Variable tension glove

• US 9,387,110 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Kelly Clientele Group, LLC
• Original Assignee: The Kelly Clientele Group, LLC
• Inventors: Kelly, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/198,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20140257159A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 602 20- 22, 482/44, 482/47, 482/48, 482/121, 482/124
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2005/0179 with spring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0118 for the arms, hands or fingers

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a variable tension rehabilitation glove including a glove body configured to receive a hand of a user, a wrist band surround the wrist portion, and a plurality of tension bands connecting distal portions of finger portions to a movable tension device for varying the tension of the tension bands.

Claims

1. A variable tension rehabilitation glove comprising:

a glove body comprising a palm portion, five finger portions, and a wrist portion including a wrist opening configured to receive a hand of a user, wherein the glove body includes a palmer surface and a dorsal surface;

a wrist band surrounding at least a portion of the wrist portion; and

a plurality of tension bands each including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to a distal end of the finger portions and the second end is attached to a movable tension device for varying the tension of the tension bands, wherein the movable tension device is connected to the wrist band,

wherein the glove is convertible between a first position and a second position,

wherein, when the glove is in the first position, the tension bands extend along the palmer surface of the finger portions and the movable tension device is adjacent to the palmer surface of the palm portion,

wherein, when the glove is in the second position, the tension bands extend along the dorsal surface of the finger portions and the movable tension device is adjacent to the dorsal surface of the palm portion;

wherein the first end of the tension bands includes a band opening and the distal portions of the finger portions include a hook, wherein the band opening engages with the hook.

2. The glove of claim 1, wherein the movable tension device includes a longitudinal base plate and a connector plate engaged to slide along at least a portion of the length of the longitudinal base place, wherein the second ends of the tension bands connect to the connector plate, wherein the connector plate may temporarily lock into a plurality of positions along the length of the longitudinal base place, wherein the position of the connector plate relative to the longitudinal base plate effects the tension in the tension bands.

3. The glove of claim 2, wherein, when the glove is in the first position, the longitudinal base plate is adjacent to the palmer surface of the glove body, and wherein, when the glove is in the second position, the longitudinal base plate is adjacent to the dorsal surface of the glove body.

4. The glove of claim 1, wherein the wrist band includes two operative ends configured to releasably attach to each other.

5. The glove of claim 1, wherein the wrist band includes an inner surface and an outer surface,

wherein, when the glove is in the first position, the inner surface of the wrist band is adjacent to a wrist of a user,

wherein, when the glove is in the second position, the outer surface of the wrist band is adjacent to a wrist of a user.

6. The glove of claim 1, wherein the distal portions of the finger portions include molded caps including finger tip anchorings, wherein the first end of the tension band attaches to the finger tip anchoring.

7. The glove of claim 1, wherein the movable tension device includes a spring-loaded button configured to adjust the tension in the tension bands.

8. The glove of claim 1, wherein the finger portions include a molded band guide that includes a groove to receive the tension band.

9. The glove of claim 1, wherein the movable tension device includes an adjustment knob, wherein rotation of the adjustment knob effects the tension in the tension bands.

10. The glove of claim 1, wherein the movable tension device includes a connector plate connected to a rod including a plurality of rod openings, wherein the wrist band includes a spring-loaded pin connected to a housing, wherein the housing receives at least a portion of the rod, wherein the pin is movable between the plurality of openings in the rod to alter the tension in the tension bands.

11. The glove of claim 1 further comprising a cover attached to the glove body, wherein the cover conceals the tension bands between the glove body and the cover.

12. The glove of claim 1, further comprising a cover for the glove body to conceal the tension bands;

wherein the movable tension device comprises a rigid insert positioned between the cover and an outer surface of the glove body.

13. The glove of claim 12, wherein movement of the rigid insert effects the tension in the tension bands.

14. The glove of claim 1, wherein the movable tension device comprises a plurality of connectors attached to the wrist portion, wherein each of the second end of the tension bands removably attaches to one of the plurality of connectors.

15. A variable tension rehabilitation glove comprising:

a glove body comprising a palm portion, five finger portions, and a wrist portion including a wrist opening configured to receive a hand of a user, wherein the glove body includes a palmer surface and a dorsal surface;

a wrist band surrounding at least a portion of the wrist portion; and

a plurality of tension bands each including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to a distal portion of the finger portions and the second end is attached to a movable tension device for varying the tension of the tension bands, wherein the movable tension device is connected to the wrist band; and

a cover attached to the glove body, wherein the cover conceals the tension bands between the glove body and the cover;

wherein the movable tension device includes a plurality of connectors attached to the wrist portion, wherein the second end of the tension bands removably attach to the connectors.

16. The glove of claim 15, wherein the movable tension device includes a set of at least two connectors, wherein each tension band corresponds to a set of at least two connectors, wherein the second end of the tension band is removably attached to the at least two connectors.

17. The glove of claim 16, wherein the connectors within each set are aligned proximal and distal to each other.

18. The glove of claim 16, wherein the wrist band covers at least a portion of the movable tension device.