Glove with contrasting cuff and tear indicator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10820639-B2
Application number	US-201816209169-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2018
Priority date	Apr 24, 2015
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

An ambidextrous or hand-specific glove including a wrist region, a palm region, and a digit region. The glove may be fabricated of nitrile rubber that is free of or essentially free of zinc, sulfur and accelerators to reduce allergic reactions in populations required to frequently wear protective gloves. A band region that partially or fully encircles a user's finger knuckles may be provided for easier finger bending. Texturing may be provided on glove surfaces that are used to grip articles. The fingertip regions on the front surface of the index and middle finger regions may be un-textured or smooth to enable a user to take a patient's pulse. These fingertip regions may be of reduced or smaller diameter and circumference so as to pull the glove material tightly around the tips of the user's finger and thereby applying pressure thereto so that even a faint pulse in a patient may be detected.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A glove comprising:
a wrist region;
a palm region extending outwardly from the wrist region;
a thumb region, an index finger region, a middle finger region, a ring finger region and a little finger region all extending outwardly from the palm region;
wherein the glove is fabricated with an exterior surface thereof being of a first color and an interior surface thereof being of a second color, where the first color contrasts with the second color; and wherein the first color and the second color are a tear indicator when the glove is one of cut, ripped and torn; and
a cuff provided at an end of the wrist region; wherein the cuff comprises a portion of the wrist region that is one of rolled and folded back upon itself; wherein the cuff is of the second color and a rest of the wrist region is of the first color.

2. The glove as defined in claim 1 , wherein the second color is visible on the exterior surface of the glove when the glove is one of cut, ripped and torn.

3. The glove as defined in claim 1 , further comprising:
a fingertip region and a remaining portion provided on each of the thumb region, index finger region, middle finger region, ring finger region, and little finger region, wherein the fingertip region extends from proximate a tip to proximate where a first knuckle of one of a user's thumb and respective finger will be located when the glove is worn; and wherein the remaining portion extends from a lower end of the fingertip region to the palm region; and
wherein at least one of the fingertip regions of the thumb region, the index finger region, the middle finger region, the ring finger region, and the little finger region is of a reduced circumference relative to a circumference of the associated remaining portion.

4. The glove as defined in claim 3 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions is smooth and free of texture.

5. The glove as defined in claim 4 , wherein the glove is fabricated from one of a medium acrylic nitrile, a high acrylic nitrile, neoprene, and natural rubber.

6. The glove as defined in claim 3 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions is provided with a texture.

7. The glove as defined in claim 1 , wherein the wrist region, palm region, thumb region, index finger region, middle finger region, ring finger region and the little finger region include a material that is free of or is essentially free of elements, components and compounds that cause hypersensitivity and allergic reaction in people who wear the glove.

8. The glove as defined in claim 7 , wherein the material is nitrile rubber.

9. The glove as defined in claim 8 , wherein the nitrile rubber is free of or essentially free of zinc and/or sulfur and/or accelerators.

10. The glove as defined in claim 9 , wherein the wrist region, the palm region, the thumb region, the index finger region, the middle finger region, the ring finger region and the little finger region further include an elastomeric polymer.

11. The glove as defined in claim 3 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions is of a reduced circumference relative to the associated remaining portion.

12. The glove as defined in claim 11 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions comprises only a first fingertip region selected from the fingertip regions of the thumb region, the index finger region, the middle finger region, the ring finger region and the little finger region.

13. The glove as defined in claim 11 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions comprises a first fingertip region and a second fingertip region selected from the fingertip regions of the thumb region, the index finger region, the middle finger region, the ring finger region and the little finger region.

14. The glove as defined in claim 11 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions comprises a first fingertip region, a second fingertip region, and a third fingertip region selected from the fingertip regions of the thumb region, the index finger region, the middle finger region, the ring finger region and the little finger region.

15. The glove as defined in claim 12 , wherein the first fingertip region is the fingertip region of the index finger region.

16. The glove as defined in claim 13 , wherein the first fingertip region is the fingertip region of the index finger region, and the second fingertip region is the fingertip region of the middle finger region.

17. The glove as defined in claim 14 , wherein the first fingertip region is the fingertip region of the index finger region, the second fingertip region is the fingertip region of the middle finger region, and the third fingertip region is the fingertip region of the thumb region.

18. The glove as defined in claim 3 , wherein the at least one of the fingertip regions has a bullet-tip configuration.

19. The glove as defined in claim 18 , further comprising a tapered skirt that extends between the fingertip region having the bullet-tip configuration and the associated remaining portion.

20. The glove as defined in claim 18 , wherein the fingertip region having the bullet-tip configuration is the fingertip region of the index finger region.

21. The glove as defined in claim 19 , wherein the fingertip region having the bullet-tip configuration is of a substantially constant circumference from the skirt to the tip of the associated thumb region, index finger region, middle finger region, ring finger region and little finger region.

Assignees

• Summit Glove Inc

Inventors

• Hull James L
• Pearen Christopher J
• Thatcher Ronald J

Classifications

• A41D19/0003 Primary

  with ambidextrous shape · CPC title

• A41D2400/80

  Friction or grip reinforcement · CPC title

• A41D19/0058

  Three-dimensional gloves · CPC title

• A61B42/30

  Devices for detecting perforations, leaks or tears · CPC title

• A41D19/0006

  made of several layers of material · CPC title