US 2003/0199364 A1Published application

Gymnastics grip and process for making same

AssigneeBakado Enterprises Inc.

InventorJung Y. Mah

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Abstract

A gymnastics grip, and a process for making same, wherein the grip is for attachment to the wrist and fingers of a gymnast and has a palm portion defining a longitudinal axis, a palm face, and a finger end, and a dowel defining a dowel axis. The dowel is attached to the palm face adjacent the finger end, with the dowel axis transverse to the longitudinal axis, by a flap secured to the palm face by a first stitching passing through the flap and the palm face parallel to the dowel axis. A first portion of the flap extends from the first stitching to substantially surround the dowel, without intervening between the dowel and the first stitching, and is secured adjacent a free end thereof to the palm face by a second stitching passing through the free end and the palm face parallel to the first stitching.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A gymnastics grip comprising in combination:

a palm portion defining a longitudinal axis and comprising a palm face, a wrist end portion, means for securing the wrist end portion to a wrist of a gymnast, a finger end portion, and means for securing the finger end portion to at least one finger of the gymnast;
a substantially cylindrical dowel member defining a dowel axis;
means for attaching said dowel member to said palm face adjacent said finger end portion with said dowel axis in substantially transverse relation to said longitudinal axis, said dowel attaching means comprising a flap member secured adjacent to said palm face by one or more first rows of stitching passing through said flap member and said palm face in substantially parallel relation to said dowel axis, a first flap portion of said flap member extending in a first direction from said one or more first rows of stitching to substantially surround said dowel member in first encircling relation, said first flap portion being secured adjacent a free end thereof to said palm face by one or more second rows of stitching passing through said free end and said palm face in substantially parallel relation to said one or more first rows of stitching, wherein said one or more first rows of stitching are adjacent to said dowel member without said first flap portion intervening therebetween.

A process for making a gymnastics grip comprising the steps of:

(a) securing a flap member adjacent to a palm face of a palm portion and adjacent to a finger end portion of said palm portion, said palm portion defining a longitudinal axis, by applying one or more first rows of stitching passing through said flap member and said palm face in substantially transverse relation to said longitudinal axis;
(b) positioning a substantially cylindrical dowel member, defining a dowel axis, adjacent to said one or more first rows of stitching with said dowel axis in substantially transverse relation to said longitudinal axis;
(c) substantially surrounding said dowel member with a first flap portion of said flap member extending in first encircling relation about said dowel member from said first row of stitching, without said first flap portion intervening between said first row of stitching and said dowel member;
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(d) securing said first flap portion adjacent a free end thereof to said palm face by applying one or more second rows of stitching passing through said free end and said palm face in substantially parallel relation to said first row of stitching.

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