Interlocking batting gloves employing hook and loop fasteners
OwnerG. Reed Martininventor
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Abstract
A pair of interlocking batting gloves which may be worn by a batter during practice and during play in which each glove has a portion of hook and loop material attached to the outer peripheral edge of the index finer and a cooperating portion of hook and loop material attached to the outer peripheral edge of the little finger. When the batter grips a bat in the proper manner, the hook and loop material on the index finger of one hand releasably connects to the cooperating portion of hook and loop material on the little finger of the other hand. Thus, when wearing the gloves, the batter is prevented from rotating his hands while gripping the bat and the proper alignment of the batter's knuckles is maintained throughout the entire swing.
Claims5
A pair of batting gloves, comprising:
- (a) a left glove and a right glove, each glove having a thumb portion, a plurality of finger portions, a main hand portion, and a wrist portion adapted for respectively receiving the thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger, hand and wrist of a human being;
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- (b) said finger portion which is adapted to receive the index finger of said gloves having an outer peripheral edge proximal to said thumb portion, fastener means attached to said outer peripheral edge of at least one of the gloves and cooperating fastener means attached to said outer peripheral edge of at least the little finger portion of the other glove for releasably connecting the index finger portion of one glove to the little finger portion of the other glove when a wearer of the gloves grips a bat, said fastener means being comprised of a plurality of pieces of hook or loop material having a discontinuous configuration centered along an imaginary axis of the user's index finger and said cooperating fastener means comprises a cooperating plurality of pieces of loop and hook material having a discontinuous configuration centered along an imaginary axis of the user's little finger.
A pair of batting gloves, comprising:
- (a) a left glove and a right glove, each glove having a thumb opening, an index finger portion, a plurality of finger openings, a little finger portion, a main hand portion, and a wrist portion adapted for respectively receiving the thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger, hand and wrist of a human being;
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- (b) said finger portion which is adapted to receive the index finger of said gloves having an outer peripheral edge proximal to said thumb portion, fastener means attached to said outer peripheral edge of at least one of the glove and cooperating fastener means attached to said outer peripheral edge of the little finger of the opposed glove for releasably connecting the index finger portion of one glove to the little finger portion of the other glove when the user grips a bat, said fastener means comprising a plurality of discontinuous pieces of hook or loop material having an alignment which substantially centers said pieces along an imaginary axis of the glove's index finger portion and said cooperating fastener means comprising a cooperating plurality of pieces of loop or hook material having a discontinuous configuration centered along a imaginary axis of a wearer's little finger;
- whereby alignment of the knuckles of the left and right hands of the user is maintained along an imaginary axis throughout a batting swing.
A method of aligning the hands of a batter using gloves comprising:
- (a) providing the batter with a left hand glove and a right hand glove, each glove including means for releasably connecting the portion closest to the thumb of the index finger of the non-dominant hand of the batter to the portion furthest from the thumb of the little finger of the dominant hand of the batter;
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- (b) having the batter grasp a bat such that the knuckles of the batter's hands are in alignment when the gloves are brought together, whereby the batter's hands will be releasably retained in the correct batting position along an imaginary axis throughout a batting swing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.