Conditioning Or Treating Material Or Form To Effect Deposition Patents (Class 264/306)
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Patent number: 6143230Abstract: Plastic hoods and dividers are provided for use with row crop heads. The hoods and dividers are single walled and self-supporting. The single-walled hoods and dividers are preferably manufactured through a rotational molding process wherein a non-stick coating, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, is attached to portions of the mold.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Case CorporationInventors: John Andrios, Dathan Kerber, Brian Koesters
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Patent number: 6019922Abstract: A powder free medical glove having an outer side a silicon treated surface and the inside of cross linked coagulated glove bonded with a layer formed of an anti-blocking composition. The anti-blocking composition includes of a polymer or copolymer mixed together with a micronised high density polyethylene material and wax in suitable blends that result in the composition having anti-blocking and improved lubricity properties. The medical glove with the skin contacting anti-blocking coating enables donning of the glove to be effected without the aid of donning powder such as starch powder. When the finished glove is washed and rinsed with water to remove the coagulant powder, and the said glove treated with a silicon solution, a glove substantially free of loose powder glove is produced and has good lubricity for donning.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1998Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Mfg Sn BhdInventors: Noorman Abu Hassan, Chak Choy Yuen
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Patent number: 5935506Abstract: A method for the manufacture of intravascular stents of bioresorbable material comprises the following steps:preparing a viscous solution of poly-.beta.-hydroxybutanoic acid as a bioresorbable polymeric material in a solvent,successively coating a male mold core with layers of the polymer solution in several steps by precipitation of the polymeric material by the solvent being evaporated and by the layer previously precipitated being dissolved at least partially for a homogeneous stent blank to build up,drawing the stent blank off the male mold core, andsubsequently treating the stent blank to finish the shaping of the stent.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1996Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Biotronik Me.beta.- und Therapiegerate GmbH & Co. Ingenieurburo BerlinInventors: Klaus-Peter Schmitz, Detlef Behrend
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Patent number: 5932162Abstract: A powdered slush molding device has debris capturing devices in its reservoir. A resin material is passed back and forth through openings between the reservoir and the mold by rotating the apparatus back and forth until a film of desired thickness is formed on the mold. The capturing devices capture the debris formed during a molding process. Unwanted debris are then removed from the capturing devices either while the capturing devices remain within the reservoir or by removing them and removing the debris outside the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Kansei CorporationInventor: Masahiro Johno
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Patent number: 5888441Abstract: A method for the manufacture of an antimicrobial rubber article which includes incorporating an effective amount of an antimicrobial agent into the natural rubber after the article has been shaped but before the article has been cured is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1993Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Ansell Healthcare Products Inc.Inventor: Richard Milner
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Patent number: 5833911Abstract: A method for forming a glove in an elastomer deposition process employs a folded glove form. The form has a hand forming portion having palm and finger forming portions. The finger forming portions terminate in distal tips and the cuff forming portion terminates in a terminal end for forming the cuff opening. The form is folded so that finger forming portion distal tips and the cuff forming portion terminal end lie in separate planes and in facing relationship to one another. To form the glove, the form is vertically oriented and dipped into a bath of elastomer with both the cuff forming portion terminal end and the finger portion distal tips facing upwards.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc.Inventors: Francisco Moises Llort, Mao-Ching Chen, Leslie Edward Blackford
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Patent number: 5811050Abstract: An EMI shield for personal computers, cellular telephones, and other electronic devices is constructed from thermoformable polymeric material which is then metallized on all surfaces by vacuum metallization techniques to provide an inexpensive, lightweight, yet effective EMI shield.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Inventor: John F. Gabower
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Patent number: 5795530Abstract: A resilient and flexible base for a two-piece traffic channelizer is provided that does not require external ballasting to stabilize the channelizer against wind forces and vacuum forces created by passing vehicles and minor impacts from a vehicle. The base is formed of a hardenable liquid resin such that the base is resilient and flexible after curing and has a specific gravity greater than about 1.25. The base further includes at least one flexible footpad for generating a restoring moment when the channelizer is subjected to a tipping force, such as a minor impact. The composition of the liquid resin includes at least one off-grade polyvinylchloride (PVC) resin, a plasticizer and a specific gravity increasing agent. A method is also provided for forming the base by slush molding at least a portion of the hardenable liquid resin adjacent the interior surface of a molding cavity. The base formed by the disclosed method is also self-lubricating and resistant to chemical degradation and extreme temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1996Date of Patent: August 18, 1998Assignee: Radiator Specialty CompanyInventors: Albert F. Monda, Milton Darrell Hinnant
