Glove with strapping system
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Nascimento, Barry Plocher
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Abstract
A baseball or softball glove includes a strap to provide a compressive force across the fingers of a hand inserted into the glove. The compressive force facilitates the snapping the glove to catch and secure a ball. Additionally, the ring finger and the pinky finger may be inserted into the same finger stall of the glove to compensate for the weakness of the ring finger in making the snapping motion. The glove is still given the appearance of providing a separate finger stall for each finger. A guide wall is placed across the entrance to the unused finger stall to maneuver the ring finger into the pinky stall.
Claims20
A baseball or softball glove comprising:
- a palm portion;
- a thumb stall extending from the palm portion;
- a first finger stall extending from the palm portion and spaced apart from the thumb stall;
- a portion of material attached to the thumb stall and the first finger stall to form a pocket between the thumb stall and the first finger stall;
- and
- a compression strap including a first end and a second end, the first end being fixedly attached to the glove at the pocket, and the second end being removably attachable to an outer surface of a rear face of the palm portion, such that the compression strap provides a compressive force to at least one finger of a hand inserted into the glove.
A baseball or softball glove comprising:
- a palm portion;
- a first finger stall extending from the palm portion;
- the first finger stall sized and dimensioned to receive at least two fingers;
- and
- a compression strap removably attachable to an outer surface of a rear face of the palm portion to provide a compressive force to a hand inserted into the glove, the compression strap being located between the first finger stall and a wrist portion of the glove, further comprising a thumb stall extending from the palm portion;
- a second finger stall extending from the palm portion and spaced apart from the thumb stall;
- and a portion of material attached to the thumb stall and the second finger stall to form a pocket between the thumb stall and the second finger stall, and wherein the compression strap includes a first end and a second end, and the first end is fixedly attached to the glove at the pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.