Antimicrobial cable tie
AssigneeThomas & Betts International, Inc.
InventorYan Gao
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Abstract
Cable ties including an antimicrobial component and optionally a detectable component are disclosed. More particularly, cable ties including a composition having a base plastic, an antimicrobial additive and optionally a detectable additive selected from a detectable metal additive, an X-ray detectable additive and combinations thereof as well as methods of making the same are disclosed. Also, cable ties including an antimicrobial metallic barb and a composition having a base plastic and optionally an antimicrobial additive and/or a detectable additive selected from a detectable metal additive, an X-ray detectable additive and combinations thereof are disclosed.
Claims8
A two-piece cable tie comprising:
- i) a composition wherein the composition consists essentially of:
- a) a base plastic, wherein the base plastic is polyamide,
- b) an antimicrobial additive mixed with the base plastic, and wherein the antimicrobial additive is silver sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate, and
- c) a detectable additive selected from a detectable metal additive, an X-ray detectable additive and combinations thereof, and
- ii) a metallic barb,
- wherein the metallic barb is an antimicrobial metallic barb comprising a copper alloy selected from the group consisting of C28000, C11000, C51000, C70600, C26000, and C75200.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.