Patent ID: 7504145

Claim:
A cut resistant glove, including: a first thermoplastic polymer hand-shaped layer; a cut resistant infrastructure element attached to one or more portions of the first hand-shaped layer, each infrastructure element including: a thermoplastic polymer substrate; an array of small, regularly-spaced, generally uniform thickness, non-overlapping, hard, convex polygon-shaped, printed polymer material plates separated by gap sections, the plates arranged in a predetermined pattern free from extended-length straight gap sections and having an area parallel to the polymer substrate with major and minor length dimensions on a surface of the substrate, the major length dimension to minor length dimension aspect ratio between about 3 and 1, and wherein widths of the gaps between adjacent plates are substantially less than the lengths of the minor dimensions, a thickness of the plates is substantially less than the length of the minor dimensions, and the overall cut resistance of the infrastructure element is substantially greater than a cut resistance of the polymer substrate; and a heat seal seam between the polymer substrate and the first hand-shaped layer to attach the infrastructure element to the first hand-shaped layer with the plates facing the first hand-shaped layer; a second thermoplastic polymer hand-shaped layer; and a heat seal seam between the first and second hand-shaped layers to attach the first and second hand-shaped layers, the first and second layers forming a hand-shaped cavity.