Gloves and the manufacture thereof
AssigneeDetectamet Limited
InventorSean Ronald Smith
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Abstract
A glove of a form typically, although not necessarily exclusively, provided for single or limited use purposes and discarded thereafter. The glove is to prevent contact between a product and a person's hand and to avoid contamination. The glove material includes components capable of detection by at least one form of noncontact detection apparatus which renders the glove or portion detectable if discarded and inadvertently becomes part of a manufacturing process or product. The components render the glove detectable by using metal detection apparatus and/or X-ray detection apparatus which may allow removal of the glove. The glove may also include an antimicrobial agent as part to prevent or reduced contamination on the surface of the glove. The glove can also be rendered biodegradable.
Claims15
A glove, said glove formed so as to be located round the palm, back and fingers of a user's hand, said glove formed of a sheet material which is sufficiently pliable so as to allow the manipulation of the users hand without any substantial restriction and wherein the said sheet material includes therein a plurality of components so as to render the glove, and detached portions thereof, detectable by non-contact detection apparatus in the form of X-ray detection apparatus and metal detection apparatus, wherein the plurality of components include a quantity of magnetically attractive metal or metal alloy particles to render the particles detectable by the metal detection apparatus and a quantity of barium and/or a ferrous oxide including YFe203 to render the particles detectable by the X-ray detection apparatus and the plurality of components are substantially uniformly dispersed throughout a base material used to form the glove when the base material is in a liquid form so as to retain the plurality of components within the wall of the glove once the glove is formed from the base material and worn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.