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US 2019/0054364 A1Published application
Sport Gloves
OwnerJohn Ramirezinventor
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Abstract
According to the various features characteristics and embodiments of the present invention which will become apparent as the description thereof proceeds, the present invention provides partially fingered gloves intended to increase the overall performance in sports activities including but limited to football and golf. Primarily because of its unique finger configurations, and/or grip enhancers, and/or hand protective properties, the present invention makes a glove more operable in various sports activities.
Claims20
A partially open hand cover, wherein said hand cover is a golf glove having connected dorsal and palmar portions;
- wherein said dorsal portion is designed to cover the back of a user's hand;
- wherein said palmar portion is designed to cover the entire palm of the user's hand;
- wherein said back and palmar portions have distal and proximal ends with a plurality of digital segments projecting from the distal ends;
- wherein the digital segment of the thumb is adapted to overlay the entire thumb of the user including the fingertip of said thumb;
- wherein the digital segment of the forefinger is adapted to overlay the entire forefinger of the user including the fingertip of said forefinger;
- wherein the digital segment of the middle finger is adapted to overlay the entire middle finger of the user including the fingertip of said middle finger;
- and
- wherein said middle finger digital segment also comprises of an aperture along the digital segment of the middle finger segment leaving at least a portion of the proximal phalangeal of the user's middle finger, uncovered when the glove is worn;
- wherein said aperture extends along a dorsal portion of said middle finger digital segment, such that the user gripping a golf club can touch the uncovered skin portion of said middle finger with the skin of the pinkie finger of the user's opposite hand when gripping a golf club using a conventional overlapping or interlocking grip method;
- and
- wherein said glove also leaves at least one of the remaining two fingers of the user at least partially covered.
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A new and improved sports glove that allows greater tactile contact while completing a task in a sport, comprising:
- a partially open hand cover, wherein said hand cover is a glove having connected dorsal and palmar portions;
- wherein said dorsal and palmar portions having distal and proximal ends with a plurality of digital segments projecting from the distal ends;
- wherein said glove palmar portion is adapted to overlay the entire palm surface of a user's hand when the glove is worn;
- wherein said glove comprises of a digital segment of the thumb;
- said thumb digital segment is adapted to overlay the entire thumb of the user including the fingertip of said thumb;
- wherein said glove comprises of a digital segment of the forefinger;
- said forefinger digital segment is adapted to overlay the entire forefinger of the user including the fingertip of said forefinger;
- wherein said glove comprises of a digital segment of the middle finger;
- said middle finger digital segment is adapted to overlay the entire middle finger of the user including the fingertip of said middle finger;
- wherein said middle finger digital segment further comprises of an aperture that is substantially along the dorsal portion of the glove middle finger digital segment;
- wherein said aperture leaves at least a portion of the proximal phalanx of the user's middle finger uncovered;
- said aperture on the dorsal portion of the middle finger segment is of substantial size such that it enables the exposed skin of the user's middle finger to touch the skin of the user's opposing ungloved hand or a sport device;
- and thereby allowing enhanced tactile sensations in hand coordination when actively playing a sport;
- and,
- wherein said glove also leaves at least one of the remaining two fingers of the user at least partially covered.
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A method of swinging a golf club comprising the following steps:
- a. providing a partially open hand cover, wherein said hand cover is a golf glove having connected dorsal and palmar portions;
- wherein said dorsal portion is designed to cover the back of a user's hand;
- wherein said palmar portion is designed to cover the entire palm of the user's hand;
- wherein said back and palmar portions have distal and proximal ends with a plurality of digital segments projecting from the distal ends;
- wherein the digital segment of the thumb is adapted to overlay the entire thumb of the user including the fingertip of said thumb;
- wherein the digital segment of the forefinger is adapted to overlay the entire forefinger of the user including the fingertip of said forefinger;
- wherein the digital segment of the middle finger is adapted to overlay the entire middle finger of the user including the fingertip of said middle finger;
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- wherein said middle finger digital segment also comprises of an aperture along the digital segment of the middle finger segment leaving at least a portion of the proximal phalangeal of the user's middle finger, uncovered;
- wherein said aperture extends along a dorsal portion of said middle finger digital segment, such that the user gripping a golf club can touch the uncovered skin portion of said middle finger with the skin of the pinkie finger of the user's opposite hand when gripping a golf club using a conventional overlapping or interlocking grip method;
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- wherein said glove also leaves at least one of the remaining two fingers of the user at least partially covered;
- b. placing said golf glove a non-dominant hand of said user;
- c. gripping said golf club using said overlapping or interlocking grip method;
- d. touching said uncovered middle finger skin portion of the non-dominant hand with the skin of the pinkie finger of the user's opposite hand;
- e. swinging the golf club,
- thereby allowing enhanced tactile sensations in hand coordination when completing a unified golf swing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.