Work glove
AssigneeHillerich & Bradsby Co.
InventorJames M. Kleinert
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Abstract
A work glove particularly useful for gardening, automobile mechanical work and any other type of use which brings the palmar side of the hand in contact with work or the like which may result in stinging, bruising, or blistering of the fingers, thumb and palm of a human hand is provided with protective padding disclosed or positioned for overlying at least the distal halves of the index finger and long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the index finger and the long finger. Preferably, the glove also includes protective padding disposed along a thumb stall of the glove at a location adapted to be along an ulnar border as well as the A2 pulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.
Claims12
A glove constructed to fit a hand of pre-determined size for protecting selected anatomical portions thereof, comprising:
- a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery with an opening therein to receive a human said hand, said dorsal side panel being sized to cover the back of said hand and in conjunction with said palmar side panel providing a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls for receiving a thumb and fingers of a human hand;
- said thumb stall having a palm side, a dorsal side and an ulnar border along an inside of said thumb stall toward said plurality of finger stalls;
- a thumb ulnar protective padding disposed along said thumb stall at a location adapted to be placed along an said ulnar border of said thumb proximal phalanx between a metacarpaiphalangeal metacarpalphalangeal joint and a proximal an interphalangeal joint, said metacarpalphalangeal joint being absent of padding;
- a palmar protective padding overlying a bottom portion of said palmer side panel and positioned to overlie at least the distal halves of an index finger metacarpal and a long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of said index finger and said long finger.
A glove comprising:
- a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery with an opening therein to receive a human hand, said dorsal side panel being sized to cover a back of said hand and in conjunction with said palmar side panel providing a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls for receiving a thumb and fingers of a human hand;
- a palmar protective padding overlying at least the distal halves of an index finger and a long finger metacarpal excluding the metacarpal joints of said index finger and said long finger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.