BREATHABLE STATIC ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAMINATE

摘要

The invention concerns a laminate for use in a garment for a clean room environment where formation of static charge on clothing worn by a worker in the clean room may deleteriously affect work being conducted therein. The laminate has a high rate of water vapour transmission, thus providing a comfortable garment, blocks transmission of bacteria and submicron size particles, sheds particles, and does not itself form particles. The laminate comprises a layer of porous polymeric film adhesively bonded by a conductive adhesive to a textile fabric layer. The preferred porous polymeric film is of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The preferred adhesive is a solvent ased isocyanate-cured polyester adhesive containing electrically conductive carbon particles in sufficient amount to render the composite as a whole static electric charge dissipative.