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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1981
Edwin O Lundell, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
George T Kwiatkowski, Green Brook, NJ (US);
Delmed, Inc., Canton, MA (US);
Abstract
A semi-rigid sterilizable biomedical article for use in handling vital fluids comprising a blend of about 20-50% medical grade radiation-stabilized polypropylene by weight, the balance being a copolymer of ethylene and a comonomer selected from the group consisting of (i) vinyl esters of saturated carboxylic acids having up to 8 carbon atoms in the acid moiety, and (ii) alkyl esters of .alpha.,.beta. ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms in the acid moiety and from 2 to 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety said comonomer comprising about 1-15 mole percent of the copolymer, said article having been irradiated to a dose of ionizing radiation ranging from about 1 to 35 Mrad.