Work Glove

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 A2 pulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.

1 . A glove constructed to fit a hand of pre-determined size for protecting selected anatomical portions thereof comprising:
 a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery with an opening therein to receive said hand, said dorsal side panel being sized to cover a back of said hand and in conjunction with said palmar side panel providing a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls for receiving a thumb and fingers of said hand;   a palmar protective padding disposed along a bottom portion of said palmar side panel and positioned to overlie at least the distal halves of an index finger stall and a long finger metacarpal portion of a long finger stall excluding metacarpalphalangeal joint portions of said index finger stall and said long finger stall.   
     
     
         2 . The glove of  claim 1  further comprising a thumb A2 pulley padding disposed along said thumb stall at a location adapted to be over said thumb proximal phalanx between said metacarpalphalangeal joint and said interphalangeal joint. 
     
     
         3 . The glove of  claim 2  further comprising proximal phalanx padding over at least the proximal phalanx of said index finger between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the center axis of rotation of the proximal interphalangeal joint. 
     
     
         4 . The glove of  claim 3  further including middle phalanx padding covering at least the middle phalanx of said index finger above the proximal interphalangeal joint and below the center axis of rotation of the distal interphalangeal joint. 
     
     
         5 . The glove of  claim 1  further comprising a thumb metacarpal pad overlying the thumb metacarpal between the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the carpometacarpal joint. 
     
     
         6 . A glove, comprising:
 a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel constructed to fit a hand of pre-selected size for protecting selected anatomical portions of said hand, said palmar side panel being sized to cover palm of said hand and said dorsal side being sized to cover said dorsal side of said hand, said dorsal side panel and said palmar side panel forming a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls which receive a thumb and fingers, respectively, of said hand;   a palmar protective padding disposed within said palmar side panel and positioned to overlie at least distal halves of a long finger metacarpal and index finger, wherein said palmar protective padding excludes metacarpalphalangeal joints of said long finger and said index finger.   
     
     
         7 . A glove constructed to fit a hand of pre-selected size for protecting selected anatomical portions thereof, comprising:
 a dorsal side panel constructed to cover a back of said hand and a palmar side panel to cover a palm side of said hand, said dorsal side panel and said palmar side panel converging to form a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls, said dorsal side panel and said palmar side panel extending from near a wrist area toward said thumb stall and said plurality of finger stalls;   a palmar protective padding disposed along a bottom portion of said palmar side panel and positioned to overlie at least the distal halves of an index finger metacarpal and a long finger metacarpal excluding said metacarpalphalangeal joint portions of said long finger and said index finger.