Patent Application
20210177074
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The disclosed subject matter is in the field of clothing and exercise accessories.
Currently available workout gloves are used to protect the portion of the palm adjacent to fingers from getting calluses and to provide grip support. Existing workout gloves get dirty quickly and may be difficult or inconvenient to clean and keep clean. After a workout, gloves are typically placed in a gym bag, thereby contaminating the contents of the gym bag with the germ exposure from the workout session. Thus, a need exists for a workout glove that prevents calluses, provides grip support, all while being resistant to contamination.
Work out with snaps and palm protection or WOSPP is an alternative workout glove design that is compact in size, fitted around one or more fingers, machine washable and dryable, and can be attached to an article of clothing, such as workout shorts, or a workout towel. The WOSPP attaches to the various articles or other items through a variety of methods, such as snaps. When that article of clothing or another item is washed, the WOSPP may also be cleaned. A portion of the WOSPP design provides palm protection against calluses in addition to grip support.
Other objectives of the disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the invention has been shown and described. The manner in which these objectives and other desirable characteristics can be obtained is explained in the following description and attached figures in which:
It is to be noted, however, that the appended figures illustrate only typical embodiments of this invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments that will be appreciated by those reasonably skilled in the relevant arts. Also, figures are not necessarily made to scale but are representative.
Before a workout session begins, the left (L) 110 and right (R) 120 WOSPPs are placed through the respective middle 113123 and ring fingers 112122 and the area labeled “Palm Protection” 115125 is positioned to cover the portion of the palms adjacent to the fingers.
Each WOSPP 110120 has a snap 111121 so that it may be attached to workout shorts 130 or a workout towel 140. Once a workout session is completed, the WOSPPs are removed from the hands and the left 111 and right 121 WOSPP's snaps are attached to the corresponding left 131 and right 132 snaps on a pair of shorts 130 or the left 141 and right 142 snaps of a workout towel 140. In some embodiments, the WOSPPs 110120 may be designed to lay flat when attached to workout shorts 130 or a workout towel 140.
The rectangular portion of the WOSPP 115125 as shown in
The primary embodiment WOSPP 110120 uses one finger per hole with a total of two holes. Other embodiments may have a different total number of holes.
In other embodiments, the WOSPP is used in settings other than a gym, including but not limited to other sports (such as golfing, bowling, hiking, or mountain biking), a household environment, a commercial environment, a medical environment, or an industrial environment. Any environment where protecting the palm from calluses and/or providing grip support applies, coupled with a convenient way to store and clean the WOSPP. For example, the WOSPP could assist with opening jars. Once the WOSPP is no longer needed, it could be attached to an apron that has the necessary snap attachment mechanism, or any article of clothing or any other items. In other embodiments, only one WOSSP may be worn on either the right or left hand. In all conceivable embodiments, the WOSPP may function as an accessory comprising: a piece of material featuring one or more finger-holes and a palm protection or grip-support region; and, at least one attachment mechanism.
Current glove systems, including workout gloves, do not include a mechanism to attach to an article of clothing or other item. In other embodiments, any currently available gloves are retrofitted to include an attachment mechanism, including but not limited to a snap, for convenience and/or hygienic purposes. In other embodiments, gloves for any application are designed and manufactured to include an attachment mechanism, including but not limited to a snap, for convenience and/or hygienic purposes. In other embodiments, in order to support current or new glove designs, existing articles of clothing or other items are retrofitted to add the attachment mechanisms, or new articles of clothing or other items are designed and manufactured to include the attachment mechanisms.
Although the method and apparatus is described above in terms of various exemplary embodiments and implementations, it should be understood that the various features, aspects and functionality described in one or more of the individual embodiments are not limited in their applicability to the particular embodiment with which they are described, but instead might be applied, alone or in various combinations, to one or more of the other embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, whether or not such embodiments are described and whether or not such features are presented as being a part of a described embodiment. Thus, the breadth and scope of the claimed invention should not be limited by any of the above-described embodiments.
Terms and phrases used in this document, and variations thereof, unless otherwise expressly stated, should be construed as open-ended as opposed to limiting. As examples of the foregoing: the term “including” should be read as meaning “including, without limitation” or the like, the term “example” is used to provide exemplary instances of the item in discussion, not an exhaustive or limiting list thereof, the terms “a” or “an” should be read as meaning “at least one,” “one or more,” or the like, and adjectives such as “conventional,” “traditional,” “normal,” “standard,” “known” and terms of similar meaning should not be construed as limiting the item described to a given time period or to an item available as of a given time, but instead should be read to encompass conventional, traditional, normal, or standard technologies that might be available or known now or at any time in the future. Likewise, where this document refers to technologies that would be apparent or known to one of ordinary skill in the art, such technologies encompass those apparent or known to the skilled artisan now or at any time in the future.
The presence of broadening words and phrases such as “one or more,” “at least,” “but not limited to” or other like phrases in some instances shall not be read to mean that the narrower case is intended or required in instances where such broadening phrases might be absent. The use of the term “assembly” does not imply that the components or functionality described or claimed as part of the module are all configured in a common package. Indeed, any or all of the various components of a module, whether control logic or other components, might be combined in a single package or separately maintained and might further be distributed across multiple locations.
Additionally, the various embodiments set forth herein are described in terms of exemplary block diagrams, flow charts and other illustrations. As will become apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art after reading this document, the illustrated embodiments and their various alternatives might be implemented without confinement to the illustrated examples. For example, block diagrams and their accompanying description should not be construed as mandating a particular architecture or configuration.
All original claims submitted with this specification are incorporated by reference in their entirety as if fully set forth herein.
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This application claims the benefit and priority of U.S. Prov. Pat. App. Ser. No. 62/948,398 (filed Dec 16, 2019).
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62948398 | Dec 2019 | US |
