Personal protective equipment
AssigneeFirst Step Holdings, LLC
InventorsScott N. Sheftel, Jeffry B. Skiba
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Abstract
The present invention relates to anti-microbial, antiviral, fibers, and fabrics and to devices made from said fabrics. The invention has particular utility in connection with personal protective equipment (PPE’s) such as surgical masks and respirators, and will be described in connection with such utilities, although other utilities are contemplated, including, for example for forming air handling filters for people movers, i.e., automobiles, trucks, buses, trains, ships and planes, as well as for forming filters for air handling equipment for buildings.
Claims15
1-28. (canceled)
A method of protecting an individual from live airborne bacteria, fungi, molds and viruses, comprising providing the individual with a cloth article formed of a fabric having nanosize particles of zinc disposed on or exposed through said fabric as a plurality of lines or dots in a pattern that positions said particles in discrete physically isolated locations, wherein the particles of zinc and oxygen and moisture from ambient air and oxygen and moisture from exhaled air and skin of the individual form half cells of a battery which creates an electrical field that inactivates or kills live airborne bacteria, fungi, molds and viruses passing in and out through the fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.