Abstract: An absorbent glove tree is provided having a single piece body section with a palm portion and four fingers. The body is tapered and thicker at the base of the palm to securely hold a leather glove on the tree without the use of a clip. A removable thumb portion is provided along with a flexible mounting spring or rod so that the thumb articulates relative to the body as a glove is being fitted onto the tree. The thumb may be attached to either side of the body to accept either left or right handed gloves.

Abstract: A substantially planar hand-shaped glove drying device which includes a palm portion, a plurality of finger element which extend from the palm portion and a thumb element which is connected to the palm portion by a spring member. A display area extends from a lower portion of the device and provides an area where indicia such as the logo of a country club, golf equipment manufacturer, of the like can be displayed when the device is used as a golf bag tag. A ridge structure extends around a periphery of the device to provide structural support and to prevent a glove fitted thereon from contacting the surface of the palm structure.

Abstract: An athletic glove conditioning system comprising a hand member adapted to be fitted inside a new baseball or softball glove and a mechanical apparatus for causing a repetitive movement upon the glove while the hand member remains therein. The hand member includes a thumb piece pivotally connected to rest of the hand about a pivot axis selected to simulate the catching movement of a human hand, as when a baseball player is catching a ball with a glove. The mechanical apparatus has a pair of upwardly projecting arms provided with clamping devices for attaching to the thumb and finger portions of the glove. One of the arms is coupled to a drive mechanism to oscillate toward and away from the other arm. In use, the glove flexing apparatus causes the glove and the hand member therein to oscillate between open and closed positions, to simulate a repetitive flexing movement thereupon and thereby soften the leather along the appropriate places to permit better control by the user's hand.

Abstract: A substantially planar hand-shaped glove drying device which includes a palm portion, a plurality of finger element which extend from the palm portion and a thumb element which is connected to the palm portion by a spring member. A display area extends from a lower portion of the device and provides an area where indicia such as the logo of a country club, golf equipment manufacturer, of the like can be displayed when the device is used as a golf bag tag. A ridge structure extends around a periphery of the device to provide structural support and to prevent a glove fitted thereon from contacting the surface of the palm structure.

Abstract: A glove drying apparatus has five fingers which are angularly movable with respect to one another. A sliding mechanism is actuated to move the fingers between a relatively closed position in which the apparatus can be readily inserted into a glove. The sliding mechanism is then actuated once inside the glove to expand the fingers into a glove drying position. After the glove has been thoroughly dried, the sliding mechanism is again actuated to retract the fingers to facilitate the removal of the glove drying apparatus from a glove.

Abstract: A device is taught for drying wet gloves or mittens or for drying portions of other wet clothing having inside openings therein which are substantially circular in cross-section and which are of a depth of at least about three inches. The device is a hollow cylindrical dryer or is slightly tapered from cylindrical to slightly conically shaped. The main portion of the dryer between its ends preferably consists of a grid of many square or diamond shaped ventilation holes to facilitate evaporation of moisture. The dryer can be made of flexible plastic material and molded into its final shape (and also into such a shape that a number of said dryers can be "nested" inside each other); or the dryer can be molded in an essentially planar condition and then forced by the user into its shape described above, by slight exertion of hand pressure.

Abstract: 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.