Plastic glove having a trigger finger and provided with lateral receptacles and related method and tooling

DETAILED DESCRIPTION FIG.
1 illustrates a roll 10 of plastic film 12 having a sequence of sections provided therein.
The sequence includes, for example, sections 14 and 16 which are separated or separable along lines or rows of perforations such as indicated at 18.
The sections are inclusive of individual gloves such as for example gloves 20 and 22 having respective contours 24 and 26 which define thumb, forefinger and further receptacles.
The further receptacles are capable of accommodating the three remaining fingers of the hand of a user.
The gloves are formed of thin films of plastic such as polyethylene which are placed in face-to-face relationship and provided with peripheral and interior as well as lateral seals capable of forming the gloves and providing the various above-mentioned receptacles therein as well as two further lateral receptacles which have many and various usages.
The details of one specific glove are shown in FIG.
2 along with the relevant dimensions of various sections of the illustrative glove.
In FIG.
2 the example glove is indicated at 30.
It includes a peripheral contour 32 which defines a thumb receptacle 34, a forefinger receptacle 36 and a further receptacle 38 which is capable of accommodating three fingers as has been mentioned hereinabove.
The contour 32 is formed of a seal, the inner portion of which is an extremity of the glove and the outer portion of which is discarded.
The section is also provided with two peripheral seals indicated at 40 and 42.
These peripheral seals 40 and 42 constitute lateral-edge seals which define the lateral extremities of the section being described.
At the lower edge of the illustrated glove are the distal edges 44 and 46.
These edges are separated from each other by a distance S which is in the order of magnitude of one-eighth of an inch.
The reason for the spacing of these distal edges which are distal from the receptacles 34, 36 and 38 is to permit ready separation of the same and thereby access to the interior 48 of the glove through the throat 50 between the interior seals 52 and 54