Production of gloves and other articles of flexible polymer material
AssigneeAnsell Healthcare Products LLC
InventorsJames Woodford, Liong Loo
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Abstract
A process for producing an article in a flexible foamed polymer material, including treating a former with a coagulant; dipping the treated former in a latex foam mixture to form a layer of the mixture on the former that includes air cells; curing the layer to gel the foam mixture to a cross-linked open cell structure; and stripping the layer from the former; where the latex foam mixture includes a natural latex polymer as a primary polymer component, and a synthetic latex polymer as a secondary polymer component, which synthetic latex polymer is selected to enhance the evenness and/or fineness of said open cell structure.
Claims17
An article, comprising:
- a glove having cured latex layer;
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- the cured latex layer having an open cell structure and an air content in the range of 30 to 60%.
An article, comprising:
- a glove having cured unfoamed latex layer;
- a second cured foamed latex layer;
- the second cured foamed latex layer adhered to cured unfoamed latex layer;
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- the cured latex layer having an open cell structure and an air content in the range of 30 to 60%.
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