Glove

• US 4,663,783 A
• Filed: 03/28/1986
• Issued: 05/12/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Masaru Obayashi
• Original Assignee: Masaru Obayashi
• Inventors: Obayashi, Masaru
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaudon, Henry S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Graveline, Tracy G.
• Application Number:
  US06/845,307
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• Field of Search: 2/158, 2/159, 2/161 R, 2/161 A, 2/164, 2/167
• US Class Current: 2/161.1
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/01529 with thermal or fire protection

Abstract

A glove wherein installed between an outer leather wall member (11) and an inner wall member (14) or outside said outer leather wall member (11) is a molded heat insulator (12) of flexible material so formed as to be capable of covering only a back side (1) and fingertips (7).

Claims

1. In a glove comprising an outer leather wall member, an inner wall member and an overall surface covering heat insulator interposed between the outer leather wall member and the inner wall member, the improvement wherein a molded heat insulator is further interposed between said outer leather wall member and said overall surface covering heat insulator only in the back portion of the glove including the fingertip portions, and wherein said molded heat insulator is made of relatively soft foam resin material and comprises:

(a) a back covering portion and at least four finger covering portions extending from one end of said back covering portion, said back covering portion and said finger covering portions having downwardly facing open sides, respectively;

(b) said finger covering portions each comprising a finger back covering portion, a pair of opposed lateral finger side covering portions and a fingertip covering portion;

(c) said pair of finger side covering portions being thinned gradually toward the finger flat sides and defining a plurality of opposed pairs of notches at positions corresponding to the finger joints.

2. A glove as set forth in claim 1, wherein the number of said finger covering portions of said molded heat insulator is four.

3. A glove as set forth in claim 1, wherein the number of said finger covering portions of said molded heat insulator is five.

4. A glove as set forth in claim 1, wherein each finger back covering portion has folds formed in a tidal formation in substantially the entire area of each finger covering portion.

5. A glove as set forth in claim 1, wherein the outer leather wall member (11) is formed of natural or synthetic leather, the inner wall member (14) is formed of cloth, and the molded heat insulator (12) is made of foam resin.

6. A glove as set forth in claim 1, wherein each finger back covering portion (16a) has folds (20) formed in its finger joint corresponding portions for facilitating its inward bending.

7. A glove as set forth in claim 6, wherein said folds (20) are in the form of linear recesses formed in the finger back covering portions (16a).

8. A glove as set forth in claim 7, wherein said folds (20) are provided substantially throughout the finger back covering portions (16a).