Patent Application
20200060362
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The disclosure and prior art relates to training gloves and more particularly pertains to a new training glove for improving non-dominant hand dexterity.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a glove body having a dorsal side, a ventral side, a thumb side, and a pinky side. The glove body has a wrist aperture, a finger aperture, and a hand cavity extending from the wrist aperture to the finger aperture. The glove body is configured to receive a dominant hand of a user and extend from below a wrist of the user to past a second knuckle of each finger of the user while covering a thumb of the user entirely within the hand cavity. A wrist tightening mechanism is coupled to the glove body proximal the wrist aperture to tighten and alternatively loosen the wrist aperture. A finger tightening mechanism is coupled to the glove body proximal the finger aperture to tighten and alternatively loosen the finger aperture. The glove body, the wrist tightening mechanism, and the finger tightening mechanism are configured to render the dominant hand of the user unusable.
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 wrist tightening mechanism 40 is coupled to the glove body proximal the wrist aperture 22. The wrist tightening mechanism may comprise a wrist strap 42 having a fixed end 44, a free end 46, a top side 48, and a bottom side 50. The top side has a first hook-and-loop fastener 52 adjacent the fixed end 44 and the bottom side has a second hook-and-loop fastener 54 adjacent the free end 46. The first hook-and-loop fastener is selectively engageable with the second hook-and-loop fastener and the wrist strap 42 is wrapable around the glove body 12 adjacent the wrist aperture 22. The wrist tightening mechanism 40 tightens and alternatively loosens the wrist aperture 22 and is configured to secure the glove body 12 to the wrist 30 of the user.
A finger tightening mechanism 56 is coupled to the glove body 12 proximal the finger aperture 24. The finger tightening mechanism may comprise a finger strap 58 having a second fixed end 60, a second free end 62, an up side 64, and a down side 66. The up side has a third hook-and-loop fastener 68 adjacent the second fixed end 60 and a fourth hook-and-loop fastener 70 adjacent the second free end 62. The third hook-and-loop fastener is selectively engageable with the fourth hook-and-loop fastener and the second free end 62 passes through a slot 72 in the glove body proximal the finger aperture 24 and folds back toward the second fixed end 60 to cinch the finger aperture. The finger tightening mechanism 56 thus tightens and alternatively loosens the finger aperture 24.
In use, the user places the dominant hand 28 through the wrist aperture 22 until the glove body 12 extends from below the wrist 30 to past the second knuckle of each finger and covers the thumb 32 entirely. The user then adjusts the wrist tightening mechanism 40 and the finger tightening mechanism 56 to tighten the wrist aperture 22 and the finger aperture 24. The glove body, the wrist tightening mechanism, and the finger tightening mechanism thus render the dominant hand of the user unusable. The user then plays an ambidextrous sport such as basketball but is forced to use his non-dominant hand to dribble, shoot, and play, thus improving his dexterity in his non-dominant hand.
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.
