High breathability cyclist hand glove
AssigneeLouis Garneau Sports Inc.
InventorLouis Garneau
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Abstract
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove including an exposed perforated palm area (12) and a few cushioning pads (16, 18) surrounding said palm area, said cushioning pads (16, 18) being closedly spaced from one another so as to define at least a few air channels being formed radially therebetween, said air channels for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from said perforated palm area, each one of said air channels (20, 22) destined to be narrower than the diameter of the bicycle handlebar so that the bicycle handlebar cannot close said air channels upon the hand globe hand engaging the biclycle handlebar.
Claims27
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove comprising:
- a) a main body made from a flexible sheet material for wrap-around a cyclist hand, said main body including an exposed central palm area;
- b) at least a few air and moisture circulation apertures made through said central palm area;
- c) at least one cushioning pad, made from a soft material and fixedly applied against said main body adjacent to but spacedly from said exposed central palm area thereof, said pad being much thicker than said main body sheet material;
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- d) an air channel member, merging with said palm area and opening outwardly of said cushioning pad, said air channel member forming both a fresh air intake port for providing outside air toward said palm area, and a moisture outlet from bodily moisture escaping outwardly from said palm area;
- wherein said air channel member cooperates with said at least one cushioning pad in preventing accidental sealing of said aperture of said palm area upon grasping engagement of said glove around the bicycle handlebar:
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove comprising:
- a) a main sheet body for wrap-around a cyclist hand, said main body including a central palm area;
- b) first channel means, integral to said central palm area for enabling both bodily moisture escape from said central palm area and fresh air intake into said central palm area;
- c) at least one cushioning pad, made from a soft material and fixedly applied against said main body adjacent to but spacedly from said central palm area thereof, said pad being much thicker than said main sheet;
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- d) second channel means, merging with said first channel means and opening outwardly of said cushioning pad, said second channel member forming both a fresh air intake port, for providing outside air to said first channel means, and a moisture outlet from enabling escape of moisture coming from said first channel means;
- wherein said second channel member means cooperates with said at least one cushioning pad in preventing accidental deactivation of said first channel upon hand grasping engagement of said glove around the bicycle handlebar.
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove including an exposed perforated palm area and a few cushioning pads surrounding said palm area, said cushioning pads being closedly spaced from one another so as to define at least a few air channels being formed radially therebetween, said air channels for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from said perforated palm area, each one of said air channels destined to be narrower than the diameter of the bicycle handlebar so that the bicycle handlebar cannot close said air channels upon the hand glove hand engaging the bicycle handlebar.
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove comprising:
- a) a main body made from a flexible sheet material and defining an inner face for wrap-around a cyclist hand, and an outer face including an exposed central palm area, said central palm area for engagement onto the bicycle handlebar;
- b) a plurality of air and moisture circulation apertures made through at least said central palm area of said flexible sheet material;
- c) at least three irregularly shaped clusters of cushioning pads, said clusters circumscribing said central palm area, each of said clusters of pads including at least a few said pads, said pads made from a compressible yet resilient material;
- each of said pads fixedly secured to said main body sheet material and being thicker than said main body sheet material and projecting outwardly from said outer face thereof;
- said clusters of pads being spaced from one another so as to define therebetween a corresponding number of successive radial air channels;
- said air channels for freely opening outwardly of said hand glove;
- each of said air channels forming both a fresh air intake, for providing outside air toward said palm area, and a moisture outlet, for escape of bodily moisture outwardly from said central palm area;
- wherein at least one of said air channels is sized to prevent accidental sealing of said apertures of said central palm area upon a cyclist grasping the bicycle handlebar with said hand glove.
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove made from a flexible hand enclosing sheet material and including a perforated palm area, said perforated palm area for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from the palm of the cyclist hand, wherein the surface area of said perforated palm area ranges between 0.5 and 1,500 mm2.
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove made from a hand-enclosing flexible sheet material and including an exposed perforated palm area and a few pads generally circumscribing said palm area, said pads being closely spaced from one another so as to define at least a few channels being formed therebetween, said exposed perforated palm area for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from the palm of the cyclist hand.
A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove made from a hand enclosing flexible sheet material and having a perforated palm area defining a plurality of bores, said perforated palm area for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from the palm of the cyclist hand, wherein the surface area of said perforated palm area is about 2,580 mm2.
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