US Patent 7536730 Fourchette for stretchable gloves

A glove formed of a flexible fabric, such as a natural or synthetic knit fabric, provides anterior and posterior portions having the outline of the phalanges and metacarpals of a human hand. A fourchette joins the anterior and posterior portions to one another. The fourchette has an arcuate shape prior to securement to the glove and thereby tends to curve the phalangeal portions of the glove. The fourchette extends to the lower edge of the cuff. Joints between the fourchette and the anterior and posterior portions maintain an opening formed by the cuff in an open position.