Glove with a reinforcement strip

• US 6,557,177 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2001
• Issued: 05/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Peter Hochmuth
• Original Assignee: Peter Hochmuth
• Inventors: Hochmuth, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Welch, Gary L
• Application Number:
  US09/972,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20020073477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• Field of Search: 2 1/6, 2 2/0, 215/9, 216/0, 216/11, 216/16, 216/3, 216/4, 216/9, 602/16, 602/21, 602/22, 128/878, 128/879, 473/205, 482/44, 482/47, 482/48
• US Class Current: 2/159
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/015 Protective gloves A41D19/0055 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/01588 including rigid elements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0025 Football
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/141 in the form of gloves
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/148 Gloves for bowling and other ball games

Abstract

A reinforcement strip (11) for embedding in forefinger and/or thumb area of a glove and having each a plurality of reinforcement members (12) arranged in a row, and a respective plurality of pivot joints for connecting each two adjacent reinforcement members, wherein the two adjacent reinforcement members have respective stop surfaces facing each other and abutting one another in an extended position of the two adjacent members, and wherein each pivot joint (13) includes a bearing cavity (15) and a pivot (16) engaging in the bearing cavity.

Claims

1. A glove, comprising a palm area (1);

four forefinger areas (2);

a thumb area (3);

a wrist area(4); and

reinforcement strips (11) embedded in the forefinger and thumb areas, respectively, and having each a plurality of reinforcement members (12) arranged in a row, and a respective plurality of pivot joints for connecting each two adjacent reinforcement members, wherein the two adjacent reinforcement members have respective stop surfaces facing each other and abutting one another in an extended position of the two adjacent members, wherein each pivot joint (13) includes a bearing cavity (15) and a pivot (16) engaging in the bearing cavity; and

wherein the bearing cavity (15) is formed in one of the two adjacent reinforcement members.

2. A glove according to claim 1, wherein each reinforcement member has the bearing cavity (15) at one end thereof and the pivot (16) at another opposite end thereof.

3. A glove according to claim 2, the reinforcement members (12) are formed by an injection-molding.

4. A glove according to claim 1, wherein opposite end reinforcement members (12) of the reinforcement strip (11) include, as an integral part thereof one of the bearing cavity (15) and the pivot (16).

5. A glove according to claim 1, wherein the pivot (16) is provided in another of the two adjacent reinforcement members.

6. A reinforcement strip for a glove, comprising a plurality of reinforcement members (12) arranged in a row, and a respective plurality of pivot joints for connecting each two adjacent reinforcement members, wherein the two adjacent reinforcement members have respective stop surfaces facing each other and abutting one another in an extended position of the two adjacent members, wherein each pivot joint (13) includes a bearing cavity (15) and a pivot (16) engaging in the bearing cavity, and wherein the bearing cavity (15) is formed in one of the two adjacent reinforcement members.

7. A reinforcement strip according to claim 6, wherein the pivot is provided in another of the two adjacent reinforcement members.

8. A glove, comprising a palm area (1);

four forefinger areas (2);

a thumb area (3);

a wrist area(4); and

reinforcement strips (11) embedded in the forefinger and thumb areas, respectively, and having each a plurality of reinforcement members (12) arranged in a row, and a respective plurality of pivot joints for connecting each two adjacent reinforcement members, wherein the two adjacent reinforcement members have respective stop surfaces facing each other and abutting one another in an extended position of the two adjacent members, wherein each pivot joint (13) includes a bearing cavity (15) and a pivot (16) engaging in the bearing cavity, and wherein the bearing cavity (15) is formed in one of the two adjacent reinforcement members (2), and the pivot (16) is provided on another of the two adjacent reinforcement members, and wherein the cavity (15) and the pivot (16) are associated with respective snap locking means (24, 25) for providing a snap locking engagement of the pivot (16) in the bearing cavity (15).

9. A glove, comprising a palm area (1);

four forefinger areas (2);

a thumb area (3);

a wrist area(4); and

reinforcement strips (11) embedded in the forefinger and thumb areas, respectively, and having each a plurality of reinforcement members (12) arranged in a row, and a respective plurality of pivot joints for connecting each two adjacent reinforcement members, wherein the two adjacent reinforcement members have respective stop surfaces facing each other and abutting one another in an extended position of the two adjacent members, wherein each pivot joint (13) includes a bearing cavity (15) and a pivot (16) engaging in the bearing cavity, and wherein each pivot joint (13) forms a shoulder (17) with two coaxial pivots (16) which project laterally away from the latter, and the bearing cavity (15), which receives the two pivots and the end of the shoulder, has a cutout (18) which receives the shoulder.