Extra sensory glove

• US 5,983,395 A
• Filed: 02/27/1998
• Issued: 11/16/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Alan Skip Lei
• Inventors: Lei, Alan Skip
• Primary Examiner(s): Oleksa, Diana L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moran, Katherine M.
• Application Number:
  US09/032,178
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 2/159, 2/161.1, 2/161.3, 2/161.6, 2/7, 2/8, 2/164, 2/167, 2/168, 2/161.7, 2/16, 2/20, 2/163
• US Class Current: 2/159
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/0055 Plastic or rubber gloves
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/01558 using a layer of grip improving material A41D19/01552 takes precedence

Abstract

A glove including a textured surface on the inside designed to bring the texture into contact with the skin on the hand. The texture is provided over the entire interior of the glove, or just over selected areas of the glove that will provide the desired sensory contact with the hand. The texture may be a uniform pattern of raised projections, or a random placement of raised projections.

Claims

1. An improved hand cover comprising:

a textured surface formed of a uniform pattern of solid, raised projections that is positioned to contact a stimulating zone on the skin of the palm side of a hand, wherein said projections are of non-uniform height and have substantially flat tops.

2. The improved hand cover of claim 1, wherein said textured surface is positioned to contact at least one finger of a hand.

3. A glove with fingers having a textured surface formed of a uniform pattern of firm, substantially solid projections only on an interior of the finger portions wherein the textured surface is positioned to contact the fingerprint zone of a wearer.

4. The glove of claim 3, wherein the projections have substantially flat tops.

5. A method of manufacturing an extra sensory glove having an interior comprising the step of forming a textured uniform pattern of firm, substantially solid projections on selected portions of less than all the interior of a glove wherein the selected portions each are designed to contact a stimulating zone on a palm side of a wearer'"'"'s hand wherein the projections have flat tops.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the projections are of equal height.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the projections have rounded tops.

8. An improved hand cover comprising:

at least two separate textured surfaces, each formed of a uniform pattern of solid, raised projections that are positioned to contact at least two different stimulating zones on the palm side of a wearer'"'"'s hand wherein each of the separate textured surfaces is spaced from the other separate textured surfaces by areas without any projections.

9. The hand cover of claim 8 wherein at least one of the separate textured surfaces has a different uniform pattern than the other separate textured surfaces.