Protective disposable hand covering

A protective, disposable hand covering comprising:

• a hand covering body having a length, an interior space for receiving a human hand through an opening and an exterior surface;
• a tear line on the hand covering body extending from an initial point on the opening across the exterior surface to end at a point different from its initial point, where the tear line is at least one groove within, but not piercing the hand covering body, in the absence of a rip cord to cause tearing of the tear line;
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• an outwardly protruding tab on the opening, where the tab has at least one side which is adjacent and contiguous with the tear line.

A protective, disposable hand covering comprising:

• a hand covering body having a length, an interior space for receiving a human hand through an opening and an exterior surface;
• an inverted cuff on the opening facing away from the opening;
• a tear line on the hand covering body extending from the inverted cuff at least partially along the length of the hand covering body, where the tear line is at least one groove within, but not piercing the hand covering body, in the absence of a rip cord to cause tearing of the tear line;
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• an outwardly protruding tab on the opening, where the tab has at least one side which is adjacent and contiguous with the tear line at the inverted cuff.