U.S. patent application number 13/507976 was filed with the patent office on 2014-02-13 for anti-slip sports glove.
The applicant listed for this patent is Kie-Ho Cynn. Invention is credited to Kie-Ho Cynn.
Application Number | 20140041095 13/507976 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 50065012 |
Filed Date | 2014-02-13 |
United States Patent
Application |
20140041095 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Cynn; Kie-Ho |
February 13, 2014 |
Anti-slip sports glove
Abstract
An improved anti-slip sports glove is disclosed. The improvement
lies in the direct application of a releasable contact adhesive to
the interior palm region of the sports glove that contacts the
wearer's hand.
Inventors: |
Cynn; Kie-Ho; (Kapolei,
HI) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Cynn; Kie-Ho |
Kapolei |
HI |
US |
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Family ID: |
50065012 |
Appl. No.: |
13/507976 |
Filed: |
August 9, 2012 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/161.2 ;
2/161.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 19/01558 20130101;
A63B 71/146 20130101; A63B 2209/10 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
2/161.2 ;
2/161.1 |
International
Class: |
A41D 19/00 20060101
A41D019/00 |
Claims
1. An anti-slip sports glove comprising an interior palm region,
said palm region having layer directly thereon, a releasable
adhesive, said adhesive being present in an area at least within
the palm region directly facing for contact with a wearer's hand
sufficient to prevent slippage of the wearer's hand within said
glove during usage.
2. The sports glove of claim 1, further comprising the adhesive
applied uniformly and contiguously within the palm region.
3. The sports glove of claim 1, further comprising the adhesive
applied in a pattern.
4. The sports glove of claim 3, wherein the pattern is
discontinuous.
5. The sports glove of claim 3, wherein the pattern is
continuous.
6. The sports glove of claim 3, further comprising adhesive applied
in a pattern selected from the group consisting of: stripes,
chevrons or dots.
7. The sports glove of claim 1, wherein perforations or holes are
positioned in the glove to allow circulation of air to an interior
portion of the glove such that cooling and reduced sweating of the
wearer's hand.
8. The sports glove of claim 7, wherein said holes are positioned
in the palm region of the glove.
9. An anti-slip golf glove comprising fingers and an interior palm
region, said palm region having layer directly thereon, a
releasable adhesive, said adhesive being present at least in an
area within the palm region directly facing for contact with a
wearer's hand sufficient to prevent slippage of the wearer's hand
within said glove during usage.
10. The golf glove of claim 9, further comprising the adhesive
applied uniformly and contiguously within the palm region.
11. The golf glove of claim 9, further comprising the adhesive
applied in a pattern.
12. The golf glove of claim 11, wherein the pattern is
discontinuous.
13. The golf glove of claim 11, wherein the pattern is
continuous.
14. The golf glove of claim 9, further comprising adhesive applied
in a pattern selected from the group consisting of: stripes, or
dots.
15. The golf glove of claim 9, wherein perforations or holes are
positioned in the glove to allow circulation of air to an interior
portion of the glove such that cooling and reduced sweating of the
wearer's hand.
16. The golf glove of claim 15, wherein said holes are positioned
in the palm region of the glove.
Description
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] Not applicable.
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
[0002] Not applicable.
THE NAMES OF THE PARTIES TO A JOINT RESEARCH AGREEMENT
[0003] Not applicable.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0004] 1. Field of Invention
[0005] The present invention relates to a non-slip sports
glove.
[0006] 2. Description of the Related Art Including Information
Disclosed under 37 CFR 1.97 and 37 CFR 1.98
[0007] Sports gloves are used and have become a major and indeed,
an essential accessory in a variety of sports involving gripping a
sports implement such as tennis racket, baseball bat and glove and
especially in golf. Sports gloves are used to improve the hand grip
on sports implement to increase accuracy and distance. A major
problem of sports gloves is slippage of the between the glove and
the handle of the sports implement, which leads to inaccurate
placement, strike or contact with the ball adversely affecting
accuracy and distance. Most inventive energy to improve sports
gloves has been devoted to improving the grip and reducing slippage
between the glove and the handle of the sports implement, in the
case of golf, the glove and golf club handle. Such efforts are
exemplified in patents: US 2005/0228331 (Tseng et al); U.S. Pat.
No. 6,732,377 (Wilkinson); U.S. Pat. No. 5,511,248 (Widdemer); U.S.
Pat. No. 5,164,231 (Davis); and U.S. Pat. No. 3,255,461 (Bullock).
