Stain hiding fabric with metallic coating
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsRajib Mondal, Matthew I. Foote, Gregory A. Satterfield, II, Cristina M. Acevedo, Geoffrey R. Haas
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Abstract
This invention relates to a method for hiding stains in medical dressings and other textile substrates. The method includes applying a metallic silver coating to a textile substrate via a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVP) process. The metallic silver coating effectively hides any stain that comes into direct contact with the treated substrate by transferring the liquid beneath the surface of the coating. The invention also relates to textile substrates containing metallic silver coatings.
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A stain hiding fabric consisting of a textile substrate in the form of a knit fabric having a wound contact surface and a non-wound contact surface, wherein the wound contact surface contains a metallized silver coating having a thickness in the range from 1% to 60%, based on the total thickness of the textile substrate, and wherein the metallized silver coating is present on an outermost surface of the stain hiding fabric directly in contact with a wound.
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