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US 4,445,507 AGranted
Glove with thumb restraint element
OwnerJoel H. Eisenberginventor
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Abstract
A glove having a retainer disposed adjacent to the outside of a thumb portion so as to restrict movement of the thumb portion away from the rest of the glove thereby preventing damage to certain ligaments of the user's thumb should the thumb be bent abnormally.
Claims10
A glove for preventing injury to the thumb's ulnar collateral ligament comprising:
- a hand covering having a thumb portion,
- said thumb portion having a retainer means disposed at least in part on the radial side of said thumb portion,
- said retainer means being inflexible in the radial direction, and when the wearer's thumb is in place in said thumb portion of said glove, said retainer means is disposed to extend over the thumb's metacarpal phalangeal joint and is of sufficient length to also extend over substantial portions of the adjacent bones which form the joint so as to generally immobilize the bones with respect to the joint in the radial direction whereby radial movement of the thumb which might injure the ulnar collateral ligament of the thumb is prevented.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.