Apparel – Hand or arm coverings – Gloves
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-05
2001-09-11
Lindsey, Rodney M. (Department: 3765)
Apparel
Hand or arm coverings
Gloves
Reexamination Certificate
active
06286148
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a glove especially adapted to the practice of particularly active sports, such as skiing, ice hockey, roller skating, etc., which involve the risk of dropping, or eves losing the glove while practicing the sport, or which require proper adaptation to the hand morphology to enable a good transmission of sensations, and adequate tightening with no risk of losing a sports article such as a ski pole, the shaft of a hockey stick, etc.
2. Description of Background and Relevant Information
To overcome the aforementioned disadvantages, it is known to provide the glove with its own tightening means such that it cannot be lost, and/or to improve its adaptation to the morphology of the hand.
Thus, strap systems are known which surround the base of the glove in the area of the user's wrist and tighten it thereon.
This presents the major drawback of blocking blood circulation, which, of course, is never recommended.
To overcome this drawback, strap tightening systems have also been proposed, which act between two fixed points, arranged on the back or side of the palm of the glove so as to act partially on the latter in a demarcated zone.
It has been shown that, although this provides a first solution to the aforementioned drawbacks, there results however a completely random, unreliable tightening, because the strap does not completely surround the hand along its entire periphery. In addition, the adaptation to the hand morphology is not optimized.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to overcome the aforementioned various drawbacks of the systems for tightening the gloves adapted especially to the practice of a sport and, to this end, relates to a sports glove having its own tightening arrangement, wherein the tightening arrangement includes a strap extending from a lower fixed point of the glove, located in the area of the wrist, freely around the glove and toward an upper fixed point located substantially perpendicular to the lower point, by describing a spiral, the upper fixed point constituting a traction hold relative to which the strap can be biased to tighten the glove around the user's hand, along a path that corresponds to one turn but does not close on itself.
The present invention also relates to the characteristics which will become apparent from the description that follows, and which must be considered separate or according to all of their possible technical combinations.
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Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Lindsey Rodney M.
Salomon S.A.
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