US 2016/0235137 A1Published application

Glove system having fastening means allowing a user to easily don and doff each glove

AssigneeAlfredo Infante

InventorAlfredo Infante

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Abstract

A pair of protective gloves each glove having a glove body with finger portions that can be preselectively webbed together or each finger can be kept separated. The gloves are capable of withstanding heat, cold, puncture, shock and other similar hazards. One of the gloves includes an engagement member such as a magnetic member on the inner wrist portion of the glove that cooperates with an anchoring member on the inner wrist portion of the opposite glove that can be made of a ferromagnetic material to attract both gloves to each other. Once attracted a user can use a lip on the anchoring member to leverage his hands out of the gloves, thereby preventing the user from having to come in contact with the outside of the glove bodies when donning and doffing the gloves. Optionally, the wrist portions of the glove assemblies can be fitted with a zipper to keep the interior cavity of the gloves sealed while being washed.

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Dependent claims

A glove system including a male and female glove assembly, each having a distal end located near fingertip portion and a distal end located near a wrist portion, said male and female glove assemblies cooperating to engage at the inner wrist portions of each of said glove assemblies using fastening means, said fastening means include an engagement member on said male glove assembly and an anchoring member on said female glove assembly, said anchoring member having a base, two sides and a top portion defining a space, said top portion including a downwardly extending lip that extends towards said base, said engagement member having an extension that projects away from said engagement member towards said fingertip portion, said engagement member having a thickness, said extension having a thickness that is smaller than said thickness of said engagement member, said space having a depth configured to matingly engage said extension, thereby allowing a user to free one hand at a time from said glove assemblies while said glove assemblies remain attached, thereby allowing a user to free one hand at a time from said glove assemblies while said glove assemblies remain attached.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.