Rubber Gloves: Dipped on a Form, Lined and Turned Inside Out (Miller, 1915)

Seamless rubber gloves are made by dipping a hand-shaped form into a rubber solution, coat after coat. Thomas Miller of the Faultless Rubber Company added a cloth lining. After the glove is cured on the form, fabric is fixed to its outside. Peeling the glove off turns it inside out, so the lining ends up inside and the wrist trim outside. Result: seamless rubber gloves lined with soft knitted fabric, whole or in parts, with a neat finishing strip at the wrist. Source: T. W. Miller (Faultless Rubber Co.), US Patent 1,146,638 (1915). Unknown: the rubber solution and its solvent, how many dips, the drying and curing conditions, and sizes. Ours: the curing oven and the knife. Picture: Wikimedia Commons (glove forms, 1938).