Protective glove having edge strip widened at specific regions
View Patent ↗In a protective glove, such as a firefighter's or welder's glove, which has a main portion, a thumb-covering portion, and four finger-covering portions and in which each portion has a front face and a back face and each face having a periphery, an edge strip joining the peripheries of the front and back faces of the of the main, thumb, and finger portions has two elongate edges, which are equidistant when the edge strip is taut, except in specific regions, where the protective glove when worn covers the wearer's knuckles and where the protective glove when worn covers the heel of the wearer's hand, at which regions the edge strip is widened to facilitate flexing without binding. Preferably, those regions where the edge strip is widened are located along a single one of the elongate edges, namely, the elongate edge joined to the peripheries of the back faces of the main, thumb, and finger portions.
1. A protective glove having a main portion, a thumb-covering portion, and four finger-covering portions, each portion having a front face and a back face and each face having a periphery, the protective glove having an edge strip joining the peripheries of the front and back faces of the main, thumb-covering, and finger-covering portions, the edge strip having two elongate edges, which are equidistant when the edge strip is taut, except at specific regions where the edge strip is widened to facilitate flexing of the protective glove without binding when the protective glove is worn, wherein those regions where the edge strip is widened are located along a single one of the elongate edges.
2. The protective glove of claim 1 wherein those regions where the edge strip is widened are located along the elongate edge joined to the peripheries of the back faces of the main, thumb, and finger portions.
3. The protective glove of claim 1 or 2 wherein those regions where the edge strip is widened include regions located where the protective glove when worn covers the wearer's knuckles.
4. The protective glove of claim 1 or 2 wherein those regions where the edge strip is widened include regions located where the protective glove when worn covers the wearer's knuckles and where the protective glove when worn covers the heel of the wearer's hand.