The efforts for the most part are directed to the exterior contact
surface of the glove and the handle surface of the sports
implement. However, a major additional component of the problem of
slippage is slippage of the hand within the glove, which leads to
inaccurate placement or contact of the ball and sports implement
adversely affecting accuracy and distance. The adverse effect on
accuracy and shot distance is especially noticeable in golf.
Slippage of the hand within the glove wastes energy and creates
muscle strain because the player will more tightly grip the
implement like a golf club to compensate actual and perceived
slippage of the hand and golf club creating fatigue, lower shot
distance and loss of concentration.
[0008] In golf, the mechanics of how the golf club is held and
gripped are well known to influence the accuracy and distance
placement of the ball. Small changes have large and sometimes
catastrophic consequences in a player's game. One major problem,
which the present invention seeks to expeditiously and
inexpensively correct is slippage of the hand within the sports
glove, a problem that leads to inaccurate placement or improper
contact or strike of the implement and the ball. The problem of
slippage of the hand within the sports glove has been previously
recognized in disclosure of Widdemer. Widdemer's solution is a
costly and complicated internal layer of embossed, raised or ridged
material applied separately applied to the glove layer forming a
"sandwich" layer structure. The raised areas of the applied layer
increases or generates friction between the glove and the hand to
reduce slippage.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0009] The present invention solves the problem of internal
slippage between the glove and hand by simple and inexpensive means
through a coated or impregnated layer of releasable or pressure
sensitive contact adhesive on the interior of the sports glove.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] FIG. 1 shows the inventive glove.
[0011] FIG. 2 shows stripe pattern of pressure sensitive or
releasable adhesive.
[0012] FIG. 3 shows dot pattern of pressure sensitive or releasable
adhesive.
[0013] FIG. 4 shows chevron pattern of pressure sensitive or
releasable adhesive.
DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0014] The present inventive sports glove 1 has palm region 2 and
fingers 3. Region 2 represents an area corresponding to the
interior surface of the glove in direct contact with the palm of
the hand of the glove wearer. Unlike Widdemer, the present
inventive glove does not rely on a complicated and expensive
separate layer of special material with raised pattern to increase
friction, which is applied to the glove layer to form a multilayer
composite glove material, instead uses a simple coated on or
impregnated readily and commercially available releasable adhesive.
The adhesive can simply be applied to the finished glove or during
its assembly by very simple means such as by painting or brushing
or spraying. No specialized equipment or process steps are
required. The adhesive coverage area on region 2 is sufficient to
prevent slippage of the hand within the glove as the sports
implement like a golf club is gripped and swung. The coverage area
of adhesive may be a substantially uniform or uniform applied
adhesive coating or impregnation of within the area defined by
interior contact surface region 2 of the glove. The applied
adhesive may be in the form of a pattern as exemplified by the
adhesive stripes 5 of FIG. 2; dots 5 (or alternatively polygons)of
FIG. 3; or chevrons 6 of FIG. 4. The arrangement of the pattern or
the shape of the area of applied adhesive can be in any form that
provides sufficient anti-slip property to the glove. The stripes,
while shown in an angled diagonal orientation, can be, for example,
arranged parallel or non-parallel, horizontally, vertically or as
chevrons or herringbone. The stripes can be continuous or
non-continuous lines, like dashes. The dots can be asymmetrical,
non-circular or polygon in shape and uniformly or non-uniformly
arranged. It is noted that the adhesive can be applied into the
finger areas as long as sufficient application of adhesive prevents
slippage of the hand within the glove.
[0015] The adhesive used can be selected from well known releasable
or contact pressure sensitive releasable adhesive that will adhere
to the wearer's palm to prevent the hand slipping within the glove
during gripping and swinging the sport implement and permit removal
of the glove from the hand. It can be as simple as contact rubber
cement or the types used for adhesive bandages. Other examples can
be found in U.S. Pat. No. 5,774,889 (Gochanour) incorporated herein
by reference.
[0016] The present inventive glove may have holes or perforations 7
that communicate or extend between or through the exterior of the
glove to the interior of the glove to ventilate and allow air to
circulate or contact the wearer's hand and thereby cool and reduce
sweating of the palm of the hand of the wearer. The size or
diameter of the perforations or holes can be as small as a pin hole
and number of perforations or holes is such that it does not
interfere with the wearer's grip of the implement.
[0017] It should be understood that various changes and
modifications may be made without departing from the spirit scope
of the invention in the following claims.
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