Patent ID: 8400256

Claim:
A hand covering comprising: at least one receptacle, the receptacle having a sheath wall with an external surface and an internal surface, the internal surface delimiting a receiving volume in which one or more fingers of a user can be accommodated and the external surface and the internal surface delimiting therebetween the interior of the sheath wall; an outer strand, the outer strand having a metallic component and the outer strand being secured to the external surface of the receptacle at at least two securement locations spaced from one another in a length direction and the outer strand having at least one portion that extends into the external surface of the sheath wall of the receptacle at one entrance location on the external surface of the sheath wall, passes along a passage in the sheath wall interior, and extends outwardly of the external surface of the sheath wall at an exit location of the external surface of the sheath wall such that the at least one portion of the outer strand does not cross the interior surface of the sheath wall of the receptacle; and an inner strand, the inner strand having a metallic component and the inner strand being secured to the internal surface of the receptacle, the outer strand and the inner strand being associated with one another such that, when a finger of a user is accommodated in the at least one receptacle, an electrical conductivity path exists that includes the finger of the user, the inner strand, and the outer strand and the outer strand and the inner strand being arranged relative to one another in a selected one of the following arrangements: (a) an arrangement characterized by the absence of an interconnecting element extending through the sheath wall of the receptacle and connected to both the inner strand and the outer strand or (b) an arrangement characterized by at least one interconnecting element extending through the sheath wall of the receptacle and connected to both the inner strand and the outer strand.