The Texwipe Company LLC

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Edward Paley

Steven J Paley

Himansu R Bhattacharjee

Himangshu R Bhattacharjee

Charles F Mattina

Arthur Jacob

Vincent C Caputo

Clifford A Eberhardt

Anti-static cleanroom products having a coating of conductive polymeric particulates which decreases the surface resistivity of the products. Preferably, the particulates are pyrrole polymers. The anti-static properties are achieved by depositing conductive polymer particles onto the non-conductive substrate surface. The anti-static products include cleanroom wipers, stationery products (notebooks and writing instruments), garments and swabs (polyurethane foam tipped). The cleanroom stationery products include notebooks comprising polyethylene impregnated with silica. The invention also includes anti-static plastic gloves.

Anti-static cleanroom products and methods of making same

Anti-static cleanroom products and methods and methods of making same

An article of manufacture, such as a wiper, especially suited for use in a controlled environment, such as a cleanroom environment, and a method for controlling the entry of deleterious particles into the controlled environment, within which environment a process is carried out, the article being constructed of fibers of a synthetic polymeric material of the type including only constituents which are relatively benign in that the included constituents will be less likely to have a deleterious effect upon the process carried out in the controlled environment or upon the product of that process, the method including constructing the article of such fibers, the preferred synthetic polymeric materials including no more than only negligible amounts of inorganic constituents or metallic constituents, one such preferred synthetic polymeric material being nylon bright.

Particulate contamination control in cleanrooms

The feed surfaces of feed rollers along the paper path of an imaging machine are cleaned by passing a cleaning sheet along the paper path through the imaging machine, the cleaning sheet including a substrate carrying a coating of synthetic polymeric material in a pattern which assures contact between the coating and the feed surfaces to be cleaned, the material of the coating having a tack which enables the coating to pick off particles of unwanted material from the feed surfaces and capture the picked-off particles for movement with the cleaning sheet along the paper path and out of the machine.

Cleaning sheet and method for cleaning paper path feed roller surfaces

A method and a wiper for reducing particulate contamination which otherwise might result from the use of the wiper in a controlled environment, such as that maintained in a cleanroom, the wiper being of the type constructed at least partially from a thermoplastic fabric material by severing the wiper along peripheral edges thereof from a sheet of such material having indeterminate dimensions, the method and the wiper providing a fused border in the material along the peripheral edges of the wiper and extending inwardly into the wiper a distance great enough to provide the fused border with sufficient area and sufficient tear-strength to maintain therein segments of the material of the wiper which otherwise might be released from the peripheral edges of the wiper during use of the wiper, yet small enough to maintain pliability and absorbency in the wiper for wiping procedures. In one embodiment of the wiper, two outer plies of the material are joined along the fused border to establish a sealed envelope within which is placed an inner ply of absorbent material isolated from the controlled environment by the outer plies of material and the fused border.

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