Appeal No. 95-3875
Application 08/049,613
wherein after the glove has been formed from a natural rubber latex, but before the
latex is cured, an antimicrobial layer is applied to the inner surface of the glove (col. 1,
2
lines 44-51; col. 5, lines 27-34). The antimicrobial layer is a low coefficient of friction
elastomeric layer which includes an antimicrobial agent (col. 4, lines 7-27; col. 5, lines
3
27-34). Stockum states that the antimicrobial agent is expensive and that because the
inner layer is a minor portion of the glove, the glove is more economical than it would
be if the antimicrobial agent were incorporated in the entire glove (col. 1, line 66 - col.
2, line 2).
Stephenson discloses coating any of a variety of surgical aids with an ionically
bonded block elastomeric copolymer of a polyquaternary polyurethane and a
polyanionic polymer such as heparin (col. 1, lines 45-51; col. 2, lines 11-13). A surgical
aid so coated is receptive to treatment with an anionic or cationic antimicrobial
compound, and the antimicrobial compound can be applied by immersing the surgical
aid in an aqueous solution of the compound and then either drying the surgical aid or
using it without the drying step (col. 1, lines 51-52; col. 6, lines 27-31). The
antimicrobial compound is retained by the elastomeric heparin polymer and is slowly
2Optionally, the antimicrobial layer can be applied to both the inside and outside
surfaces of the glove (col. 2, lines 3-6).
3Alternatively, the antimicrobial agent can be included in a cornstarch powder
layer, but such a powder layer is applied after the glove has been cured (col. 2, lines
56-59; col. 2, line 62 - col. 3, line 2).
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