Patent ID: 8137606

Claim:
A process for making a lightweight flexible glove, comprising: a) creating a glove-shaped knitted liner having a plurality of stitches made from one or more yarns having a total denier of approximately 221 or less with the spacing between the stitches being approximately one to approximately three times the diameter of the yarn; b) placing the knitted liner on a hand-shaped ceramic or metallic former; c) dipping the former and the knitted liner in a coagulant solution; d) withdrawing the former and the coagulant coated knitted liner; e) dipping the former and the coagulant coated liner into a tank containing an aqueous polymeric latex emulsion so that the polymeric latex emulsion penetrates half way or more through a thickness of the knitted liner and for at least a portion of the knitted liner, the polymeric latex emulsion not penetrating the entire thickness of the knitted liner; f) gelling the polymeric latex emulsion on a surface of the coagulant coated knitted liner and at interstices between yarns of the knitted liner; g) withdrawing the former and the knitted liner coated with gelled polymer latex coating; and h) heating the former and the knitted liner coated with gelled polymer latex coating to a temperature to vulcanize the latex coating to form a cured glove with knitted liner adhered to polymer latex cured coating; wherein the polymeric latex coating has a thickness in a range of 0.75 to 1.25 times the knitted liner.