Hygienic protective shield

Claim 1

An hygienic protecting shield for an object, such as a seat shield, a protecting glove, a shield for a thermometer or other temperature sensing devices, and a shield for other instruments, which shield comprises: two adjacent plastic foils at least one of which is at least the same length as the part of the object to be received in the shield; at least one covering foil arranged on the outside of each of the two plastic foils to form at least four foil layers, the covering foils being shorter than the plastic foils and further arranged thereon to expose one end of the plastic foils; means removably attaching each covering foil to the adjacent plastic foil and sealing the plastic foils to each other along a line defining an object-receiving space between the plastic foils which is a least partly cut off from the remaining parts of the plastic foils and has an opening for receiving the object at the exposed end of the plastic foils, the attaching and sealing means being spaced inwardly from at least a portion of an edge of the foils which is sufficiently close to the exposed end of the plastic foils and adapted in combination with the covering foils for facilitating a sidewise tearing of the object-receiving part of the plastic foils from the covering foils and the remainder of the plastic foils; and a stiffening strip on the exposed end of each plastic foil which overlaps the corresponding covering foil, whereby the object-receiving part of the plastic foils is covered with the covering foils and stiffening strips until the shield is used to prevent contamination thereof and, for use, the object can be inserted between the stiffening strips into the object-receiving space between the plastic foils and the stiffening strip and the end portion of the shield then grasped and easily separated to provide an hygienic foil shield about the object.