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Patent number: 5779964Abstract: A male urinary catheter and method of making same. The catheter employs a condom like sheath of silicone rubber which sealingly engages the penis of the patient. A catheter stem at the distal end of the sheath couples to a urine collection system. The sheath is sealed to the penis by an adhesive which is applied to the outer surface of the sheath at the time of manufacture. A surface preparation layer is applied over the adhesive. The sheath is rolled up from the proximal end. The sheath is unrolled to apply it to the patient. During the unrolling process, the adhesive layer is removed from the outer surface and deposited on the inner surface of the sheath.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1993Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Mentor CorporationInventors: Daniel P. Welch, Thomas D. Ryan, Erik M. Knutson
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Patent number: 5776399Abstract: A method of molding a shaped article includes the steps of providing a molding tool having an exposed surface for receiving a plastic powder resin to be melted thereagainst and an insulated surface; providing an insulating panel with insulated laminated alternating layers of fiberglass and silicone rubber and an inner core filled with silicone rubber and a plurality of hollow glass beads to prevent melting of plastic powder resin on the insulated surface; applying a plastic powder resin on the exposed mold surface and melting it thereon while exposing the insulating panel to the plastic powder resin remaining in powder form thereon for reclaiming and thereafter setting said melted plastic into a plastic article by cooling the plastic article and removing it from the molding tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Davidson Textron Inc.Inventor: Harold W. Swenson
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Patent number: 5756035Abstract: A vascular prosthesis is adapted for use as an access graft having a permanent set, kink-resistant U-bend section. A method for making the access graft includes the utilization of a tube of implantable material adapted to be attached in a blood circulatory system and to provide thereby a site for access for cannulation, the tube having a permanent set, kink-resistant U-shaped bent section and the method including the steps of forming a straight tube by a process which yields a set, dryable tube; taking a length of the tube and inserting in it along its length a flexible rod-like support member; wrapping the tube containing the support member around a core so as to define a bend in the tube, the bend being wet at this stage; drying the wet tube containing the support member while wrapped around the core to permanently shape the tube into a bent form; removing the dried tube from the core and removing the support member so as to form an access graft, U-shaped bent section.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: PolyMedica Industries, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Underwood, David Charlesworth, Kerm Sin Chian
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Patent number: 5744086Abstract: Laminar articles are manufactured by slush molding polyolefin compositions in powder form composed of:A) 10-40 parts by weight of a propylene homopolymer or copolymer;B) 0-20 parts by weight of a copolymer fraction containing ethylene, propylene and/or a CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR .alpha.-olefin, the copolymer fraction being insoluble in xylene at ambient temperature and having an ethylene content equal to or greater than 80% by weight;C) 50-80 parts by weight of a copolymer fraction containing ethylene, propylene and/or a CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR .alpha.-olefin, the copolymer fraction being soluble in xylene at ambient temperature and having an intrinsic viscosity in tetrahydronaphthalene at 135 C ranging from 1 to 1.4 dl/g.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1997Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Montell North America Inc.Inventor: Martin Hallam
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Patent number: 5433913Abstract: A method of manufacturing and mass-producing a seamless heat-resistant resinous tube with a uniform tube wall thickness and circumference, which includes the steps of coating the precursor solution of a tube material to the surface of a core at a thickness greater than the tube wall thickness; passing a metallic die having a wider inside diameter than the diameter of the core along the outside of the core by utilizing the resistant force of the precursor solution without restricting the metallic die or the core, thus forming a tube around the core; treating the tube around the core to give it strength as a tube; and separating the tube from the core.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1993Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Assignee: I.S.T. CorporationInventors: Satsuki Kawauchi, Yoji Tani, Hitoshi Fujiwara
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Patent number: 5407612Abstract: A puncture and cut resistant composite material including at least one elastomeric layer containing a plurality of flat platelets oriented substantially parallel to the plane of the elastomeric layer, wherein each of the platelets is a small, thin element substantially impervious to normally encountered puncturing and/or cutting by sharp objects, and wherein the platelets by their mutual overlap substantially cover any surface to which the composite material may be applied. This new composite material is particularly well-suited to the formation of gloves.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1993Date of Patent: April 18, 1995Inventors: Arnold S. Gould, Larry D. Nichols
