Patent ID: 7895669

Claim:
A glove constructed to fit a hand of pre-determined size for protecting selected anatomical portions thereof comprising: a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery with an opening therein to receive said hand, said dorsal side panel being sized to cover the back of said hand and in conjunction with said palmar side panel providing a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls for receiving a thumb and fingers of a human hand; a hook of the hamate relief padding attached along the palmar side panel and disposed to be positioned over at least the proximal portions of a ring finger and a small finger metacarpal between the carpometacarpal and metacarpalphalangeal joints of said ring finger and said small finger and distal to a hook of the hamate, said carpometacarpal joints of said ring finger and said small finger and said hook of the hamate being absent of padding; and, finger padding attached along the palmar side panel disposed to overlie at least the proximal phalanx and the middle phalanx of an index finger and a long finger excluding the interphalangeal joints of said index finger and said long finger.