Baseball or softball batting glove
AssigneeStinger Bat Co. LLC
InventorBrandon Eric Eaton
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Abstract
A batting glove for baseball or softball may include a glove base and a reinforcement layer set. The glove base may include a palmar region, a dorsal region located on an opposite exterior side of the batting glove from the palmar region, a plurality of finger regions, a wrist region at a bottom of the glove base, and an ulnar border region. The ulnar border region may be located along an outermost edge region of the glove base following a length of the little finger region along an outermost side of the little finger region. The reinforcement layer set may be connected to and exterior of the glove base in a manner that covers at least a portion of each of (a) the palmar region, (b) the ulnar border region, and (c) the dorsal region.
Claims19
A batting glove for baseball or softball comprising:
- a glove base including a palmar region, a dorsal region located on an opposite exterior side of the batting glove from the palmar region, a plurality of finger regions, a wrist region at a bottom of the glove base, and an ulnar border region, the plurality of finger regions including a little finger region and a ring finger region adjacent the little finger region, and the ulnar border region located along an outermost edge region of the glove base following a length of the little finger region along an outermost side of the little finger region;
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- a reinforcement layer set connected to and exterior of the glove base in a manner that covers at least a portion of each of (a) the palmar region, (b) the ulnar border region, and (c) the dorsal region,
- wherein, in a state in which the batting glove is flat with the plurality of finger regions extended and in which the batting glove is viewed in two dimensions from a direction facing and perpendicular to the palmar region, the at least the portion of the palmar region includes at least part of a line segment following a length of the ring finger region to the wrist region of the glove base, and
- wherein the reinforcement layer set covers (i) the at least the portion of the palmar region including the at least part of the line segment following the length of the ring finger region to the wrist region of the glove base, (ii) the at least the portion of the ulnar border region, and (iii) the at least the portion of the dorsal region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.