Patents by Inventor James M. Kleinert
James M. Kleinert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6868553Abstract: A conventional baseball (softball) glove includes at least one layer of protective padding in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. Preferably, two layers of padding are used. One layer of padding is a slow release foam material and the other layer of padding is a foam rubber, neoprene, or other foamed elastomeric material. Additional protective padding may extend to the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of other joints of the index finger as well as joints of other fingers.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6851123Abstract: A baseball glove is provided with improved flexibility for the use in the catching of baseballs and the like. The improved flexibility for the baseball glove includes an expandable material which extends over the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb and longitudinally towards a web section of the glove and then transversely across the metacarpalphangeal joints of the fingers. The webbing of the glove between the thumb stall and an index finger stall of the glove is provided with a thumb side web section and an index finger web section which are connected with a hinge member which runs along and spaced from the longitudinal side of the thumb stall and the index finger stall.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6832390Abstract: A Y-shaped strap system is provided for a leg guard wherein two legs of the Y-shaped strap system are attached to one edge of a shell of the leg guard and a third leg is detachably connectable to an opposed edge of the shell of the leg guard. A V-shaped connector is provided to attach the first and second legs to the third leg.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventors: James M. Kleinert, David M. Timbeck, Dave L. T. Wilcox
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Publication number: 20040123372Abstract: A glove, includes a shock absorbing pad to overlie the back of a human hand. The shock absorbing pad is positioned to overlie the dorsal side of the hand including the metacarpals. The inner surface of the shock absorbing pad is contoured to fit the curvature of the back of the hand from the wrist area to the knuckles of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20040103465Abstract: 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 A2 pulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6701530Abstract: A batting glove includes a plurality of finger elements, a thumb element, a top portion, and a lower portion. The finger elements cover fingers, the thumb element covers a thumb, the top portion covers a back side of the hand, and the lower portion covers a palm of the hand. Preselected thicknesses of preselected materials are included in order to protect the bones, ligaments, pulleys, tendons, etc. of a wearer from direct shock, and to distribute stress along the hand. A hockey goaltender's blocker glove includes a blocker pad with a glove for receiving a human hand attached thereto, the glove including a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls wherein the thumb stall is provided with a shock absorbing pad to protect the A-2 pulley, the shock absorbing pad being positioned above the metacarpal of the thumb and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the thumb and below the center axis of rotation of the interphalangeal joint.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6668379Abstract: A conventional baseball (softball) first baseman's mitt includes two layers of protective padding in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. One layer of padding is a slow release foam material and the other layer of padding is a foam rubber, neoprene, or other foamed elastomeric material. Additional protective padding may extend to the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of other joints of the index and long fingers.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20030056273Abstract: A conventional baseball (softball) glove includes at least one layer of protective padding in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. Preferably, two layers of padding are used. One layer of padding is a slow release foam material and the other layer of padding is a foam rubber, neoprene, or other foamed elastomeric material. Additional protective padding may extend to the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of other joints of the index finger as well as joints of other fingers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6502244Abstract: A glove includes a plurality of separated elongated sections to receive a plurality of fingers and a thumb therein, said elongated finger sections being tapered toward a longitudinal axis extending between a long finger section and a ring finger section so that when the elongated finger sections are in a flexed condition, the finger sections point to an area of the wrist including the scaphoid.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6453474Abstract: A hockey catch glove includes shock absorbing pads in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. Additional shock absorbing pads may extend to areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the proximal interphalangeal joints of all of the fingers as well as the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the fingers and the bony prominences of the thumb. Even additionally, stiffeners may be sandwiched between the shock absorbing pads and a bottom panel on the palmar side of the glove.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2001Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20020108161Abstract: A conventional baseball (softball) first baseman's mitt includes two layers of protective padding in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. One layer of padding is a slow release foam material and the other layer of padding is a foam rubber, neoprene, or other foamed elastomeric material. Additional protective padding may extend to the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of other joints of the index and long fingers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2002Publication date: August 15, 2002Applicant: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: 6415444Abstract: A conventional baseball (softball) catcher's mitt includes an additional layer of protective padding in the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the index finger. Additional protective padding may extend to the areas above and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the long ring, and small fingers as well as the bony prominences of the thumb.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20020040494Abstract: A batting glove includes a plurality of finger elements, a thumb element, a top portion, and a lower portion. The finger elements cover fingers, the thumb element covers a thumb, the top portion covers a back side of the hand, and the lower portion covers a palm of the hand. Preselected thicknesses of preselected materials are included in order to protect the bones, ligaments, pulleys, tendons, etc. of a wearer from direct shock, and to distribute stress along the hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20020013961Abstract: A batting glove includes a plurality of finger elements, a thumb element, a top portion, and a lower portion. The finger elements cover fingers, the thumb element covers a thumb, the top portion covers a back side of the hand, and the lower portion covers a palm of the hand. Preselected thicknesses of preselected materials are included in order to protect the bones, ligaments, pulleys, tendons, etc. of a wearer from direct shock, and to distribute stress along the hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Publication number: 20010054190Abstract: A batting glove includes a plurality of finger elements, a thumb element, a top portion, and a lower portion. The finger elements cover fingers, the thumb element covers a thumb, the top portion covers a back side of the hand, and the lower portion covers a palm of the hand. Preselected thicknesses of preselected materials are included in order to protect the bones, ligaments, pulleys, tendons, etc. of a wearer from direct shock, and to distribute stress along the hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: D499529Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert
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Patent number: D499856Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.Inventor: James M. Kleinert