind the use gloves makes powder be tending towards being bonded on the skin time of contact that has prolonged hand and powder.Adopt the present invention, the user is alerted after ungloving and washes one's hands.Cleaning is that a kind of effective method comes from removing on hand otherwise introduces the smoothers of noting that increases hardly.Therefore, reduced the chance that the time that contacts with powder has also reduced the generation folliculitis thus.

Of the present invention have an advantage to be again, if any pigment comes off from gloves, and for example in operation, laboratory, or in the use that particle can pollute in the chemical industry, their color makes and comes off obviously and can take adequate measures or revise.

Because in the gloves use, hand-coloring material has contacting of prolongation with skin, so preferred hand-coloring material is those can be used for cosmetics by the FDA approval a colouring agent.Many such colouring agents are known.In can be used for the toner of cosmetics, approval has: Ke Xiangcao preparation (red), annatto (orange), carrotene (orange), chlorophyll (green), alkermes, mignonettetree (palm fibre), safron (Huang).The inorganic colourant of approval comprises the iron oxide as ochre, umber and loess (yellow to reddish brown), chromium oxide (green), ultramarine (indigo plant), carbon black, and coal-tar oil stain.Indicate " FD﹠amp in the colouring agent of FDA approval; C " or " D﹠amp; C " those be suitable equally.The inorganic colourant major part is water insoluble, and toner can be soluble or insoluble, and this depends on concrete colouring agent.

Hand-coloring material should have, and maybe can provide, a kind of color of being seen easily on skin.Can change on very on a large scale because potential user's of the present invention skin pigment forms, because wish to be convenient to process and use identical color at all gloves, the color of material must be the color of being seen easily on all types of skins again.Preferred adopt blue and green because they and all types of skin pigment all have good contrast.Usually make cosmetics have blueness or green, as eye shadow, these colouring agents are preferred colouring agent, because sensitive skin is fine to its tolerance as the upper eyelid, so have minimum negative reaction risk on the skin of hand.Such colouring agent comprises to be provided blue ultramarine and green chromium oxide is provided.

Ultramarine and chromium oxide all are made into to be suitable for the powder-form that uses as hand-coloring material.Because they are all water-soluble, being delivered on hand initial methods from the inner surface of gloves is by being carried out with going up the friction that contacts He followed that is taken place when using when gloves.Yet the present invention is not limited to hand-coloring material is delivered on hand any specific method from the inner surface of gloves.Transmission can be since be bonded at hand and loosely the contact between the powder on the inner surface of gloves and follow fricative.In addition, hand-coloring material can be water-soluble and dissolved when the person's sweat on hand of wearing gloves contacts when it, is infected with thus on hand.Hand-coloring material can have color when gloves get on being added to, perhaps by moistening, such as activate by sweat or moistening before, it can be to show a little color or Show Color not.These transmittance process can be to take place separately or the combination generation.The particular procedure of decision transmission hand-coloring material depends primarily on the character of the material that uses.For example, water-soluble substances is tending towards being dissolved by sweat on hand of the person that wears gloves, and water-fast material is not just not like this.Therefore, the latter compares with the former and depends on simple friction transmission more.No matter that class material, put on and afterwards use in can produce transmission that some are generated by friction.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the powdery ultramarine mixes mutually up to mixture and goes up substantially evenly with traditional smoothers of being made up of talcum and cornstarch that increases.The particle size that ultramarine has is about 1 μ m to 150 μ m.Wish that the powdery ultramarine can be by 100 purposes sieve, as marking in the U.S. sieve series; Preferably, ultramarine should be able to be by 200 purposes sieve, and this can guarantee not have particle greater than about 74 μ m.The technology of mixing is well-known.Such as, talcum, cornstarch and ultramarine can be placed in a spiral (spiral) or ribbon (ribbon) blender and fully be mixed.Thereby mixture is by the particle of a screened one or many removal of the sieve of suitably selecting greater than certain size.Particle size too conference weakens increasing slipping property and also can giving a kind of granular sensation of person of wearing gloves of mixture.100 purposes sieve is suitable for carrying out the screening of mixture, is preferably 200 purposes sieve.

Then, adopt any energy to guarantee that basically the proper technology of surface-coated is added to the mixture that generates on the inner surface of gloves uniformly.For example, disclosed technology in U.S. Patent No. 3728739 and 4668224.

Although ultramarine is used as a kind of preferred hand-coloring material and discusses, be construed as the present invention and be not limited to particular discussed herein.Equally, just for illustrative purposes, talcum and cornstarch are used as and increase smoothers discussion, and be interpreted as the present invention can be with any suitable smoothers, filler, filler, extender, carrier, or other materials of increasing.