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Patent number: 5356589Abstract: Method and apparatus for rotationally casting a plastic tank liner having a molded-in access fitting and for ensuring a uniform thickness of plastic in the wall of the liner and on the fitting. A hollow mold having a mold cavity surface conforming to the surface of the liner is provided. An access fitting is removeably mounted on the mold so that the interior surface of the fitting may be coated with the molding plastic and so that the molded liner and the filling may be removed from the mold as a unit. The mold is rotated about orthogonal axes while the mold is heated to a resin liquifying temperature. Additional heat is supplied to the fitting at a rate proportional to the mass of the fitting so that the temperature of the inside surface of the fitting is increased at a rate substantially corresponding to the inside surface temperature of the mold.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1993Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Essef CorporationInventor: Charles Sugalski
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Patent number: 5304337Abstract: A glove configuration and method for making same of a thin flexible film is shown. The glove and form having an ambidextrous shape useful for either the left or right hand use and a cuff configuration which resists rolldown. The configuration of the cuff includes a corrugated portion and a broadly fluted portion. The former giving increased strength and thickness and the latter providing a place to improve the ease with which the glove may be stripped from its dipping form.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1988Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Fung-Bor Chen, Wu-Nan Huang, Carl M. Rogers
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Patent number: 5284607Abstract: A process for making powder-free medical gloves that are nevertheless easy to don involves first forming a glove on a form by successively dip-coating layers of a coagulant containing acid-soluble powder dispersed throughout, an elastomer, and an antiblocking composition with particles distributed throughout. After curing the elastomer and applying a silicone coating, the glove is removed from the form and treated successively with acid, to dissolve the powder, and with bleach, to reduce blocking. Using this process, high quality natural rubber medical gloves can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1991Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc.Inventor: Mao-Ching Chen
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Patent number: 5207965Abstract: An elastic mould of this invention includes a pattern and a fixing sheet which is integrally mounted at an open edge of the pattern. The elastic mould is manufactured by dipping a pattern mounted on a plate into an elastic body-producing solution to form a gel-like elastic film, withdrawing, drying and vulcanizing the object thus formed, and peeling the elastic film off the pattern to obtain a mould having a fixing member as an integral part of the mould.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1991Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Assignee: Komine Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Komine, Toshiya Fujishima
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Patent number: 5159970Abstract: A method of making a shell mould, particularly for a lost wax casting operation, includes the deposition of an adhesion agent on the pattern before the deposition of layers of ceramic material to build up the mould. The adhesion agent used is preferably a 3% solution of aminosilane in a solvent consisting of ethanol and ethyl acetate in amounts from 25% to 75% of the solvent. The method avoids the phenomenon of detachment at the pattern/ceramic interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1990Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation "S.N.E.C.M.A."Inventors: Nadine Burkarth, Christian Marty, Yvan Rappart
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Patent number: 5158734Abstract: A two component leadwire system is disclosed for electrical connection between biomedical electrodes and electrical equipment for diagnostic or therapeutic use. One leadwire component has a bayonet terminus and can be rugged for reuse. The second leadwire is an inexpensively-made receptacle for making electrical contact with the bayonet. The receptable has a socket for receiving the bayonet and an electrical conductor surrounded by a resilient, insulative sheath. When the bayonet is inserted into the socket, the sheath resiliently grips the bayonet and holds the bayonet in electrical contact with the conductor. A method for making the receptacle component, involving dip molding of the conductor arrayed on a mandril, is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1992Date of Patent: October 27, 1992Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Terry S. Nees
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Patent number: 5135690Abstract: A process for producing a cylindrical reinforcing fibrous molding by sealing openings at opposite ends of a porous cylindrical disintegratable mold, immersing the mold into an aqueous solution of a molding material containing reinforcing fibers and an inorganic binder, and depositing the molding material onto the outer peripheral surface of the mold by applying suction within the mold to form a molding blank; pressing the molding blank against the mold to adjust the shape of the molding blank; disintegrating the mold to remove it from the blank; and heating the molding blank to partially bond the reinforcing fibers with the inorganic binder.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1987Date of Patent: August 4, 1992Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Imura, Masaki Sakakibara, Takahiro Suenaga, Shigeo Kaiho, Kanji Murata, Hitoshi Karasawa, Kazuya Sakamoto, Masahiro Inoue, Masanobu Ishikawa, Takashige Hara
