Sleeve-glove attachment assembly for protective coveralls

A sleeve-glove attachment assembly in combination with protective coveralls for providing protection to a wearer of the coveralls in a hazardous environment, said coveralls having a torso portion, two leg portions and two sleeve portions each including a forearm portion terminating at a wrist opening, said sleeve portions being adapted to attachably receive a glove with a cuff, the sleeve-glove attachment assembly comprising:

• a separate inner sleeve attached at an attachment location on the interior of the forearm portion of said sleeve portions and terminating adjacent said wrist opening;
• complementary hook and loop fastening tapes on the outside of said inner sleeve and the inside of said cuf to attach said glove to said inner sleeve;
• a slit-like sleeve opening in said sleeve portions extending into said sleeve portions from said wrist opening and terminating proximate said attachment location of said inner sleeve;
• a sleeve zipper for closing said slit-like sleeve opening in said sleeve portions;
• an elongate sleeve flap attached to said sleeve portions along and adjacent said sleeve zipper on one side of said sleeve opening, said sleeve flap having a length at least as long as said sleeve opening and with a width sufficient to cover the sleeve zipper and provide an overlapping portion which overlaps said sleeve portions on the opposite side of the sleeve opening;
• complementary hook and loop fastening tapes on the underside of the overlapping portion of said sleeve falp and the exterior of the sleeve portions to secure said sleeve flap covering said sleeve zipper;
• a strap having one end attached to the edge of the lower area of said sleeve flap and extending along the lower edge of said sleeve portions and having a length sufficient to extend at least partially around said sleeve portions;
• complementary hook and loop fastening tapes on the underside of said flap and the exterior of the sleeve portions to adjust the size of the wrist opening of said sleeve portions;
• a slit-like cuff opening in said cuff of said glove;
• a cuff zipper for closing said slit-like cuff opening in said cuff;
• an elongate cuff flap attached to said cuff along and adjacent said cuff zipper on one side of said cuff opening,
• said cuff flap having a length at least as long as said cuff opening and a width sufficient to cover the cuff zipper and provide an overlapping portion which overlaps said cuff on the opposite side of the cuff opening;
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• complementary hook and loop fastening tape son the underside of the ovelapping portion of the cuff flap and the exterior of said cuff to secure said cuff flap covering said cuff zipper;
• said sleeve portions being dimensioned so that said sleeve poritons receive said cuff of said glove attached to said inner sleeve and snugly contacts said cuff when siad sleeve zipper closes said slit-like sleeve opening.