FI68966B - TVAETTVANTE SAERSKILT FOER SJUKHUSBRUK - Google Patents

Description

68966

Washing glove, especially for hospital use Tvättvante, särskilt för sjukhusbruk

The present invention relates to a washing glove which, due to its properties, is suitable primarily for hospital use, but which can also be used well at home.

In hospital use, special hygiene requirements are set for washing gloves. For this reason, disposable washing gloves have been developed for this purpose from a known bag-like nonwoven glove with an inner bag made of plastic film. With this structure, the hygiene of the product in question has been substantially improved.

However, this known product has the disadvantage of a rather deficient abrasive effect, i.e. a washing effect, due to the washing surface formed of the nonwoven fabric. A solution to the washing problem has been sought by replacing the nonwoven fabric with open-cell foam, which, due to its roughness, substantially improves the washing properties of the glove. At the same time, a suitable amount of detergent is stored in the pores of the washing surface.

However, the rough washing surface has brought with it a good washing result as well as problems. Namely, during the washing operation, the rough surface provides a significantly higher resistance to movement when transported on the skin than the nonwoven surface, whereby the bag-like glove tends to rotate in the hand in such a position that the washing surface travels to the back of the washing hand. The glove also tends to slide out of the hand, causing it to be jerked back with the other hand. This complicates the washing process and, accordingly, causes the hand used to improve the glove to become dirty. Furthermore, the glove gliding in the hand quite easily moves away so much from the hand that washing water enters the glove from the mouth of the glove, whereby the desired hygiene is lost.

The problem could be solved, for example, by making the bag-like part of the washing glove specifically as a glove, which would be very suitable for the hand and would certainly remain in place in the hand. The palm portion of this glove would then be provided with a layer of foam acting as a sponge.

However, in the case of such products, hygiene, in particular in hospital use, explicitly requires single use, which is why the product should be as simple to manufacture as possible in order to keep the unit cost of the product affordable. In this respect, the manufacturing costs of the glove type glove are high in Ilia.

Instead, the aforementioned bag-like glove, consisting of a modified film body part and a rough foam washing surface, meets the characteristics of cheap production in terms of its manufacturing technique. The glove in question can be manufactured, for example, as a continuous, glove-wide plastic film tube, for example from two superimposed film strips which are sealed as a continuous tube at the edges. The tubes are then cut at regular intervals into lengths of glove, preferably by a partially heated device, which at the same time seals the second cutting edge into the glove for the fingertip. The foam wash layer can then be attached to the glove on the palm side as a separate function, for example by gluing. An alternative function is to attach the washing surface to the tubular glove body at regular intervals in sheets of suitable size and to cut the gloves apart from each other between the sheets.

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The glove can also be made by running it on the sealing machine "sideways", in which case the glove is made of a plastic film corresponding to twice its length by turning the back and palms of the glove against each other around the fingertips. In this case, the glove is seamed only at its sides, the finger twist forming the tip seam. This ensures that the tip-critical tip seam is held in place.

According to the invention, a plastic bag-like glove with a rough foam wash surface as described above is substantially improved in its hand-soaked depth so that the overlapping plastic films forming the body of the glove are seamed together with at least one longitudinal seam of the glove extending about a finger. Such a seam provides a kind of internal grip handle on the glove, which the glove can be gripped by the user by pressing two fingers on the opposite side of the seam against each other. Alternatively, there may be two or more of these seams, with the glove aiming for a gloved structure on the glove without substantially complicating manufacture. Admittedly, even a single seam, substantially in the middle of the glove, already achieves a substantial improvement in the glove's hand retention over previously known designs.

In addition, it is particularly advantageous for the glove from a hygienic point of view if it is provided with a clearly extended shank part which fits relatively tightly on the wrist's wrist, preventing washing water from entering the glove. In particular, in a glove made in accordance with the main feature of the invention, a very certain hygienic result is achieved by the combined effect of the hand grip and the extended wrist section.

The features of the invention appear from the claims.

Claims (3)

68966 The invention will be explained in detail with the aid of the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 shows the glove from the palm side, i.e. from the washing surface side and Figure 2 shows the glove from the back side and which is closed kinnaspussiksi päätysaumalla 3. the palm-side film 1 is attached to the cleaning surface 4, for example by gluing. The washing surface 4 consists of a thin layer of foam, preferably open-cell, suitably coarse foam. According to the invention, a longitudinal seam 5 is made on the chest part of the finger part, with which the films 1 and 2 are seamed together substantially along the length of the finger. In an alternative embodiment, two longitudinal seams 5 ', 5 "are shown. According to a further feature of the glove according to the invention, the glove is provided with an elongated wrist part 6 in order to provide a good seal to the glove on the wristband. A disposable washing glove, in particular for hospital use, consisting of two plastic films (1,2) of glove length joined together at the edges, further sealed at the end seam (3) into a glove bag with a foam surface forming a washing surface attached to the palm of the bag ( 4), characterized in that the kintaaseen is made of at least one longitudinal, kinnaspussin palm and back side films (1,2) connecting seam, which extends substantially Ki-naspussin päätysaumasta (3) towards substantially the length of the finger mitt of the wrist. Glove according to Claim 1, characterized in that there are two (5 #, 5 ") longitudinal seams. Glove according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it has an elongated wrist part (6).