Patent ID: 9622524
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A41D

Claim:
1. A protective glove comprising: a knit fabric hand shell having a cuff portion and a hand portion seamlessly knit together, wherein the cuff portion includes an elastic material configured to provide a secure fit around a wrist of a user and the hand portion includes a back side opposite a palm side configured to cover opposing sides of a hand of a user; a polymeric coating covering the palm side of the hand portion and having a thickness that gradually diminishes from the palm side to the back side of the hand portion, wherein the back side of the hand portion has an area that is free of the polymeric coating to provide ventilation to the user's hand through the knit fabric hand shell; and a plurality of perforations dispersed over the palm side of the hand portion in a plurality of circular patterns, with the majority of perforations being proximate an intermediate area of the palm side, wherein the perforations have a diameter less than 0.2 millimeters and extend though the polymeric coating to provide ventilation to the user's hand and to increase a coefficient of friction of an exterior surface of the polymeric coating.