Wrist Glove
A wrist glove is used to assist a user to restrict a wrist from turning, moving and bending to maintain a certain stance during sports. The wrist glove includes a glove portion, a wrist-guard portion, a first accommodating portion, a second accommodating portion, a third accommodating portion, and at least one supporting member. The glove portion includes a finger portion and a palm portion. The wrist-guard portion is connected to the other side of the palm portion opposite to the finger portion. The first accommodating portion, the second accommodating portion, and the third accommodating portion are disposed on the wrist-guard portion and a palm portion respectively. The supporting member is randomly accommodated in at least one of the first, second, and third accommodating portions selectively.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a wrist glove. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wrist glove capable of assisting a user to restrict a wrist from turning, moving and bending to maintain a stance during sport.
2. Related Art
Generally, when playing golf, the bending extent of the golfer's wrist in guiding a golf club must be properly controlled during swinging. As for common golfers, on the basis of mastering many crucial skill points, if both a correct griping stance and an address stance are correct, different turning, moving and bending changes occur once the wrist is swung when swinging of the golf club. When the club is swung up to reach the top point, the controlling of the wrist's bending extent is often neglected, and when the club is swung down to hit the ball, the bending of the wrist is still not correct, and as a result, the impact face is not correct, and thus causing the hook or slice, and the hitting distance is also affected.
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Therefore, gloves capable of assisting a user to restrict the wrist from turning, moving and bending during sports and to maintain a fixed stance during swinging have been frequently proposed. Although the bending problem of a part of the palm can be solved, the assisting effect is still quite limited. U.S. Pat. No. 6,539,551 discloses a golf glove shown in FIG 1E. A supporting strip is disposed on the back side of the glove, such that when the user wears this kind of glove 2, the supporting strip can restrict the user's palm metacarpal to prevent the palm from bending towards the hand back direction. However, in the golf glove 2, a supporting strip is only provided on the back side of the glove, which is merely capable of preventing the palm from bending towards the hand back direction when the user swings the club. However, the material of common gloves is quite soft and elastic, so it is still possible for the user's palm to bend towards the palm center side, or to over-bend towards the hand knife side and the thumb side. The supporting strip disposed in the golf glove 2 extends from a bottom arthrosis of the finger to the wrist part, which does not extend across the wrist part, so it is still possible for the wrist to bend towards direction of the hand back. Therefore, the bending and stance changes of the palm may result in deviation of the hit point when swinging to hit the ball, so as to greatly influence the hitting result. In addition, the number and kind of the supporting strip in the golf glove 2 cannot be changed, so the supporting power and strength offered by the supporting strip cannot be changed depending upon different users to satisfy the individual comfort requirement, which may result in inconvenience for the user.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn view of the above problems, the present invention is provide a wrist glove, so as to solve the problem in the conventional glove cannot effectively maintain the user at a fixed stance to result in deviations or errors when playing golf, and solve the problem that the supporting strip in the conventional glove cannot be replaced, increased, or reduced randomly selectively as desired according to the user's requirements, and capable of enhancing an effect of protecting the wrist.
In order to achieve the above objective, the present invention provides a wrist glove, applicable for wrapping a user's hand, wrist, and forepart of forearm, so as to assist the user to restrict the wrist from turning, moving and bending during sports, and to maintain a fixed stance when swinging. The wrist glove includes a glove portion, a wrist-guard portion, a first accommodating portion, a second accommodating portion, a third accommodating portion, and at least one supporting member. The glove portion has a finger portion and a palm portion, and the finger portion and the palm portion wrap a plurality of fingers and a palm of the hand respectively. The palm portion has a palm center portion corresponding to the inner side of the palm, a palm back portion corresponding to the other side of the palm, and a hand knife portion corresponding to a hand knife part of the palm. The wrist-guard portion is connected to the other side of the palm portion opposite to the finger portion, and wraps the wrist and the forepart of the forearm. The first accommodating portion is disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the palm back portion, and has at least three pockets arranged side by side, which are corresponding to a second metacarpal, a left side of the second metacarpal, and a right side of the second metacarpal of the palm respectively. The second accommodating portion is disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the palm center portion, and has one to three uniformly-arranged parallel pockets. The third accommodating portion is disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the hand knife portion. The at least one supporting member is randomly selectively disposed in the first, second, and third accommodating portions as the user wish to enhance the improvement of golfing.
The efficacy of the present invention lies in that, as for the wrist glove provided in the present invention, supporting members are disposed corresponding to the user's hand back, the palm center, and the hand knife part, so as to prevent the wrist from bending towards the direction of the hand back, the palm center, and the hand knife during sport or swinging, and to effectively maintain a certain stance of the wrist. In addition, in the glove of the present invention, three supporting members are disposed on the user's second metacarpal and on two sides of the second metacarpal, such that the palm may not over bend towards the direction of the thumb, and meanwhile, the glove of the present invention also enables the thumb to move freely. Furthermore, in the glove of the present invention, the kind and number of the supporting members can be replaced, increased, or reduced randomly selectively at any time according to the user's requirements, so as to offer the best conformable effect to the user. Therefore, the glove of the present invention makes the user unconsciously stabilize the wrist, restrict the wrist from over-turning, over-moving and over-bending, and has functions of protecting the wrist and rectifying the improper wrist bending stance. Furthermore, it can help a beginner to pick up the correct key point and stance more easily. Another objective of the present invention is that, after the user has mastered the correct habitual actions in each stance, all the supporting members can be taken out, and if no supporting members is installed therein, the wrist glove still has the function as a soft wrist-guard (because the wrist glove is usually made by, for example, fabrics of elastic material with flexible elasticity). Furthermore, the glove portion and the wrist-guard portion of the wrist glove can be separated into two parts, that is, a glove and a wrist-guard capable of being used respectively.
Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
The present invention will be further explained by the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, which thus is not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:
In order to make the object, structure, features, and functions of the present invention more comprehensible, preferred embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.
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In addition, the wrist glove 10 of the present invention can also provide various supporting members of different thicknesses, and different thickness indicates different supporting power, such that the user can select the used supporting member with a specific thickness according to personal requirements. When the sealing and fastening assemblies 33, 43, and 53 are sealed, it ensures that the supporting members 31, 41, and 51 in the glove will not drop out when the user wears the glove for sports. In the embodiment of the present invention, the supporting members 31, 41, and 51 are made of an elastic flat-sheet material. The process for replacing the supporting members is to first wear the glove and then install the supporting members. As shown in
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The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
Claims
1. A wrist glove, applicable for wrapping a user's hand, wrist, and forepart of forearm to assist the user's hand and wrist to maintain a certain stance during sports, comprising:
- a glove portion, having a finger portion and a palm portion, wherein the finger portion and the palm portion wrap a plurality of fingers of the hand and the palm of the hand respectively, and the palm portion has a palm center portion corresponding to the inner side of the palm, a palm back portion corresponding to the other side of the palm, and a hand knife portion corresponding to the hand knife part of the palm;
- a wrist-guard portion, connected to the other side of the palm portion opposite to the finger portion, for wrapping the wrist and the forepart of the forearm;
- a first accommodating portion, disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the palm back portion, and having at least three pockets arranged side by side, wherein the pockets are respectively corresponding to a second metacarpal of the palm, a left side of the second metacarpal, and a right side of the second metacarpal;
- a second accommodating portion, disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the palm center portion;
- a third accommodating portion, disposed on a surface of the wrist-guard portion and the hand knife portion; and
- at least one supporting member, selectively accommodated in at least one of the first, second, and third accommodating portions.
2. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion has a cuff end on the other end opposite to the palm portion, the pockets of the first accommodating portion extend from the cuff end to a center position on the palm back portion corresponding to the second metacarpal of the palm, and an end of the pockets facing the finger is sealed.
3. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion has a cuff end on the other end opposite to the palm portion, the second accommodating portion has at least one pocket, the pocket extends from the cuff end to a pad portion on the palm center portion corresponding to a front surface of a first metacarpal of the palm, the center edge of the palm close to the wrist, and a surface of a fifth metacarpal of the palm close to the wrist, and an end of the pockets facing the finger is sealed.
4. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion has a cuff end on the other end opposite to the palm portion, the second accommodating portion has three parallel pockets, the pockets respectively extend from the cuff end to the pad portion on the palm center portion corresponding to the front surface of the first metacarpal of the palm, the center edge of the palm close to the wrist, and a surface of a fifth metacarpal of the palm close to the wrist, and an end of the pockets facing the finger is sealed.
5. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion has a cuff end on the other end opposite to the palm portion, the third accommodating portion extends from the cuff end to a center position on the hand knife portion corresponding to the fifth metacarpal of the palm, the third accommodating portion has a pocket, and an end of the pocket facing the finger is sealed.
6. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion is an elastic material, such that the wrist-guard portion is annularly tied on the forepart of the forearm along an outer periphery of the forepart of the forearm under the normal state.
7. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wrist-guard portion has a cuff end on the other end opposite to the palm portion, the pockets of the first, second, third accommodating portions all have an opening close to the cuff end, and have a sealing and fastening assembly corresponding each opening, the sealing and fastening assembly has a hook and loop fastening tape component capable of sealing the opening, such that the supporting member is disposed therein.
8. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 3, further comprising five supporting members, wherein three of the supporting members are respectively accommodated in three pockets of the first accommodating portion, one of the remaining supporting members is accommodated in the pocket of the second accommodating portion, and the other one is accommodated in the pocket of the third accommodating portion.
9. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 4, further comprising seven supporting members, wherein three of the supporting members are respectively accommodated in three pockets of the first accommodating portion, another three of the remaining supporting members are accommodated in three pockets of the second accommodating portion respectively, and the other one is accommodated in the third accommodating portion.
10. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first accommodating portion, the second accommodating portion, and the third accommodating portion are sewed on the surface of the wrist-guard portion and the palm portion.
11. The wrist glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein a zipper exists between the glove portion and the wrist-guard portion, for connecting the glove portion to the wrist-guard portion, such that the wrist-guard portion is selectively connected to the glove portion.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 10, 2007
Publication Date: Apr 16, 2009
Inventor: Shien-Che CHENG (Taipei City)
Application Number: 11/870,055
International Classification: A63B 71/14 (20060101); A63B 69/36 (20060101);