Surgical glove
OwnerNicholas F. Seketainventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to surgical glove designs and materials utilized to resist penetration by sharp needles and instruments as well as being impervious to body fluid and infectious disease causative organisms. An additional feature of the materials utilized is that the tear strength of the glove is substantially increased. The glove is formed of segments which increase in thickness in a direction extending from the distal phalangeal segments to the forearm, and the glove is provided with flex points at the joints. This invention provides a highly protective surgical glove which has universal applications to other medical, industrial, and service occupations.
Claims12
A surgical or examination glove comprising connected palm, fingers, thumb, wrist and forearm portions having palmar, medial, lateral and dorsal surfaces comprising a layer of film impervious to body fluids and being cut and puncture resistant, the glove having palmar distal phalangeal finger segments with a thickness less than a thickness of the rest of the palmar surface of the glove, palmar middle phalangeal finger segments of the glove having a thickness more than the thickness of the palmar distal phalangeal finger segments and equal to a thickness of a palmar distal phalangeal thumb segment, palmar proximal phalangeal finger segments of the glove having a thickness similar to a thickness of a palmar proximal phalangeal thumb segment, a thenar portion of the palm and a palmar segment of the palm having a thickness greater than a thickness of the palmar proximal phalangeal finger segments, and a forearm segment having a thickness greater than a thickness of the rest of the glove, the most distal segments of the palmar surface of the fingers being thinner than the palmar middle segments and having a thickness not greater than thicknesses of the medial, lateral and dorsal surfaces of the glove, and the palmar surface having an increasing thickness in a direction extending from the distal phalangeal segments to the forearm.
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