Air Permeability of Rubber-impregnated Protective Gloves

  For the advantages of rubber gloves, we all know that the outer layer of rubber plays a very good oil, water, acid and Alkali protection, in the durability has improved. However, the disadvantages of rubber gloves are also very obvious, that is, the rubber is not breathable, in a hot environment, uncomfortable to wear, easy to sweat.

  During the development of gloves, the earliest protective gloves were made of leather or cloth. With the invention of the glove knitting machine, the variety of gloves became more abundant, until the advent of latex gloves more than a decade ago, the breathability of gloves became an unavoidable problem. Rubber-dipped gloves are softer and lighter than leather gloves, and more resistant to wear than yarn-knitted or fabric gloves, so they have been used for more than a decade. Generally speaking, dipped rubber gloves are mostly palm dip or semi-dip rubber, the back of the hand is exposed, so the operation is mainly to reduce costs, because the use of gloves, the basic is the palm and object contact, the back of the hand rarely participate in the Labor process. There is no glue on the back of the glove, which is thought to increase the breathability of the glove. Although the breathability of the glove is better than that of the fully-dipped Glove, it works because the sweat on the hands is mainly on the palms. In order to solve the problem of air permeability of palm thoroughly, rubber gloves can only be improved by dipping rubber coating. At present, foaming treatment is often used. Our market common foam gloves are mainly latex foam gloves, of course, nitrile can also process factory foam gloves, but in view of the technical conditions are relatively high, the market popularity in general. Latex foam gloves basically solve the problem of air permeability, because the rubber is treated, the structure has changed, wear resistance is relatively poor. On the current technical conditions, wear-resistant and breathable into a contradiction. PVC Foam gloves produced in Thuan Hung, Shandong Province, have not changed the wear resistance, still maintain the stability of PVC gloves, waterproof, anti-oil, anti-acid and Alkali, wear resistance. However, PVC foam gloves after foam processing, plus cotton lining, can solve some sweating problems, let workers wear gloves more comfortable.