Dipping Synthetic Polymer Emulsions in Practice

Inevitably, refinements and modifications have to be added to the basic principles to yield a viable, commercial dipping process. This section describes some of the methodology used in achieving practical systems. Since at present the only significant use of synthetic emulsion polymers is with nitrile and polychloroprene latices for glove manufacture, the following notes are necessarily directed towards this area. 

Obviously the main requirement of a former for unsupported glove production, is to provide the shape of the desired final product In addition, however, the mix or coag- 

The production of fabric supported gloves requires special formers. Since these gloves are relatively difficult to stretch, the former is often designed with a moveable joint at the base of the thumb (or even a detachable thumb) to ease the task of removing the final product Clearly, many of the features required by formers for unsupported gloves are unnecessary for fabric supported work, where only the fabric Hner should contact the dipping mix. 

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