Inward Heating of Metal Former

My gut feeling is that it may be theoretically possible..it would be horribly complicated and unreliable to actually impement.

Maybe electrically heating the formers?

But what exactly is the drying/curing process? is it just heat or does it need the airflow.

My guess is the best way forward is to try and minimise your heat loss, re-cycle the hot air from one oven to next. Keep it simple..

(Not my field of expertise so I reserve the right...blah..blah..blah)

Good luck

Del

The formers would seem to be acting like a heat sink during this process to keep the gloves from absorbing too much heat from the hot air... if you instead heated the formers, you would have to pulse the heat flow, via a hot liquid or something to keep from melting the latex. All together, Del is right... It's possible - but far more complex, error prone, expensive to implement, and at the end of the day may not save any energy or money once all costs (increased maintenance, etc.) are considered.