Warming glove

Abstract

A warming glove has a glove body including a palm side sheet, a back side sheet, and a connection member interconnecting lateral ends of the palm and back side sheets. The glove body has a wrist portion, a palm portion, a thumb portion, and finger portions. The lateral ends include lateral sides of the wrist, palm, thumb and finger portions. The connection member extends continuously and laterally from the lateral sides of the wrist portion to the lateral sides of the palm portion and from the lateral sides of the palm portion to the lateral sides of the thumb and finger portions. A heating element is disposed in the connection member. Preferably, the connection member is a fabric sleeve that receives loosely the heating element.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional warming glove;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a warming glove embodying of this invention;

FIG. 3 is another perspective view of the warming glove of FIG. 2; and

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line 4-4 of FIG. 3.

Claims

1. A warming glove comprising: a glove body including a palm side sheet, a back side sheet, and a connection member interconnecting lateral ends of said palm and back side sheets, said glove body having a wrist portion, a palm portion, a thumb portion, and finger portions, said lateral ends including lateral sides of said wrist, palm, thumb and finger portions, said connection member extending continuously and laterally from said lateral sides of said wrist portion to said lateral sides of said palm portion and from said lateral sides of said palm portion to said lateral sides of said thumb and finger portions; anda heating element disposed in and extending along said connection member.

2. The warming glove of claim 1, wherein said connection member has an elongated fabric sleeve, said heating element being disposed within said fabric sleeve.

3. The warming glove of claim 2, wherein said fabric sleeve includes two fabric strips each having two opposite longitudinal marginal ends, said marginal ends of each of said fabric strips being sewn respectively to said marginal ends of the other one of said fabric strips and being sewn respectively to said lateral ends of said palm side and back side sheets.

4. The warming glove of claim 2, wherein said heating element is disposed loosely within a space inside said fabric sleeve, and is movable relative to said fabric sleeve.

5. The warming glove of claim 2, wherein said heating element is a carbon conductor.

6. The warming glove of claim 5, wherein said carbon conductor has two opposite ends, and a plurality of carbon filaments each extending from one of said opposite ends to the other one of said opposite ends, said carbon filaments being bundled at said opposite ends and being separated from each other between said opposite ends.

7. The warming glove of claim 6, further comprising positive and negative terminals provided in said wrist portion, said opposite ends of said carbon conductor being connected to said positive and negative terminals, respectively.

8. The warming glove of claim 1, wherein said palm and back side sheets are stretchable.

9. The warming glove of claim 8, wherein said connection member is stretchable.

10. The warming glove of claim 1, further comprising positive and negative terminals disposed in said wrist portion and connected to said heating element.