Patent Grant
11910978
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The disclosure relates to washing mitt devices and more particularly pertains to a new washing mitt device for keeping a mitt in place while maintaining dry hands.
The prior art relates to washing mitt devices. Known devices typically have an open pocket that allows the mitt to spin on the user's hand during use. Devices with a fingered internal pocket to prevent spinning lack a waterproof barrier to keep the user's hand dry and feature a multi-faceted outer layer rather than a continuous mitt.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a mitt body having a mitt top side, a mitt bottom side, a mitt left edge, a mitt right edge, a mitt top edge, and an open mitt bottom edge defining a mitt cavity. The mitt body has an outer side configured to dry dust or wet wash a surface without creating scratches. A glove body is coupled to the mitt body within the mitt cavity. The glove body has a glove palm portion, a plurality of glove finger portions extending from the glove palm portion, a glove wrist portion coupled to the glove palm portion, and an open glove bottom side. A glove perimeter of the glove wrist portion is continuously coupled to a mitt perimeter of the open mitt bottom edge. The glove body is waterproof.
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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A glove body 32 is coupled to the mitt body 12 within the mitt cavity 26. The glove body 32 has a glove palm portion 34, a plurality of glove finger portions 36 extending from the glove palm portion 34, a glove wrist portion 38 coupled to the glove palm portion 34, and an open glove bottom side 40. The plurality of glove finger portions 36 may receive the user's hand in either direction to allow for ambidextrous use as well as to allow use of both the mitt top side 14 and the mitt bottom side 16 on the same hand. The micro fibrous outer side 30 is continuous extending around the glove body.
A glove perimeter 42 of the glove wrist portion 38 is continuously coupled to a mitt perimeter 44 of the open mitt bottom edge 24. The glove body 32 is waterproof to keep the user's hand entirely dry during washing. A wristband 46 is coupled to the mitt body 12. The wristband 46 is elasticized and coupled to the mitt perimeter 44 to compress against the user's wrist and secure the user's hand within the glove body 32 and the mitt body 12. The wristband 46 may have a micro fibrous wristband outer layer. A sleeve 48 is coupled to the wristband 46 and extends away from the glove body 32 and the mitt body 12. The sleeve 48 covers the forearm of the user. The mitt body 12 may be square shaped or elongated extending away from the wristband 46.
In use, the glove body 32 is worn on either hand to allow the user to clean with the mitt body 12 while maintaining his or her hand completely dry.
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.
I hereby claim the benefit under 35 U.S.C. Section 119(e) of U.S. Provisional application 63/116,606 filed Nov. 20, 2020.
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