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Leather Glove Construction and Styles

Basic Leather Work Glove Construction

 

Leather tanning process

Various types of leather tanning processes are used depending on the type of  leather – some of them are given below.

 

Vegetable Tanned Leather - Vegetable tanned is using tannin & other ingredients found in vegetable matter, tree bark & other natural sources. It is the only leather which suitable for use leather covering & stumping.

Tanned Leather - Chrome tanned leather is tanned using chromium sulfate & other salts of chromium. It’s suppler than vegetable tanned & does not discolor quickly. It is also called wet blue for its color comes from chromium.

Alddehyde Tanned Leather - This tanned leather using glutaraldehyde or oxazolidine compounds. It is the main type of chrome free leather, often seen in shoes of infants & automobiles.

Synthetic Tanned Leather – Leather that is tanned is using aromatic polymers. This leather is white in color.

Alum Tanned Leather - This is leather tanned using aluminum salts mixed with various natural proteins such as egg yolk, wheat flower etc.

Rawhide - Raw hide is made by scraping the skin thin; soaking it in lime & then stretching it white it dries.

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Cuts used for work gloves

Clute Cut – This work glove style is a one pieces palm with no seam at the base of the finger. There are seams along the finger on the inside, closer to the working area.

Gunn Cut - A type of work glove construction that has no seams on the back but there is a seam at the base of the middle finger.

 

Thumb Styles for work Gloves

Straight Style - This type of glove thumb with a basic design that points vertically.

Wing Thumb Style - A type of glove thumb cut from same pieces of material as the palm and extends to the side when the leather work gloves are laid flat.

Keystone Style - A special type of glove thumb style that conforms to the original shape and position of the thumb; results in superior moment & comfort and is an excellent choice when choosing leather work gloves due the added stiffness of the glove in general when it come to work gloves made from leather.

Leather Glove Cuff Styles

 

Gauntlet Cuff - This cuff design for extra protection for the forearm. Usually it’s size 4.5”. Slides on & off easily & allows for maximum movement of forearm. The main advantage is it gives wrist & some forearm protection & disadvantage is it has extra weight and over kill if you don’t need protection.

Knit Wrist Cuff - A glove knit cuff design to fit snugly to the wrist but its disadvantage is it’s not good in a job where the work glove needs to come on and off frequently.

Safety Cuff - Its gives more wrist protection but is it acts as a funnel for things to fall into the work glove. However this depends highly on the type of job you have?

Leather Glove Linings

 

Cotton - Best use in leather hand glove for greater comfort & absorption ability. (Both for thick cotton cloth & thin cotton cloth & canvas clothe)

Thinsulate - Highly cut resistant glove material that is suitable for those gloves which are specially design for welding purpose.

Kevlar - Aramid fibers, generic name for aromic polyamide fibers, casting of synthetic polyamides in which at least 85% of the aride linkages are directly attached to aromatic ring, it highly out resistance & heat resistance material Kevlar is a trademark of the Dupont company.

Polyester/Fleece Cloth - It has great comfort level but low absorption ability. Also available in cotton fleece cloth.

 

Leather Work Glove Facts

Work gloves protect your hands, however leather work gloves add a level of protection second to no other type of glove. Additionally, there are many specific functions where a leather glove is the only type of glove that will do.

Exploring some of the types of work that require gloves, let's take a look at a household function like yard work and/or gardening. Now normally many of us would just grab a pair of simple cotton work gloves and get to work. Problem is those thorns, sticks and other sharp objects will poke right through an ordinary pair of cotton gloves and a pair of cut resistent work gloves is really financial overkill for the most part.

Now replace those gloves with a quality pair of leather work gloves and you now have a glove that works excellent out in the garage, in the yard or practically any chore that needs to be done around the house and you've added a level of protection for your hands unmatched by any other type of glove for the money.

Surprisingly, most people don't realize how inexpensive it is to have and use quality leather work gloves since most of the places people shop for gloves like your Home Depots and Lowes type supermarts charge way more than you need to pay.

Just about any glove on our site comes in substantially lower than these superstores because we simply eliminated the many middlemen it takes to get products to those places. When you order from The Safety Source your leather gloves are on average 50% less than big box retailers.

Check out this comparison:

Dewalt Premium Grain Goatskin Driver Glove - Large: 17.99 per pair

Safety Source Premium Goatskin leather  drivers glove - $6.32 per pair (12 pair min)

Protecting your Vision with Safety Eyewear

Over 2 million eye injuries occur yearly! An estimated half of these eye injuries result in varying degrees of eyesight loss. Approximately 90% of these eye injuries could have been prevented by properly suited protective eyewear and safety goggles.

Protective eyewear is required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, (OSHA) in all U.S. states where potential harm to your eyes exists in the workplace. Protective eyewear includes safety eyewear, safety goggles, prescription safety glasses and shaded safety eyewear. Virtually all employers provide safety eyewear for their employees. However, protective eyewear needs do not stop there.

Often overlooked, protective eyewear needs exist regularly in the everyday lives of all individuals. Everyday tasks such as cutting the lawn, trimming, edging changing fluids in machinery are just several of many day-to-day tasks that can benefit from the use of protective eyewear. This is why it is important that protective eyewear be present in the homes, garages and toolboxes of everyone.

Just as important, making sure that your eye protection device, whether it be safety glasses, safety goggles or prescription safety glasses, meets all applicable standards for effective eye protection. Proper protective eyewear needs to effectively protect your eyes from direct and indirect forms of harmful substances including particulates, liquids, foreign objects and projectiles.

OSHA guidelines state that protective eyewear meet the ANSI-Z87.1 - 2003 standards for all protective eyewear. In short, the standard defines the overall scope, frame construction, impact resistance, lens thickness, identification and markings for all safety glasses and safety goggles intended for protective eyewear usage. A detailed summary of the ANSI Z87.1-2003 Standard can be found here. The entire standard is available for purchase at ANSI.ORG.

Protective eyewear is very inexpensive, with many styles costing under $10.00, adding one more reason for making sure that safety eyewear is available wherever risk to your vision exists. In addition, protective eyewear is available in many styles, shades and sizes. From sleek stylish safety glasses to over existing eyeglass protective eyewear, choosing to always have eye protection devices handy is a wise accident prevention choice.

The Safety Source stocks over a hundred styles of affordable protective eyewear in our catalog of eye protection. Our inventory of protective eyewear includes a full line of clear safety glasses, shaded safety glasses, anti-fog safety glasses, safety goggles and protective eyewear accessories.