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Patent number: 5133923Abstract: A latex container, and associated former and method for producing, for use as a leg bag by urinary incontinent males. The latex leg bag is provided with strap holders that are integrally formed simultaneously with the leg bag structure to provide a more structurally reliable strap holder. The strap holder includes a nodal growth of latex, simultaneously grown during the a latex coagulation process, that bridges an interstice on the former to close the strap holder loop. The leg bag container is provided having a skewed entry neck for facilitating better dressing of the delivery tube during use, and a concave shape to better conform to the user's leg. The former is machined with corresponding structure to form the leg bag in a latex coagulation process.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1991Date of Patent: July 28, 1992Assignee: Sierra Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: K. Robert P. Klug
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Patent number: 5112559Abstract: An apparatus for coating molds to make hard gelatin capsules has a dish for holding a bath of liquid gelatin. A multi-well tray is submerged in the bath to establish a plurality of fluid passageways through the bath and to create a pool of liquid gelatin in each of the wells. A drive unit, having a pair of counterrotating gears, moves gelatin through the passageways and pools to maintain a substantially uniform gelatin temperature throughout the bath. Capsule molds are periodically submerged into the pools and then withdrawn to manufacture the hard gelatin capsules.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Warner-Lambert CompanyInventor: Jean C. Lebrun
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Patent number: 5069965Abstract: Rubber and vinyl articles such as gloves with improved slip coatings and processes for their production are provided by coating the outer and/or inner surfaces with either (1) a copolymer of at least one copolymerizable vinyl halide, at least one copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon and at least one copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a carboxyl or amido group, (ii) copolymer of at least one copolymerizable vinyl or vinylidene halide, acrylonitrile and at least one acryulic monomer, or mixtures of (i) and (ii).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1990Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Assignee: Bioresearch, Inc.Inventor: Pascal E. Esemplare
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Patent number: 4993137Abstract: A method for manufacturing capsules causes the solution of thermo-gelling material to gelatinize once, and then drys the gel. Therefore the process of manufacturing capsules is less affected by drying conditions, thus providing capsules of uniform wall thickness without wrinkle. In the apparatus, circulating capsule pins are dipped in the solution of thermo-gelling material, thus the solution adheres to the pins. The pins are rotated upside down, thus thickness of the solution adhering to the pins becoming uniform. Then the pins are retained in the vessel maintained at a higher temperature than the gelling temperature of the solution, and the solution adhering to the pins is gelatinized. The thus-formed gel is dried through a drying device, and the dried gel, i.e. capsules, is removed from capsule pins.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1989Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Muto, Yuichi Nishiyama, Toru Chiba, Kiyoshi Araume
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Patent number: 4979888Abstract: An apparatus for reflow smoothing a molded article made by first heating a face of a mold at a first station, then applying a fusible synthetic resin to the heated face and thereby melting the resin into a continuous coating covering the heated mold face at a second station spaced angularly from the first station, and cooling the coating and mold at the second station until the coating hardens. To reflow smooth the article, the surface of the cooled coating is then smoothed by confining the mold and hardened coating in a substantially closed chamber at the second station and reheating the confined coating until its surface flows. Thereafter the coating is cooled again at a third station angularly spaced from and downstream of the second station until it hardens and the hardened covering is stripped from the mold at a fourth station angularly spaced downstream of the third station and upstream of the first station.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1989Date of Patent: December 25, 1990Assignee: Krauss-Maffei AktiengesellschaftInventors: Adolf Bauer, Peter Wagner
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Patent number: 4917850Abstract: A polyurethane glove having improved tear and puncture resistance is made from the reaction product of an aliphatic diisocyanate, an aliphatic polyether diol having a molecular weight in the range of about 1,000 to about 5,000 and an aliphatic diol containing about 2 to about 6 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1988Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Assignee: Aukland Group (USA), Inc.Inventor: Norman Gray
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Patent number: 4752426Abstract: Plastic resinous tubes, particularly for medical use is improved in blood compatibility when brought into contact with blood, by applying a low-temperature plasma treatment to inner surfaces of the tubes, which plasma is produced through electrodeless electric discharges by the effect of microwave to make it possible to prevent the tube from being heated in such a treatment. The inner surfaces of the tubes thus activated may be further subjected to an inner surface graft copolymerization treatment to enhance blood compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1986Date of Patent: June 21, 1988Assignees: Yoshito Ikada, Japan Medical Supply Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsuneo Cho
