US 12,733,699 B2 · Multiple layer glove and method of manufacture

Abstract

A glove (10) with a first glove (12) rollingly attached to a second glove (16) having a tacky adhesive coating (14) during an open time between application of the adhesive coating and cure, which bondingly secures the first and second gloves together. A glove assembly apparatus (40) having a first form (50) for receiving a first glove (12), said first form (50) having five spaced-apart digital carriers (52) for receiving a respective digital portion of the first glove (12), and a second form (22) for receiving a second glove (16), said first form (50) movable relative to the second form (22) to roll the digital portions of the first glove (12) into contact with a tacky open adhesive coating layer on the second glove (16), and an apparatus for applying the adhesive coating, so that the first glove and the second glove bond together upon cure of the adhesive coating. A method of assembling a first glove to a second glove is disclosed.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A method of assembling a protective glove, comprising the steps of:

(a) positioning a first glove on a first form having five spaced-apart digital carriers;
(b) positioning a second glove on a second form;
(c) applying a coating of a long open tacky adhesive onto an outward surface of the second glove;
(d) moving the first form relative to the second form for rolling respective digital portions of the first glove onto aligned respective digital portions of the coated second glove from a digital tip to a crotch portion thereof;
(e) moving a cuff portion of the first glove longitudinally past the crotch portions of the second glove, whereby the second glove contactingly receives a palm portion and the cuff portion of the first glove;
and
(f) curing the tacky adhesive coating to bond the first glove to the second glove.

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An apparatus for assembly of a glove, comprising:

a first form for receiving a first glove and having five spaced-apart digital carriers with each of the digital carriers receiving a respective digital portion of the first glove;
a second form for receiving a second glove;
a frame to which the first form attaches, said first form movable from a first position with the digital carriers remote from but aligned with respective digital portions of the second form to a second position with the digital portions of the first glove rollingly received on a respective digital portion of the second glove from a respective digital tip to a crotch portion of the second glove,
whereby pulling a cuff portion of the first glove longitudinally past the respective crotch portions of the second glove brings a palm portion and the cuff portion of the first glove into contacting alignment with the second glove;
and
an applicator for applying a coating of a tacky adhesive with an open time on an outward surface of the second glove,
whereby the adhesive coating bonds the first glove and the second glove together upon cure of the adhesive coating.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Multiple layer glove and method of manufacture

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