The accompanying drawing summary

Figure 1 shows that a kind of surgical glove, turn over to show the inner surface of a part on its wrist part.The coated according to a preferred embodiment of the invention a situation of schematically illustrated inner surface among the figure, employing be to comprise a kind of hand-coloring material and a kind of mixture that increases smoothers.

Figure 2 shows that one is worn gloves the person ungloves after use.Schematically show among the figure, some of hand-coloring material are delivered to the person that wears gloves on hand from the inner surface of gloves.

Describe in detail

The present invention can be implemented by the gloves of the various ways that designs for multiple use, and is not limited to following example.Embodiment 1: medical type gloves

Medical science, dentistry and laboratory gloves that conventional employing latex or artificial rubber are made are the useful especially ranges of application of the present invention.Referring to Fig. 1, wherein said gloves 10 have an outer surface 11 and an inner surface 12, the surface of inner surface for contacting with the person's that wears gloves hand when using gloves.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, after gloves are made into, apply a kind of mixture that increases smoothers 13 and a kind of hand-coloring material 14 on the inner surface.As an illustration, increasing smoothers can be made up of the talcum that mixes with cornstarch in the proper ratio.For example, the ratio of talcum and cornstarch about 4 to 1 provides increases slipping property.

Talcum-cornstarch mixture and hand-coloring material mix with the ratio that chooses, thereby guarantee when the person that wears gloves ungloves after use, can see easily from inner surface to be delivered on hand hand-coloring material, as shown in Figure 2.Ratio can change according to employed hand-coloring material.Mixture can comprise from the hand-coloring material of about 1% to 20% (weight), more preferably from about 2% to 10% (weight), most preferably is about 6% (weight).Usually, wish to use minimal effective dose.

Ultramarine is selected as the preferred hand-coloring material in the present embodiment.Be an example of the prescription that is added to a kind of like this mixture on the inner surface of gloves below: prescription No.1

Talcum 75.2% (weight)

Cornstarch 18.8%

Ultramarine 6.0%

For example, the particle size of component is from about 1 μ m to 150 μ m.Preferably, all components should be able to be by 200 purposes sieves, and this can guarantee can not to occur the particle greater than about 74 μ m.If necessary, these components can be carried out ball milling or other processing so that they can pass through this sieve.

Then, component is placed into a ribbon mixer or other suitable equipment and is mixed into abundant mixing, after this, removes any caking thereby mixture screens by one 200 purpose.Then, by any suitable technology, the mixture of generation is added on the inner surface of gloves.Such as, powder can be blown into gloves.In addition, the inside of gloves can be routed up and, and place rolling barrel (tumbler), roll until mixture is fully coated on the surface of wearing gloves the person contacting with a certain amount of mixture.Yet shake is removed remaining loose mixture and the front is turned over.

Can use other coloured materials and prescription.Such as, can use one or more approved FD﹠amp; C or D﹠amp; The C colouring agent is produced a kind of suitable shade of color, then with increase smoothers and mix mutually.Like this, the ratio of employed colouring agent depends on the pure dye content of colouring agent, greatly about changing from about 2% to 80%.Be a representational prescription below: prescription No.2

Cornstarch 96% (weight)

D﹠amp; C colouring agent 4% is if by using the back providing a color that is easy to see essential on hand at gloves, and the ratio of colouring agent can change.Embodiment 2: the gloves that are used for pharmacy and chemistry

The present invention can also be applied to the protective gloves that uses in the occasion that pharmacy and chemical industry or any poisonous, corrosive, acid or other dangerous medicines or compound contact.Such gloves are normally made with rubber or plastics, often have a kind of smoothers that increases.Following Example is a prescription that is used for this purposes: prescription No.3

Cornstarch 98% (weight)

D﹠amp; C colouring agent 2% embodiment, 3 gardening and domestic purpose gloves

Contain microorganism in the soil, if picked-up is harmful.The pregnant woman especially will avoid contacting soil, because can produce the infringement to fetus.When working in courtyard or garden, the gardening gloves help to prevent and the contacting of soil that still, even use gloves, some soil still contact with palmistry, measures sometimes should not be found less.If do not wash off, exist some soil by hand-unexpected danger that is ingested of mouth contact.The present invention can be used for the gardening gloves valuably, thereby reminds the gardener to wash his or her hand after ungloving.

Because it all is cloth that the gardening gloves tend to, suitable coloured material is a powder, is with or without carrier, or the liquid that mixes with a kind of powder carrier.The prescription that provides among the embodiment 1 can be used in such gloves suitably.The optimized proportion of coloured material can be determined that promptly guaranteeing is having good observability after gloves are taken off on hand by a series of simple tests under different ratios.

