Utility glove
AssigneeMadGrip Holdings, LLC
InventorDavid Gellis
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Abstract
A utility glove formed of a glove blank of a fabric material in the shape of at least a portion of a hand having one or more areas of elastomeric material injection molded thereon to form one or more three dimensional molded portions, the three dimensional molded portions being the fabric material with the elastomeric material bonded thereto, wherein one or more three dimensional molded portions leave at least one area of fabric material of the glove blank without elastomeric material bonded to the fabric. The fabric material of the glove blank can be made from one or more fabrics, a treated fabric, a coated fabric or combinations thereof, or the fabric may have a portion with a coating on an area without elastomeric material.
Claims18
A method of manufacturing a utility glove comprising the steps of:
- a. placing a glove blank comprising a fabric material over a first mold part in the form of at least a portion of a hand, said glove blank including a main body portion and at least one of a thumb and/or at least one finger;
- b. bringing at least one second mold part into molding relationship with the first mold part to create a cavity with the glove blank on the first mold part, said cavity corresponding to a three dimensional portion of the glove blank on the first mold part conforming to a three dimensional contour of a hand on at least one of the main body portion and at least one of the thumb and/or at least one finger but not the entire glove blank, and further wherein the cavity corresponds to over 50% of a circumference of the at least one of the thumb and/or at least one finger but not 100% of the entire length of the thumb and/or at least one finger, leaving at least an area of fabric on at least one of the thumb and/or at least one finger not corresponding to the cavity on which the at least one second mold part rests;
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- c. injecting an elastomeric material into the cavity onto the fabric of the glove blank to form a three dimensional molded portion conforming to the three dimensional contour of a hand.
A method of manufacturing a utility glove comprising the steps of:
- a. placing a glove blank comprising a fabric material over a first mold part in the form of a hand, said glove blank including a thumb, four fingers and a main body portion having a terminal edge;
- b. bringing at least one second mold part into molding relationship with the first mold part to create a cavity with the fabric of the glove blank on the first mold part, said cavity corresponding to a three dimensional portion of the glove blank on the first mold part but not corresponding to the entire glove blank, wherein the cavity corresponds to over 50% of a circumference of at least one of the thumb and/or at least one finger but not 100% of the entire length of the thumb and/or at least one finger, including that the cavity does not correspond to the fabric at the terminal edge of the glove blank on which the second mold part rests, thereby maintaining an area of fabric without elastomeric material about the main body portion at the terminal edge of the glove blank;
- c. injecting an elastomeric material into the cavity to form one or more three dimensional molded portions;
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- d. removing the second mold part from said molding relationship with the first mold part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.