Patent ID: 8119200

Claim:
A method for preparing a flexible, liquid absorbent coated glove, comprising: fitting a glove liner onto a glove mold to form a treatment unit; applying to the glove liner of the treatment unit, an optionally foamed electrolyte solution to obtain a glove liner at least partially penetrated in a thickness direction with the electrolyte solution; drying the electrolyte solution penetrated glove liner of the treatment unit to remove at least part of a solvent of the electrolyte solution; applying a non-foamed dispersion of a polymeric material to a selected portion of the dried electrolyte penetrated glove liner of the treatment unit, by immersion in tank(s) comprising the non-foamed dispersion(s) of polymeric material, penetrating the dispersed polymeric material through at least a part of the thickness of the electrolyte penetrated glove liner such that for at least a portion of the glove liner, the polymeric material does not fully penetrate the glove liner, and wherein the polymeric material gells within the thickness of the glove liner upon encounter with the penetrated electrolyte and remains ungelled on a surface; creating impressions in the polymeric material by: (I) immersing the treatment unit with the glove liner having ungelled polymeric material on its surface into a tank of a foamed solution consisting of at least one of a surfactant, a tenside, an aerosol, and optionally, a soap, a gelling aid and benzyl alcohol, and (II) applying an aqueous or alcoholic solution of an electrolyte to the treatment unit after the immersion treatment to obtain a treated glove liner; placing the treated glove liner in a diffusion bath; heating the treated glove liner, after removal from the diffusion bath, to a temperature to cure or to stabilize the polymeric coating to form a glove comprising a liner adhered to polymer cured coating fitted onto a glove mould.