Protective gloves

A process for the manufacture of gloves comprising:

• a. pre-coating a light-weight textile fabric substrate on one side only with a dispersion consisting principally of nitrile-based polymer together with a proportion of polyvinyl chloride and soap, the dispersion being applied in a foamed condition and adhering to the outer surface of the fabric to fill its pores and interstices but not soaking completely through the fabric;
• b. curing the dispersion;
• c. superposing two plies of the pre-coated fabric with their pre-coated surfaces in contact;
• d. welding together the two pieces of the fabric along a welding zone in the shape of the outline of a hand;
• e. cutting out the shape thus defined using a shaped knife through the welding zone;
• f. turning the so-formed glove-shell inside out to bring the pre-coating to the outside;
• g. placing the inverted glove-shell onto a form in the shape of a hand;
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• h. dipping the form and the pre-coated outer surface of the glove shell mounted on the form into a liquid plastics material to provide an impervious outer coating, such outer coating being prevented from striking through into the fabric due to the pre-coating of the fabric.