Ultimate Sport Glove

Abstract

A noise maker glove includes an elastically deformable bladder that generates a noise when the bladder is compressed by a wear clapping his or her hands together. or otherwise compressing the bladder.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A noise-making glove for wearing on a human hand, the glove comprising:
 a body portion, the body portion being configured to receive the hand into the glove, the body portion comprising a palm side being configured to overlay a palm of the hand when the glove is being worn on the hand;   a bladder being attached to the palm side of the body portion, the bladder defining an interior volume of the bladder, the bladder being elastically compressible from an unstressed state to a compressed state and elastically expandable when returning from the compressed state to the unstressed state, the bladder having an interior compartment with a volume when the bladder is in the unstressed state and a reduced volume when the bladder is in the compressed state, air discharging from the bladder from the interior compartment during compression of the bladder and air entering the interior compartment during expansion of the bladder;   an orifice fluidly connected to the interior compartment, air when discharging from the bladder flowing through the orifice, the orifice being configured to generate noise while the air discharging from the bladder is flowing through the orifice.   
     
     
         2 . The glove of  claim 1  wherein the air entering the bladder flows through the orifice. 
     
     
         3 . The glove of  claim 2  comprising a valve, the valve comprising the orifice, the valve restricting the flow of air discharging from the bladder more than the flow of air entering the bladder. 
     
     
         4 . The glove of  claim 1  wherein the valve is disposed outside of the bladder. 
     
     
         5 . The glove of  claim 1  wherein the bladder is attached to a portion of the palm side of the body, said portion being formed of a non-stretchable material. 
     
     
         6 . The glove of  claim 5  wherein the non-stretchable material is leather. 
     
     
         7 . The glove of  claim 1  further comprising one or more finger portions extending from the body portion, each one or more finger portions being configured and disposed to receive a respective finger or thumb of a human hand when the glove is worn on the hand. 
     
     
         8 . The glove of  claim 1  wherein the one or more finger portions includes a little-finger finger portion, a ring-finger finger portion, a middle-finger finger portion, and an index-finger finger portion. 
     
     
         9 . The glove of  claim 1  wherein the body portion is formed as a mitten that receives the fingers of a human hand when the glove is worn on the hand. 
     
     
         10 . A glove comprising:
 a palm portion that faces a palm of a user wearing the glove;   an elastically deformable bladder attached to the palm portion, the bladder having an opening for flowing air into and out of the bladder; and   a noise-generating orifice fluidly connected with the bladder opening wherein compressing the bladder by impact flows air through the orifice and thereby generates an audible noise.   
     
     
         11 . The glove of  claim 10  wherein the orifice is located outside of the bladder. 
     
     
         12 . The glove of  claim 10  wherein the orifice forms part of a two-way valve attached to the palm portion, the two-way valve acting as a flow restriction for air being discharged from the bladder and substantially not acting as a flow restriction for air flowing into the bladder during expansion of the bladder. 
     
     
         13 . The glove of  claim 10  comprising five finger portions, the five finger portions being configured to receive separately a thumb, an index finger, a middle finger, a ring finger, and a little finger of a human hand. 
     
     
         14 . The glove of  claim 10  wherein the glove is formed as a mitten.