Novel process and article for preparing artificial nails
AssigneeZotos International, Inc.
InventorJames T. Giuliano
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Abstract
Novel procedures for preparing artificial nails employing coating compositions which are cured in the presence of ultraviolet light to provide hard, flexible artificial nails having the general appearance of natural nails, which procedures can be used with the known prior art forms; and novel forms or molds for use in preparing artificial nails which are particularly useful with the aforementioned novel procedures but which can be employed with the prior art techniques for coating artificial nail compositions on a digit.
Claims27
Article for preparing artificial nails comprising, in combination:
- (1) an organic solvent-free photocurable liquid composition which, upon exposure to actinic radiation, can cure to provide a hard flexible water-insoluble plastic;
- (2) a form comprising a liquid-impermeable flexible sheet material adapted to engage a digit and having an area adapted to receive said liquid composition in a defined configuration;
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- (3) a source of actinic radiation which, upon exposure thereto of said digit having said form containing said composition in engagement therewith, can provide a hard plastic artificial nail.
A process for forming a hard artificial nail on a digit, which artificial nail can thereafter optimally be shaped to the desired configuration, comprising the steps of:
- (1) applying to a digit an organic solvent-free photocurable liquid composition which upon exposure to actinic radiation can cure to provide a hard flexible water-insoluble plastic and wherein said composition comprises at least one polymer, a photoinitiator and at least one liquid monomer in which said polymer and photoinitiator are soluble, said monomer being cross-linkable with said polymer in the presence of actinic radiation and wherein said polymer is an acrylated urethane oligomer, and
- (2) thereafter exposing said applied photocurable liquid composition to actinic radiation to initiate said curing to form a hard artificial nail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.