NOVEL ARTICLE

• Main Authors: BIEDERMANN KIMBERLY, OTHS PHILIP
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.04.2012
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PAPER-MAKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE; PULP COMPOSITIONS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TEXTILES; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G

Aspects of the present invention are directed to personal protection articles, such as protective clothing, articles for sequential contact with multiple users, and cellulosic articles, which have their surface a coating formulation having activity to de-activate pathogenic micro-organisms, the coating comprising an acidic polymer, suitably the polymaleic acid material Gantrez™, a surfactant and an acid. Processes for making such articles, and suitable coating formulations are also disclosed.