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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
James M. Kleinert, Turners Station, KY (US);
James M. Kleinert, Turners Station, KY (US);
Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
A work glove particularly useful for gardening, automobile mechanical work and any other type of use which brings the palmar side of the hand in contact with work or the like which may result in stinging, bruising, or blistering of the fingers, thumb and palm of a human hand is provided with protective padding disclosed or positioned for overlying at least the distal halves of the index finger and long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the index finger and the long finger. Preferably, the glove also includes protective padding disposed along a thumb stall of the glove at a location adapted to be along an ulnar border as well as the Apulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.