A system and method for creating protective sports articles. The system includes a last. A liner of flexible material that defines a pocket is provided. A plurality of padding pieces are provided that each have a bottom surface and an adhesive disposed over the bottom surface. The method includes inserting the last into the pocket of the liner. The method also includes positioning the bottom surface of each of the padding pieces over the liner to engage the adhesive against the liner. The method further includes applying pressure to the padding pieces to bond the adhesive of the padding pieces to the liner to secure the padding pieces to the liner and to form a completed article. The method further includes removing the completed article from the last.

A system and method for creating protective sports articles. The system includes a last. A liner of flexible material that defines a pocket is provided. A plurality of padding pieces are provided that each have a bottom surface and an adhesive disposed over the bottom surface. The method includes inserting the last into the pocket of the liner. The method also includes positioning the bottom surface of each of the padding pieces over the liner to engage the adhesive against the liner. The method further includes applying pressure to the padding pieces to bond the adhesive of the padding pieces to the liner to secure the padding pieces to the liner and to form a completed article. The method further includes removing the completed article from the last.

Various embodiments disclosed relate to anti-static compositions and gloves made from the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a doped polyaniline comprising a dopant that is a polyacrylic acid; a polymethacrylic acid; a sulfonatocalixarene; a cyclodextrin sulfate; a compound having the structure:

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wherein R.sup.2 is chosen from substituted or unsubstituted (C.sub.1-C.sub.10)hydrocarbyl- and substituted or unsubstituted (C.sub.1-C.sub.10)hydrocarbyl-O—. L.sup.1 is substituted or unsubstituted (C.sub.1-C.sub.10)hydrocarbylene. L.sup.2 is chosen from a bond, —O—, —O—C(O)—, and —NH—C(O)—, and n is about 1 to about 100,000; a salt thereof; or a combination thereof.

A dip-formed article includes a laminate in which a rubber layer is laminated on a fiber base material. The thickness of the rubber layer is 0.2 to 0.8 mm, the rubber constituting the rubber layer penetrates into the fiber base material, the maximum depth to which the rubber has penetrated into the fiber base material is 0.1 to 0.3 mm, and the maximum stress at 50% elongation of the laminate is 20 N or smaller.

Provided are various gloves and protective articles with improved donning characteristics. The glove comprises an interior surface, and a polymer system coating the interior surface. The polymer system comprises one or more first polymers, each including an average particle size between 100 nanometers (nm) to 400 nm. The polymer system further comprises one or more second polymers, each including an average particle size in excess of 500 nm. The one or more first polymers may comprise a combination of one or more polymers including: butadiene based polymer and copolymer latices, isoprene based polymer and copolymer latices, copolymer latices prepared from styrene and acrylic monomers, and polyurethane copolymers. The one or more second polymers may include vinyl acetate polymers. The glove may be an elastomeric rubber glove coated with the polymer system in an amount between 0.0004 grams and 0.0016 grams on a dry basis.

Methods and processes are described that enable the manufacture of a superior thin-walled mold from which higher-quality, less-costly disposable gloves can be more efficiently produced. The method can include creating a glove form in a sacrificial material; electroforming an electroformed master from the glove form; removing sacrificial material from the electroformed master; creating a tertiary form from the electroformed master; forming an initial copper layering on the tertiary form; and developing the initial copper layering into a thick copper plating to create a copper mold for gloves.

Provided is a method of producing a glove, the method including: (1) the step of immersing a glove forming mold in a liquid coagulant containing calcium ions so as to allow the coagulant to adhere to the glove forming mold; (2) the step of adjusting the pH to be 9 or higher using an ammonium compound or an amine compound and leaving a glove emulsion composition to stand with stirring; (3) the dipping step of immersing the glove forming mold, to which the coagulant has thus adhered in the step (1), in the glove emulsion composition; (4) the gelling step of leaving the glove forming mold, to which the glove emulsion composition has thus adhered, to stand at a temperature for a period that satisfy specific conditions; (5) the leaching step of removing impurities from a cured film precursor thus formed on the glove forming mold; (6) the beading step of, after the leaching step, winding the cuff portion of the resulting glove; (7) the precuring step of heating and drying the cured film precursor that has been subjected to the beading step; and (8) the curing step of heating the cured film precursor at a specific temperature for a specific period to obtain a cured film.

A detachable glove comprising at least two layers that are separated by an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer includes a wetting agent, a latex coagulating agent, a synthetic organic polymer and water. A chlorinated detachable bi-layered glove and a method of manufacturing thereof. A polymer coated, detachable, bi-layered glove and a method of manufacturing thereof. A method of peeling a detachable bi-layered glove wherein the method includes (i) pulling cuff area of the outer glove layer until its circumference is detached from the inner glove layer and (ii) peeling off the outer glove layer once the full circumference of the outer glove layer is detached from the inner glove layer to yield the inner glove layer for further usage.

A glove stripping apparatus (15) for fully stripping a partially stripped elastomeric dip-moulded glove (2) from a hand-shaped dip-moulding former (4) comprises a gripping device (25) relatively movable with respect to a downwardly hanging cuff end portion (10), a gripping actuator (32), a stripping actuator (35) and a controller for controlling the operation of the actuators. The relative movement of the gripping device and the downwardly hanging cuff end portion is driven by the stripping actuator. The gripping device has first and second gripping members (24, 26) movable relative to each other by the gripping actuator. The gripping members provide opposed gripping surfaces (34, 36) for gripping the cuff end portion. The first gripping member and the second gripping member initially provide a horizontally extending gap between the gripping surfaces which receives the cuff end portion. The gripping members are moved to reduce the gap (40′) until the cuff end portion is restrained between the gripping surfaces with a beaded cuff end (3) of the glove being below the gap. The gripping members are moved downwardly (46) together towards the beaded cuff end so that the cuff end portion moves upwards relative to the gap until the beaded cuff end (3) is caught by the gap (40′). The downward movement is then continued until the glove is fully stripped from the dip-moulding former.

A layered, laminated glove includes an outer layer, a membrane formed from a liquid-resistant, air permeable material positioned on an inner surface of the outer layer and a liner formed from a moisture absorbing material. The liner is positioned on an inner surface of the membrane. The outer layer, membrane and liner are laminated to form a single glove. The glove includes a plurality of fingertip portions in which the outer layer, membrane and liner are substantially fully laminated throughout. The glove may include a 3D pattern formed in one or more layers of the laminate. The glove may include an enlarged knuckle section. A hand mold and system for making the gloves and a method are also disclosed.