Ball glove having ball spin reduction webbing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11819753-B2
Application number	US-202117211324-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 24, 2021
Priority date	Mar 25, 2020
Publication date	Nov 21, 2023
Grant date	Nov 21, 2023

Abstract

A ball glove may include a front glove portion, a back glove portion and a webbing. A palm side of the webbing comprises a spin reduction texture. The spin reduction texture includes a first pattern of raised projections and/or recesses.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A ball glove comprising:
a back glove portion;
a front glove portion coupled to the back glove portion to define a hand cavity and to form a plurality of finger stalls and a thumb stall, the front glove portion comprising a palm sub-portion, a fingerstall sub-portion and a thumb stall sub-portion, and
a webbing coupled to, and positioned between, one of the plurality of finger stalls and the thumb stall,
wherein a palm side of the webbing comprises a first region comprising a spin reduction texture, the spin reduction texture comprising a two-dimensional array of spaced and isolated individual recesses; and
wherein the palm sub-portion comprises a second region comprising a second spin reduction texture, the second spin reduction texture comprising a second two-dimensional array of spaced and isolated second individual recesses,
wherein the palm sub-portion comprises a layer of leather material and wherein the spaced and isolated second individual recesses of the second spin reduction texture each extend into a surface of the leather material,
wherein the spaced and isolated individual recesses each have a first depth and wherein each of the second individual recesses have a second depth less than the first depth.

2. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein each of the fingerstall sub-portion, and the thumb stall sub-portion comprises a third region comprising a third spin reduction texture, the third spin reduction texture comprising a third two-dimensional array of spaced and isolated third individual recesses, each of the third individual recesses having a third depth greater than the second depth.

3. The ball glove of claim 2 further comprising lacings extending over a portion of the spaced and isolated third individual recesses with the spaced and isolated third individual recesses underlying portions of the lacings.

4. The ball glove of claim 3 , wherein the lacings connect the plurality of finger stalls.

5. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein the spaced and isolated individual recesses of the spin reduction texture each have a first shape and wherein the second spaced and isolated individual recesses of the second spin reduction texture each have a second shape different than the first shape.

6. The ball glove of claim 5 , wherein the first shape is a diamond and wherein the second shape is round.

7. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the front glove portion and the back glove portion further includes at least one marking selected from the group consisting of a trademark, a symbol, alphanumeric indicia, and combinations thereof.

8. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of finger stalls comprises first, second and third finger stalls.

9. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of finger stalls comprises first, second, third and fourth finger stalls.

10. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein the spin reduction texture uniformly extends across an entire area of the palm side of the webbing.

11. The ball glove of claim 1 , wherein a back side of the webbing comprises a third region comprising a third a two-dimensional array of spaced and isolated third individual recesses.

12. The ball glove of claim 11 further comprising lacings that extend over a portion of the spaced and isolated third individual recesses with the spaced and isolated third individual recesses underlying portions of the lacings.

13. The ball glove of claim 1 further comprising lacings extending over a portion of the spaced and isolated individual recesses with the spaced and isolated individual recesses underlying portions of the lacings.

Assignees

• Wilson Sporting Goods

Inventors

• Smith Ryan J
• Thurman Robert T

Classifications

• A63B71/143 Primary

  Baseball or hockey gloves · CPC title

• A63B2102/18

  Baseball, rounders or similar games · CPC title

• A63B2102/182

  Softball · CPC title

• A63B2209/00

  Characteristics of used materials · CPC title

• A63B43/00

  Balls with special arrangements · CPC title