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US 9,801,422 B2Granted
Medical/dental/utility glove with anti-fatigue and ergonomic improvement
OwnerPaul Ansteyinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is to an improved glove having both anatomically correlating stress relief zones and/or reinforced zones to add support in areas opposite the stress relief zones to keep bunching or slipping of the glove from interfering with the bending of the user's joints. The glove may have corrugated relief zones over some or all of the joints and knuckles of the hand, wherein the relief zones are formed of peaks and valleys. A relief zone can also be provided over the webbing between the thumb and the palm. The vertical or longitudinal relief zones provide for improved glove quality while keeping manufacturing difficulty and costs at a minimum.
Claims26
A polymeric glove having stress relief areas, comprising:
- a covering for a hand comprised of an elastic material which covers all of proximal, intermediate, and distal phalanges of the hand, and all of the metacarpals of the hand;
- said glove having a palm portion for covering the palm of a hand, a back portion for covering the back of a hand;
- finger portions for covering fingers of a hand;
- and a thumb portion for covering a thumb of a hand;
- wherein a majority of the glove covering the hand is formed by a uniform glove section that is substantially uniform thickness and is uncorrugated;
- said finger portions of said glove having finger relief zones over at least one finger joint for covering the joint between two adjacent bones in a respective digit of the hand, where said two adjacent bones bend at the joint along a first bending axis;
- each said finger relief zone formed of corrugated sections of the polymeric material and is surrounded by said uniform gloves section of the glove;
- wherein a portion of each of the two adjacent bones is covered by a uniform glove section;
- wherein said corrugated sections have elongated folds formed of peaks and valleys which are generally disposed along a second corrugation axis oblique to the first bending axis or perpendicular to the first bending axis.
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A glove having stress relief areas, comprising:
- a covering for a hand comprised of a material which covers all of the proximal, intermediate, and distal phalanges of the hand, and all of the metacarpals of the hand;
- said glove having a palm portion for covering the palm of a hand, a back portion for covering the back of a hand;
- finger portions for covering fingers of a hand;
- and a thumb portion for covering a thumb of a hand;
- wherein a majority of the glove covering the hand is formed by a uniform glove section that is substantially uniform thickness;
- said finger portions of said glove having finger relief zones over at least one finger joint for covering at least the joint between two adjacent bones in a respective digit of the hand, where said two adjacent bones bend at the joint along a first bending axis and wherein at least one portion of the relief zones of the glove has a lower resistance to flexing than the uniform glove section of the glove;
- each said finger relief zone formed of corrugated sections of the material and is surrounded by said uniform glove section of the glove;
- wherein at least a middle section along the length of each of the two adjacent bones is covered by a uniform glove section;
- wherein said corrugated sections have elongated folds formed of peaks and valleys which are generally disposed along a second corrugation axis that is not parallel to the first bending axis.
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A glove having stress relief areas, comprising:
- a covering for a hand comprised of a material which covers all of the proximal, intermediate, and distal phalanges of the hand, and all of the metacarpals of the hand;
- said glove having a palm portion for covering the palm of a hand, a back portion for covering the back of a hand;
- finger portions for covering fingers of a hand;
- and a thumb portion for covering a thumb of a hand;
- wherein a majority of the glove covering the hand is formed by a uniform glove section that is substantially uniform in thickness;
- said finger portions of said glove having finger relief zones over at least one finger or knuckle joint for covering at least the joint between two adjacent bones in a respective digit of the hand, where said two adjacent bones bend relative to each other at the joint along a first bending axis and wherein at least one portion of the relief zones of the glove has a lower resistance to flexing than the uniform glove section of the glove;
- wherein each said finger relief zone is surrounded by said uniform glove section of the glove.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.