Patent ID: 6543057
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A hockey glove for enclosing a human wrist and hand, the hand including a dorsal side, a palm side, four fingers and one thumb having a dorsal side, an inner side, a middle phalanx, a distal phalanx and an articulation between the middle and distal phalanxes, said hockey glove including a hand-receiving portion comprising:(a) a palm side facing the palm side of the hand; (b) a dorsal side facing the dorsal side of the band, said dorsal side of said hand-receiving portion having a padded surface; (c) finger sheaths receiving the four fingers of the band; an (d) a thumb-receiving portion receiving the thumb of the band, said thumb-receiving portion having a rigid thumb shell coveting at least in part the dorsal side of the thumb, said rigid thumb shell having first and second shell portions that partially overlap one another, said first shell portion covering at least partially the middle phalanx of the thumb, said second shell portion covering at least partially the distal phalanx of the thumb, said first shell portion being hinged to said second shell portion.