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Patent number: 4740337Abstract: The plastic molded article is produced by heating a mold by contact with a preheated salt bath. The salt bath is readily maintained at a uniform temperature and is self-insulating for energy efficiency. A noncontact infrared sensor monitors the mold cavity temperature while in the salt bath, and the mold is removed from the bath when the proper mold temperature is reached. A charge of plastic powder is introduced into the mold by clamping the mold to a powder slush box with the mold cavity confronting the opening of the box. The mold and box are then simultaneously rotated to pour the plastic charge into the mold. The plastic charge forms a skin on the cavity surface and additional plastic material may be built up to provide additional thickness. The mold and box are then separated; the mold is then postcured and cooled, whereupon the finished article may be removed from the mold.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1986Date of Patent: April 26, 1988Assignee: Sheller-Globe CorporationInventors: Richard S. Gale, Robert L. Hanson, Michael L. Piechura, Richard E. Warnick
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Patent number: 4521365Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing elastomer surgical gloves or the like is disclosed. Ordinarily, a glove mold having a handshaped mold member with spaced fingers is dipped into a tank containing a liquid polymer. As the glove mold is slowly withdrawn, polymer latex webs tend to form between the fingers of the mold. In order to prevent the formation of these webs, small objects such as polyethylene balls are moved fairly rapidly along the surface of the polymer. These small objects pass through the spaces between the fingers to prevent the webs from forming.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1983Date of Patent: June 4, 1985Assignee: Bio Research Inc.Inventor: Leonard D. Kurtz
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Patent number: 4519098Abstract: Methods are provided for producing protective work gloves and other wearing apparel, having a variety of different protective and surface characteristics, as desired, without any separate cutting, knitting or sewing operations, and wearing apparel so produced by such methods. The method includes, for example, developing a work glove including its liner in a series of steps applied sequentially to a single form moving through a production line. The method eliminates the need for a separate operation for producing fabric liners including cutting, sewing and the manual loading of each individual liner on a form for subsequent dipping and coating operations. The resulting gloves may be moisture impervious or breathable, and have a variety of textured surfaces for various uses.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1983Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Robert W. Dunmire, Drew J. Miller, Michael D. Johnson
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Patent number: 4434126Abstract: A powder coating process for producing soft, flexible polyurethane films particularly in the form of a surgical glove, wherein low melting crystalline prepolymer particles are powder coated and cured to an essentially non-crystalline film.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1982Date of Patent: February 28, 1984Assignee: Warner-Lambert CompanyInventors: Charles W. McGary, Jr., Vincent J. Pascarella, Robert A. Taller, Delmer R. Rhodes, Paul E. Anglin, Charles W. Daugherty
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Patent number: 4390492Abstract: A method and apparatus provided for manufacturing elastomer gloves having percentage elongation of at least 300%. In order to prevent excess deposits of the polymer latex in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers when the hand-shaped molds are coated, by dipping, with the polymer, the surfaces of the mold in these areas are formed as non-rounded, non-horizontal inclined surfaces which join at an apex and define an included angle therebetween. This arrangement prevents the pooling of the polymer latex in the areas in question, this pooling being the cause of the excess deposits and being characteristic of prior molds of this general type. In order to provide sufficient coagulant around the sharp corners formed in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers so as to provide sufficient coating in those areas, it is necessary to use a heated mold and to provide sufficient dwell time and withdrawal time for the mold from the coating baths during the process.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1980Date of Patent: June 28, 1983Assignee: BioResearch Inc.Inventor: Leonard D. Kurtz
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Patent number: 4340348Abstract: A method and apparatus provided for manufacturing elastomer gloves having percentage elongation of at least 300%. In order to prevent excess deposits of the polymer latex in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers when the hand-shaped molds are coated, by dipping, with the polymer, the surfaces of the mold in these areas are formed as non-rounded, non-horizontal inclined surfaces which join at an apex and define an included angle therebetween. This arrangement prevents the pooling of the polymer latex in the areas in question, this pooling being the cause of the excess deposits and being characteristic of prior molds of this general type. In order to provide sufficient coagulant around the sharp corners formed in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers so as to provide sufficient coating in those areas, it is necessary to use a heated mold and to provide sufficient dwell time and withdrawal time for the mold from the coating baths during the process.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1981Date of Patent: July 20, 1982Assignee: BioResearch Inc.Inventor: Leonard D. Kurtz
