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US 11,918,064 B2Granted
Protective glove with enhanced exterior sections
AssigneeWorld Fibers, Inc.
InventorsGregory V. Andrews, Rayvon A. Morton, Paul W. Cornelison, John D. Simmons
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Abstract
A protective glove includes a primary yarn that forms the palm, thumb and finger sections of the glove. The primary yarn has an interior surface forming the interior surface of the glove, and an exterior surface forming the exterior surface of the glove. A plaiting yarn can be plaited to portions of the exterior surface of the primary yarn to form a plurality of enhanced sections on the exterior surface of the glove. The enhanced sections can have at least one substantially enhanced physical characteristic in relation to the primary layer.
Claims7
A protective glove comprising:
- (a) a primary yarn defining a palm section, thumb section, index finger section, middle finger section, ring finger section and baby finger section, the primary yarn having an interior surface defining an interior surface of the glove and an exterior surface defining an exterior surface of the glove, wherein the primary yarn comprises a core comprising a first core strand of fiberglass and a second core strand of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene extending parallel to the first core strand, and a cover comprising at least one cover strand wrapped around the core;
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- (b) a first plaiting yarn comprising spandex plaited to portions of the exterior surface of the primary yarn and a second plaiting yarn comprising a hard particle-filled polyethylene fiber wherein the hard particles have a MOHS hardness of greater than three plaited to the first plaiting yarn to form a plurality of enhanced sections formed on the exterior surface of the glove, the plurality of enhanced sections having enhanced cut resistance in relation to the primary yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.