Patent ID: RE42729

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 a human 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; said thumb stall having a palm side, a dorsal side and an ulnar border along an inside of said thumb stall toward said plurality of finger stalls; a thumb ulnar protective padding disposed along said thumb stall at a location adapted to be placed along an said ulnar border of said thumb proximal phalanx between a metacarpaiphalangeal metacarpalphalangeal joint and a proximal an interphalangeal joint , said metacarpalphalangeal joint being absent of padding ; a palmar protective padding overlying a bottom portion of said palmer side panel and positioned to overlie at least the distal halves of an index finger metacarpal and a long finger metacarpal s excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of said index finger and said long finger.