[INCH-POUND]
A-A-50386
13 March 1991
COMMERCIAL ITEM DESCRIPTION
GLOVES, MEN’S AND WOMEN’S
This Commercial Item Description is authorized for use in preference to MIL-G-24909.
Description. The gloves shall be slip on style with sewn in bolton thumb and shall have one piece fourchettes, top opening with turned under hem and a cut and sewn fabric liner. The thread used for stitching shall be of any commercial type suitable for the purpose intended. The color of the thread used for stitching the leather shall be black, approximating the color of the leather and the color of thread used for stitching the liner shall be natural. When stitching the liner finger tips to the shell finger tips, the stitching shall go over or into the existing stitches at the finger tips. The chain portion of the stitching shall be on the inside of the glove. The stitch type for seaming, the seam type, stitch gauge and stitch length shall produce adequately durable seams throughout the gloves.
Material. The tranks shall be cut from leather conforming to type A, class 2, sub-class, of KK-L-254. The minimum wet and dry colorfastness shall be Munsell 7.5 (wet) and Munsell 8.5 (dry). The leather shall have a thickness of 1-1/2 to 2-1/4 ounces. Folds or wrinkles more than 1/16 inch wide in the flat are not acceptable. The requirements for total ash, chromic oxide, and pH are not applicable. The leather shall not discolor the water in the shrinkage temperature test. The leather shall be developed dyed black and shall approximately match shade number 27038 of FED-STD-595. The color shall be uniform throughout, and shall completely penetrate the leather from the grain side to the flesh side. NOTE: A developed dye is a skin whose color is obtained by the application of a dye, subsequent application of a suitable nitrite, followed by a developer.
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