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Patent number: 4335495Abstract: Fishing lure fabrication and assembly includes rapidly transferring a preselected pattern onto a tubular plastic coating or sleeve formed on a mandrel. Another pattern may be transferred onto a second tubular plastic coating or sleeve formed on the first sleeve, and a bond inhibitor may be used to prevent bonding of the two sleeves so that upon slitting of the sleeves the patterns on both sleeve strands will be visible. The product lure is also described and claimed. Only one pattern transfer step may be employed if desired. Patterns are also transferred onto lure heads.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1980Date of Patent: June 22, 1982Inventor: Beverly J. Buchanan
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Patent number: 4329312Abstract: Method of forming a rubber latex glove having a textured interior surface and a textured exterior surface, one of the textured surfaces being transfer textured and the other textured surface being formed by impact spray on a molded rubber latex film with liquid rubber latex droplets while the film is in uncured condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1975Date of Patent: May 11, 1982Assignee: Affiliated Hospital Products, Inc.Inventor: Rudolph V. Ganz
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Patent number: 4218418Abstract: Ingots are cast in silica containers in which the interior surface of the container is defined by a thin skin of high density glass behind which the silica wall varies in density and cristobalite phase content.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1978Date of Patent: August 19, 1980Assignee: Crystal Systems, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Schmid, Chandra P. Khattak
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Patent number: 4206169Abstract: A resinous coated metal film is produced by depositing metal on a support to form thereon a metal film and forming on the thus deposited metal film an autodeposited resinous coating. In one embodiment, the autodeposited resinous coated metal film is formed by immersing a metallic substrate in a modified autodepositing composition, that is, an autodepositing composition modified by the addition thereto of dissolved metal which is more noble than the metallic substrate. In another embodiment, a metal film is preformed on a metallic substrate, and thereafter the metallic substrate, having thereon the metal film, is contacted with an autodepositing composition. The metal film having thereon the autodeposited coating can be separated from the metallic substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1978Date of Patent: June 3, 1980Assignee: Union Carbide CorporationInventor: Wilbur S. Hall
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Patent number: 4102844Abstract: A method for the production of dipped articles of rubber latices, wherein rubber latices are used which have an average rubber-particle diameter of no more than 200 nm and contain a rubber having a Defo value of less than 2000, the rubber latices having been prepared by the polymerization of a monomer mixture of 85 to 50 parts by weight of butadiene and/or isoprene, 10 to 40 parts by weight of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile, 0 to 40 parts by weight of styrene, 0 to 10 parts by weight of acrylamide, methacrylamide and/or their methylol derivatives and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of an .alpha.-.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid, in aqueous emulsion in the presence of 0.5 to 6.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1976Date of Patent: July 25, 1978Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ernst Schwinum, Heinz Hornig, Martin Matner
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Patent number: 4082862Abstract: In the coating of rubber surfaces with adherent slip coatings the need for release agents is avoided by selecting as the slip coating a synthetic polymer latex composition consisting essentially of about 5 to 95% by weight of a film-forming, non-elastomeric synthetic polymer component (1) having an elongation of at least about 200% and about 5 to 95% of a normally solid, non-elastomeric, synthetic polymer component (2) exhibiting an elongation of below about 20% and a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.20, said slip coating having an elongation of at least about 200 up to 700%, a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.25 and a thickness of below about 0.005 inch.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1976Date of Patent: April 4, 1978Assignee: Sutures Inc.Inventors: Pascal E. Esemplare, Dennis Beeferman
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Patent number: 3967014Abstract: Rubber articles, such as surgeon's gloves, are provided with a synthetic resin slip coating by contacting the rubber surface with a synthetic resin latex composition. The slip coating is adherent to the rubber substrate and is very extensible without adverse effect. The synthetic resin slip coating includes from 5 to 90 percent by weight of a first resin copolymer component selected from the group consisting of vinyl chloride-alkyl acrylate copolymer, vinylidene chloride-alkyl acrylate copolymer, and vinyl acetate-alkyl acrylate copolymer, and correspondingly, from 95 to 10 percent by weight of a second resin copolymer component selected from the group consisting of vinyl chloride-vinyl ester copolymer, and vinylidene chloride-vinyl ester copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1975Date of Patent: June 29, 1976Assignee: Sutures, Inc.Inventors: Pascal E. Esemplare, Dennis Beeferman