Patent ID: 7526817

Claim:
A method of making a hand-worn article, comprising: identifying one or more first portions of the wearer's hand that release greater degrees of heat than the rest of the wearer's hand; identifying one or more second portions of the wearer's hand that release lesser degrees of heat than the rest of the wearer's hand; forming an insulating layer with multiple sections for providing multiple levels of insulation to the respective first and second hand portions; wherein the insulating layer comprises one or more first sections for covering one or more first portions of the wearer's hand and one or more second sections for covering one or more second portions of the wearer's hand, said one or more second portions being one or more joint portions wherein one or more joint portions comprise each second digit joint, and wherein the second sections have a lesser thickness and a lesser insulation than the one or more first sections, said one or more first sections comprises one or more tip covering sections for covering fingertips of a wearer's hand, a back section for covering a back portion of a wearer's hand, one or more remaining sections for covering remaining portions of a wearer's hand, a palm section for covering a palm portion of a wearer's hand and one or more side sections for covering a side portions of a wearer's hand, each said one or more first sections being formed of insulating material, wherein said one or more tip covering sections being formed of thicker insulating material than the insulating material used at said one or more remaining sections; wherein said insulating material of said back section is thicker than the insulating material of said one or more tip sections, said one or more remaining sections, said palm section and said one or more side sections; wherein flexing zones are formed on only said one or more second sections of said insulating layer, said flexing zones comprises elasticized or stretchable material, said flexing zones being disposed between and connecting two of said one or more remaining sections; and forming the hand-worn article using the above insulating layer to provide varied insulation to the wearer's hand.