Patent Application
20250151822
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The disclosure relates to gloves and more particularly pertains to a new glove for absorbing fluids, such as oil, that runs down an arm of a user during an oil-change.
The prior art relates to gloves. The prior art discloses latex gloves with textured outer surfaces to facilitate gripping and holding items. The prior art also discloses gloves with gripping projections, for example on the thumb and finger portions of the glove, again to facilitate gripping and holding items while wearing the gloves. The prior art also discloses cloth gloves, for example being designed for use in cold weather to facilitate warming the hands of the user. However, the prior art lacks disclosure of a latex glove that can be used to protect a user's body and clothing from damage by oil and other fluids when the user is performing an oil-change on a vehicle.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a glove having a top side and a bottom side. The glove is configured to receive a hand and at least part of an arm of a user. The glove includes an inner layer that is formed of a resiliently deformable rubber material and an outer layer that is formed of an absorbent cloth material. The absorbent cloth material is configured to absorb a fluid contacting the outer layer. The resiliently deformable rubber material is configured to inhibit the fluid from permeating the inner layer. The glove further includes a hand portion having a palm section that is configured to receive a palm of the hand and a plurality of finger sections that are each configured to receive a respective finger of the hand. An arm portion is coupled to and extends outwardly from the hand portion. The arm portion is configured to receive the arm of the user. The arm portion has a length that is configured to cover the arm at least up to an elbow of the user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The glove 12 further comprises a hand portion 22 having a palm section 24 that is configured to receive a palm of the hand and a plurality of finger sections 26 each of which is configured to receive a respective finger of the hand. An arm portion 28 is coupled to and extends outwardly from the hand portion 22. The arm portion 28 is configured to receive the arm of the user 50. The arm portion 28 has a length that is configured to cover at least a forearm of the user 50. In some embodiments, the length of the arm portion 28 is further extended whereby the length is configured to cover a forearm and an upper arm of the user 50. For example, the length may be between 5.0 inches and 20.0 inches.
The arm portion 28 has an opening 30 distal to the hand portion 22. The opening 30 extends into an interior area 32 that is bounded by the inner layer 18. The interior area 32 extends into the hand portion 22 whereby the interior area 32 is configured to receive the hand and the arm of the user 50 through the opening 30. Because the outer layer 20 comprises the absorbent cloth material and the inner layer 18 comprises the resiliently deformable rubber material, the fluid 52 contacting the glove 12 is absorbed by the outer layer 20 and inhibited from penetrating the inner layer 18 such that the fluid 52 does not contact the hand and the arm of the user 50.
A plurality of pads 34 is coupled to an exterior surface 36 of the outer layer 20 of the glove 12. Each pad of the plurality of pads 34 is positioned on the bottom side 16 at a respective one of the plurality of finger sections 26. The plurality of pads 34 may comprise a rubber material that is configured to increase friction between the glove 12 and an object being gripped by the hand.
In some embodiments, the resiliently deformable rubber, or latex, material is selected from the group of materials consisting of latex, natural rubber, and synthetic rubber. The resiliently deformable rubber material may stretch or expand to accommodate the hand and arm of the user 50 when the user 50 is wearing the glove 12. The absorbent cloth material may include a natural fiber, a synthetic fiber, or combinations thereof whereby the absorbent cloth material is configured to absorb the fluid 52 when the fluid 52 is contacting the outer layer 20.
In use, the user 50 may wear the glove 12 when performing maintenance or tasks that involve fluids which are known to make the clothes or skin of the user 50 dirty or stained. For example, the user 50 may wear the glove 12 while performing an oil change on a vehicle, as shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
