Apparel – Guard or protector – Hand or arm
Patent
1996-11-12
1999-07-20
Hale, Gloria M.
Apparel
Guard or protector
Hand or arm
2 59, A41D 100
Patent
active
059241306
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a sleeve for protecting the arms of a wearer from contact with liquids that otherwise might have an adverse effect on the skin of the user.
There are many circumstances where it is desired to protect the arms from contact with fluids that have an adverse effect on the skin of the user. This is particularly the case where caustic or acidic solutions are used for cleaning. The difficulty generally does not arise where the hands are immersed into a bucket of cleaning liquid because water impervious gloves are usually worn, but rather where the hands are lifted above the horizontal and cleaning liquid runs down the gloves onto the arms.
It is known to provide for protection of the forearm, or even up to the shoulders in the form of a plastics sleeve but this protection is only intended to maintain cleanliness of the forearm. The use of a plastic sleeve however does not alleviate the problem of keeping liquid of the arms and such plastics sleeves only protect against a minimal amount of spill before cleaning liquid streams down the arms beyond the end of the plastics sleeves.
It has been suggested before to construct gloves that include a layer for retaining water on the outside of a water impermeable layer. The water retaining layer however is simply on the glove to act in much the same way as a sponge, so as to apply cleaning preparation without having separately to use a sponge. Examples of such suggestions can be found in British patent application GB2113977 and British application GB 899016. Scourer pads have also been suggested for use with such gloves, to add to their usefulness such as in British patent application GB2033731 or as in British Patent 21343171 to Koumbas. These gloves however are primarily concerned with applying cleaning fluid to the surface that requires cleaning, and have no regard for the more awkward problem of liquid running down a raised arm. In fact the use of such gloves exacerbates the problem because larger amounts of liquid are temporarily retained and progressively released down the arm.
It has also been suggested in Australian Patent specification 490155 (73535/74) to provide a surgical gown which includes a central operative field of the front panel of the gown having a fluid impervious material having an absorbent outer surface to absorb fluids that might come in contact with the central operative field. Use of an absorptive layer on the gown is said to minimise the amount of liquid run-off.
There has however, to the inventor's knowledge, not been an article to provide protection to the arms of the wearer, that is convenient to use with gloves, that provides for secure and close fitting over the arm, is easy to carry, and to put on and discard, or to fit all user sizes.
Accordingly it is an object of this invention to provide a protective sleeve that protects arms of a user against unwanted contact with a fluid that obviates or minimises any one of the aforementioned problems in a simple yet effective way, or at least provides the public with a useful choice.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In a broad form and not necessarily the broadest or only form the invention could be said to reside in a protective sleeve including fastening means to fasten around an arm of a wearer so as to be retained in position, said protective sleeve including an inner layer of water proof material extending the length of the sleeve, an outermost layer of absorptive material covering said inner layer circumferentially so as to retard liquid run off along the sleeve, said sleeve extending to the upper arm of the user.
The fastening means may be in the form of an elasticised section that fits around the wrist of the wearer. Conveniently the sleeve is fitted over the arm and secured, and waterproof gloves are fitted over the outer end of the sleeve so that there is considerable overlap consequently a sealing fit of the sleeve over the arm is not required.
Alternatively the fastening means might include a loop that hooks over the thumb of a user, t
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Bennett Timothy D.
Emerson Roger D.
Hale Gloria M.
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