Apparel – Hand or arm coverings – Mittens
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-31
2001-09-25
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Hand or arm coverings
Mittens
C002S159000, C015S227000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06292948
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a bath glove, and more particularly to a bath glove that is woven or knitted from yarns in a specific manner to have extraordinarily soft, supple and elastic to the touch and be capable of catching more and finer foams in cleansing a user's skin.
There are various types of commercially available body cleansing aids, such as bath towels, back brush, etc., for cleaning users' skins. Among these cleansing aids, there is a type of bath glove. A user may put on the bath glove when taking a bath or shower to conveniently brush and thereby clean the skin with the bath glove.
FIG. 1
illustrates a conventional bath glove and
FIG. 2
is a locally enlarged top view of the bath glove of
FIG. 1
to show a surface texture thereof. As can be clearly seen from
FIG. 2
, the conventional bath glove of
FIG. 1
is formed simply by weaving or knitting man-made fibers
1
into a pattern in which a plurality of lines of regularly arranged meshes
2
are defined. The man-made fibers
1
and the meshes
2
together form an uneven surface of the bath glove woven or knitted from the man-made fibers
1
. With this uneven surface, the bath glove is used to brush the user's skin in an attempt to clean the skin. The following are some disadvantages of the above-described conventional bath glove:
1. The uneven surface formed by the woven or knitted man-made fibers
1
and the meshes
2
gives the bath glove a very coarse texture that tends to scratch and hurt the user's skin.
2. The meshes
2
formed in the woven or knitted pattern as shown in
FIG. 2
are large in size and therefore not able to effectively catch bubbles or foams produced from body cleansing foam or soap. The user needs to constantly add more body cleansing foam or soap onto the bath glove to complete the cleansing.
3. Since the bath glove fails to effectively catch foams or bubbles produced by the body cleansing foam or soap, it has not good cleansing effect.
In view of the above disadvantages existing in the conventional bath glove, it is tried by the inventor to develop an improved bath glove having soft surface texture that would not harm the user's skin and could effectively catch more and finer foams to thoroughly clean the user's skin with reduced amount of body cleansing foam or soap.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a bath glove having a plurality of loosely overlapped terry piles formed on a surface thereof, such that the bath glove is particularly soft, supple and elastic to the touch without the risk of scratching and hurting the user's skin.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a bath glove having a plurality of loosely overlapped terry piles formed on a surface thereof, such that the bath glove is particularly effective in holding the cleansing foam or soap and catching more and finer bubbles among the terry piles for the bath glove to thoroughly clean the user's skin with reduced amount of body cleansing foam and soap.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a bath glove having a plurality of loosely overlapped terry piles formed on a surface thereof, such that the bath glove can gently massage the user's skin while cleaning the same.
To achieve the above and other objects, the bath glove of the present invention is formed by weaving or knitting yarns in a specific manner. The yarns for weaving or knitted into the bath glove are formed by twisting or stranding multiple man-made fibers into yarns. In weaving or knitting these yarns to form the bath glove, the yarns are separately hooked or otherwise pulled to form terry piles rising by different heights. Depending on the relative heights of the terry piles from a surface of the bath glove, the yarns forming these terry piles are referred to as bottom yarns, middle yarns, and top yarns. The terry piles formed from the bottom yarns are tightened at their roots to each substantially horizontally extends across and bind together the roots of two terry piles separately formed by a middle and a top yarn. The rising terry piles formed from the middle and the top yarns are different in height and loosely overlap one another and are therefore supple and elastic to the touch.
The middle yarn each is formed by sequentially twisting or tangling multiple nylon filaments together, and the top yarn each is formed by winding at least one surface filament around at least one core filament, so that the middle and the top yarns are structurally soft and supple to provide good elasticity.
The differently sized and loosely overlapped terry piles formed from the middle and the top yarns are evenly distributed over the entire surface of the bath glove to produce a plurality of small spaces among them. These small spaces effectively hold the body cleansing foam or soap and to catch a large number of fine foams or bubbles produced from the cleansing foam or soap to effect thorough cleaning of the user's skin.
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