Patent ID: 9492953
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: B29C,B29K

Claim Text:
1. An improvement in a method for making an elongate glove on a porcelain mold having a hand-defining portion and having an arm-defining portion, which extends from the hand-defining portion and which has an overall length at least two or more times the overall length of the hand-defining portion, wherein the improvement comprises a step of sandblasting or texturing the exterior of at least the arm-defining portion of the porcelain mold before steps of dipping the porcelain mold successively into a bath containing a coagulating agent and into a bath containing a latex, then allowing the porcelain mold to dwell in the bath containing the latex until enough of the latex coagulates to form a wet latex film on the porcelain mold, and then withdrawing the porcelain mold having the wet latex film formed thereon from the bath containing the latex, and wherein the step of sandblasting or texturing produces a roughness average greater than 26 μm selected to control sliding of the latex down the porcelain mold.