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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
James M. D. Woodford, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Loo Liong Yu, Selangor, MY;
James M. D. Woodford, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Loo Liong Yu, Selangor, MY;
Ansell Healthcare Products LLC, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process for producing an article in a flexible foamed polymer material, including treating a former with a coagulant; dipping the treated former in a latex foam mixture to form a layer of the mixture on the former that includes air cells; curing the layer to gel the foam mixture to a cross-linked open cell structure; and stripping the layer from the former; where the latex foam mixture includes a natural latex polymer as a primary polymer component, and a synthetic latex polymer as a secondary polymer component, which synthetic latex polymer is selected to enhance the evenness and/or fineness of said open cell structure.