Patent ID: 6904615
Filing Date: 2005-06-14
Classification: A63B,B25G,B29C,B29K,B32B,B62K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a manual gripping activity where a user wears a slip control inhibiting glove to create a frictional interface between the user's glove and a surface of an article being gripped, the improvement which comprises: disposing identical material surfaces on opposed contacting surfaces of the glove and article being gripped to define an effective frictional interface therebetween in both wet and dry conditions, each surface being a stem web defined by an array of 100 to 10,000 upstanding stems/inch each upstanding stem being formed from an elastomeric material having a Shore hardness of less than about 90A, having a maximum cross sectional dimension of 0.003 to 0.030 inches, and having a height of less than 0.050 inches, so that each stem is highly flexible, each stem web having a static coefficient of friction when dry of at least 0.6, and each stem web individually having a soft and pleasant feel for skin contact, and when the opposed contacting surfaces of the glove and the article being gripped are engaged, each stem web having a dynamic shear strength of at least 16,805 dynes/centimeter