Protective glove having an arched panel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9802105-B2
Application number	US-201514612643-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2015
Priority date	Jan 22, 2013
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

A protective sports glove including a vent opening and an arched panel extending upward and over the vent opening. The glove can include a breathable material that extends across the vent opening to provide improved air flow to and from the interior of the glove. The arched panel can arch above the vent opening, and optional breathable material, so as to form a void under the panel, thereby providing impact protection to the wearer's hand while still enabling air to circulate through the vent opening to the wearer's hand. The arched panel can be configured to flex or bend when the hand is brought back toward the wearer's wrist or forearm, yet provide resistance to that backward movement to eliminate and/or reduce the overextension of the hand and wrist.

First claim

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A protective sports glove comprising:
a hand portion including a hand palmar portion and an opposing hand dorsal portion having a longitudinal axis;
a finger portion joined with and extending from the hand portion;
a thumb portion joined with and extending from the hand portion;
a cuff portion joined with the hand portion at a junction; and
a wrist guard joined with at least one of the hand portion and the cuff portion adjacent the junction;
an opening defined by the hand dorsal portion, the opening having a width and extending laterally across the hand dorsal portion and extending longitudinally along the longitudinal axis;
a material disposed across the opening,
a panel joined with the hand dorsal portion, the panel having a first end, a second end distal from the first end, and first and second opposing sides,
wherein the first end of the panel is fixedly secured to the hand dorsal portion adjacent the finger portion with at least one of a first stitching, glue, a weld, a molded part, an elastic coupler and combinations thereof,
wherein the second end of the panel is fixedly secured to the hand dorsal portion adjacent at least one of the cuff portion and the wrist guard with at least one of a second stitching, glue, a weld, a molded part, an elastic coupler and combinations thereof,
wherein the panel is of an arch shape and is positioned over the opening and the material so as to provide an open void above the material so that air can flow,
wherein the panel is configured to flex upwardly, away from the material, when the user's hand flexes rearward toward a wrist of the user.

2. The protective sports glove of claim 1 wherein the material extends laterally beyond the first and second opposing sides of the panel and is visible when the panel is viewed from above the longitudinal axis.

3. The protective sports glove of claim 1 wherein the first end is fixedly and immovably joined with the hand dorsal portion adjacent a base of the finger portion of the glove.

4. The protective sports glove of claim 3 wherein the second end is fixedly and immovably joined to the hand dorsal portion under the wrist guard.

5. The protective sports glove of claim 1 wherein the open void between the panel and the material includes no other components located between a lower surface of the panel and an upper surface of the material.

6. The protective sports glove of claim 5 wherein the second end of the panel terminates adjacent the wrist guard.

7. A protective sports glove, comprising:
a hand portion including a hand dorsal portion having a longitudinal axis;
a cuff portion joined with and extending from the hand portion at a junction;
an opening defined in the hand dorsal portion, the opening including a first end and a second end distal from the first end along a longitudinal axis, the opening having a length and a width, the opening extending laterally across the hand dorsal portion and extending longitudinally along the longitudinal axis; and
at least one arched panel extending upwardly in an arched configuration over the opening, the panel including a first panel end fixedly secured to the hand dorsal portion adjacent the first end, and a second panel end fixedly secured to at least one of the hand dorsal portion, the cuff portion and the junction adjacent the second end,
wherein the panel extends from the first end to the second end along the entire length of the opening,
wherein the arched panel forms a visible void above the opening when the glove is viewed from a side view.

8. The protective sports glove of claim 7 comprising a material extending from the first end to the second end, the material disposed under an undersurface of the arched panel.

9. The protective sports glove of claim 8 wherein the visible void is formed between an upper surface of the material and the undersurface of the arched panel, with no other structural components located between the undersurface of the arched panel and the upper surface of the material.

10. The protective sports glove of claim 7 wherein the cuff portion is joined with the hand portion at the junction, wherein a wrist guard covers the junction, wherein the second panel end is secured to the cuff portion under the wrist guard.

11. The protective sports glove of claim 7 wherein the second panel end is secured to the hand dorsal portion with at least one of a stitching, glue, a weld, a molded part, an elastic coupler and combinations thereof.

12. The protective sports glove of claim 7 wherein the second panel is fixedly secured to the at least one of the hand dorsal portion, cuff portion and the junction adjacent the second end with an attachment device, the attachment device being at least one of a first stitching, glue, a weld, a molded part, an elastic coupler and combinations thereof, wherein the attachment device is concealed by the cuff portion.

13. The protective sports glove of claim 7 wherein the second panel is fixedly secured to at least one of the hand dorsal portion, cuff portion and the junction adjacent the second end with an attachment device, the attachment device being at least one of a first stitching, glue, a weld, a molded part, an elastic coupler and combinations thereof, wherein the attachment device is concealed by a wrist guard.

Assignees

• Warrior Sports Inc

Inventors

• Binge William G
• Kohler Dale W

Classifications

• A63B2209/10

  with adhesive type surfaces, i.e. hook and loop-type fastener · CPC title

• A63B2102/14

  Lacrosse · CPC title

• A63B71/143 Primary

  Baseball or hockey gloves · CPC title

• A63B71/141 Primary

  in the form of gloves · CPC title

• A41D19/015

  Protective gloves {(A41D19/0055 takes precedence)} · CPC title