The present invention also can be used for domestic purpose gloves, promptly is used for cleaning or paint such purpose as the furniture surface trimming.Such gloves do not need to increase the difficulty that smoothers reduces to put on one's gloves usually.

Hand-coloring material can be added to separately on the inner surface or with a kind of carrier or filler and mix.Some coloured material can use under the situation of carrier not having.Yet perhaps some coloured material can not be implemented under undiluted situation, because color form that is can not be too strong or material is perhaps improper.For example when painted material be a kind of liquid, aqueous and gloves when having a cloth lining, need a kind of powder carrier prevent that lining from absorbing these materials when adding coloured material.Also wish to use a kind of relatively inexpensive filler to make the use of coloured material more economical.

To lining or linerless family expenses and work gloves are arranged, the prescription that provides among the embodiment 1 can be added on the inner surface, and wherein talcum here and/or cornstarch have not been the effects of slip agent, but a kind of carrier or the filler of colouring agent.Because the loose character of wearing of gloves is delivered to color and more is difficult on hand produce, if must guarantee that good observability is being arranged on hand, the percentage of colouring agent can increase.Can comprise a kind of tackify material (tack-enhancing), such as wax, paraffin oil, or glycerin monostearate, thus guarantee that powder is bonded on hand slightly.

In addition, a kind of fluid or semifluid, oil base carrier also can with a kind of coloured material that is suitable for colored oil, mix mutually such as the Ke Xiangcao preparation.Can not volatilize in the storage of oil base carrier before gloves use, and help coloured material to user's transmission on hand.

The foregoing description only is an illustrative application of the present invention.Other application, hand-coloring material increases smoothers, and perhaps carrier can be below not departing from uses under the situation of the spirit and scope of claim.

Claims (14)

1, a kind of gloves that have an inner surface and in use contact with the person's that wears gloves palmistry, has a kind of nontoxic hand-coloring material above the described inner surface, this material in use is passed to the person that wears gloves on hand from described inner surface, when gloves are taken off, thereby described hand-coloring material is retained in enough amounts described hand-coloring material is seen being easy on hand, described hand-coloring material be a kind of can be by cleaning from the material of removing on hand.

2, gloves as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hand-coloring material are a kind of powdery or liquid colourant and mix with a kind of powder carrier.

3, gloves as claimed in claim 2, wherein said colouring agent are about about 1-20% of described material and described total weight of carrier.

4, gloves as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hand-coloring material are a kind of powder of particle size in about 1 μ m to 150 mu m range that have.

5, gloves as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hand-coloring material are a kind of inorganic pigments.

6, gloves as claimed in claim 1, the color of wherein said hand-coloring material are blue or green.

7, gloves as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hand-coloring material are a kind of liquid colourants.

8, a kind of gloves that have an inner surface and in use contact with the person's that wears gloves palmistry, described inner surface applied a kind of nontoxic, comprise a kind of mixture that increases smoothers and a kind of hand-coloring material, this mixture in use is passed to the person that wears gloves on hand from described inner surface, when gloves are taken off, thereby described hand-coloring material is retained in enough amounts described hand-coloring material is seen being easy on hand, described hand-coloring material be a kind of can be by cleaning from the material of removing on hand.

9, gloves as claimed in claim 8, the wherein said smoothers that increases comprises a kind of in talcum and the cornstarch at least.

10, gloves as claimed in claim 9, wherein said hand-coloring material comprises ultramarine.

11, a kind of automatic prompting person that wears gloves method of washing his hand after ungloving comprises

A kind of hand-coloring material with color is provided, and this color makes it visible and can be by the removal of washing one's hands on hand,

Described hand-coloring material is added in use on the inner surface of the gloves that contact with the person's that wears gloves palmistry,

Put on one's gloves for use, some in the described hand-coloring material in use are passed to the person that wears gloves on hand from described inner surface, and

Use the back from ungloving on hand,

When gloves are taken off, thereby some hand-coloring materials are retained in enough amounts described hand-coloring material can seen on hand.

12, as the method for claim 11, wherein said material is powder and is bonded on the described inner surface by loosely.

13, a kind of automatic prompting person that wears gloves method of washing its hand after ungloving comprises

With a kind of hand-coloring material and a kind of increasing on the inner surface that smoothers is coated to gloves,

Put on one's gloves and make in the described hand-coloring material some be delivered to the person that wears gloves on hand thus from described inner surface, and

From ungloving on hand,

When gloves are taken off, thereby some hand-coloring materials are retained in enough amounts described hand-coloring material can seen on hand.

14, as the method for claim 13, wherein said coating step is to be undertaken by described hand-coloring material and the described granular mixture that increases smoothers are blown into described gloves.

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