Heated Patents (Class 223/79)
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Patent number: 8898929Abstract: An apparatus for drying gloves is provided, including a main member, at least one light source, and at least one air source. The main member includes an outer surface configured for receiving a glove, and a plurality of apertures disposed along the outer surface. The light source emits a UV-C light, and the air source blows air. The UV-C light from the light source and air from the air source can at least partially pass through the outer surface. The apertures are in communication with at least the air source.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Inventor: Michael Stewart
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Patent number: 7281645Abstract: Disclosed herein is a glove shaping device for heating and shaping the wrinkled and sewn portions of a glove. The glove shaping device includes a plurality of heating plates to be inserted into the finger portions of the glove. A body portion is provided in its interior with an electric heater and joint depressions in its top portion. A cover is attached to the heating plates and the body portion. Each of the heating plates is formed to have a rhomboid sectional shape, a predetermined thickness, two parallel side surfaces each inclined at a predetermined angle, and a joint prominence corresponding to a joint depression in a body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Inventor: Chang-Yul Cho
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Patent number: 6085436Abstract: A glove dryer attachment for a boot dryer includes a boot dryer attachment flange that is configured to mount on a boot dryer. A panel on the boot dryer attachment is provided with ribs projecting from the panel and defining air duct passages, including air inlet passages along one side of the panel and air discharge passages along the other side of the panel. The ribs and panel define open airway connections joining the air inlet passages and air discharge passages. The boot dryer attachment flange includes a baffle arranged to guide air into the intake passages and outwardly from the discharge passages.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Peet Shoe Dryer, Inc.Inventor: Blair G. Peet
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Patent number: 5267677Abstract: An athletic glove pocket-forming and shaping device has been invented which, in preferred embodiments, comprises a pocket formation bulbous member in a generally pear-shaped configuration, with a first large end for forming a pocket and a second smaller tapered end for forming a heel taper in the glove. The preferred embodiments also include a means for supplying heat from the device to a glove in which the device is placed, a conditioning fluid compartment inside the bulbous member and in fluid contact with a conditioning fluid applicator, a hinge-forming spine and a barrier ridge-forming spine on the surface of the bulbous member adjustably spaced from one another and one or more restraining straps for securing the athletic glove in a closed form around the bulbous member.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1991Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Inventor: Lawrence A. Nash
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Patent number: 4697724Abstract: A glove tree formed of a resilient material. The device includes a display stand means suitable for displaying a glove carried by the tree. The respective distal ends of the fingers and thumb of the glove tree or glove form are enlarged with respect to their respective proximal portions in order to save materials since the distal portions accomplish the spreading of the glove's fingers and thumb sections. Both the distal and proximal sections of the tree's fingers and thumb are semicircular in transverse section. Moreover, the palm portion of the form is solid but formed of the same resilient material as the fingers and thumb so that it may be squeezed as it is inserted into a glove and subsequently released to spread and fill the palm portion of a glove.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1986Date of Patent: October 6, 1987Inventor: Bruce Pitcher
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Patent number: 4472836Abstract: There is provided a method for retaining the shape of gloves e.g. leather golf gloves with one or more curved fingers by placing a glove on an electrically heated form having a shape corresponding to the curved gloves, with a sheet of paper between said form and the interior of the glove, for a sufficient time to retain the shape of the glove, especially the curvature of the fingers thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1983Date of Patent: September 25, 1984Assignee: Fuji Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tokuichi Shikatani
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Patent number: 4209913Abstract: A method and device for drying gloves, particularly golf gloves, comprises a drying member shaped to resemble a human hand. The drying member is sufficiently rigid such that the golf glove is inserted thereon and retained in an open orientation substantially conforming to the orientation in which the glove is normally worn on a human hand. However, the drying member is also semi-resilient such that the drying member may be temporarily deformed inwardly to allow the glove to be removed therefrom. In one embodiment, the drying member is hollow having a plurality of perforations therein. This allows ambient air or a drying medium, such as heated air, to be circulated from the interior of the drying member into contact with the glove for the purpose of drying the glove.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1977Date of Patent: July 1, 1980Inventors: Lloyd A. Wallin, David E. Filkins
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Patent number: 4199089Abstract: A glove blocking apparatus comprises a heated mandrel which consists of first and second separate glove receiving members. The glove receiving members can be moved between a first adjacent closed position and a second mutually separated position by power means. A glove to be blocked is mounted over the mandrel with the glove receiving members in their adjacent, closed position, and then the glove receiving members move to their separated position to stretch the glove. Stop means are provided to define the second, separate position so as to assist in determining the final size of the glove. There may be one such apparatus for stretching the palm portion of the glove in an endwise direction, and a second such apparatus provided with finger stall receiving formations, for stretching the glove and the finger stalls thereof in the face-to-face direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1978Date of Patent: April 22, 1980Assignee: Sterling Glove Co. Ltd.Inventors: Colin Filkow, Richard S. Smith