Patent ID: 7163308

Claim:
The light emitting flexible framework worn upon the hand or over a glove, comprising: A hand sized reversible flexible body for wearing upon the human hand, having an exterior surface, a wrist cuff, and four fingers, four said fingers extend from the fingertips towards termination at the wrist cuff of the flexible body, and said exterior surface is selected from the group consisting of rubber, neoprene, plastics or vinyl; and a series of removable replaceable clear translucent waterproofed tubular sheaths forming said flexible body exterior surface, comprising the four finger portions of said flexible body, the four finger portions extend the full length of the index, middle, ring, and pinkie fingers of the human hand, said finger portions extend fully onto the backhand portion of said human hand, terminating at the wrist cuff of said flexible body at a battery enclosure; and a selectively releasable hook and loop type fastening band for securing said sheaths onto the human index, middle, ring, and pinkie fingers; and a flexible fabric fingertip receptacle cap attached to the fingertip termination end of each said translucent sheath; and a watertight closure at the fingertip termination and wrist termination ends of each said translucent sheath; and a supportive, semi rigid web strap having surface mounted separator channel clips to locate and hold said individual sheaths spaced one apart from another, said web strap is selectively positioned upon the central backhand portion of said flexible body, above said wrist cuff, and below said fastening bands; and a set of releasable inline rope light illumination elements, residing within said sheaths on the flexible body; said illumination elements extend the full length of each individual sheath, said illumination elements comprise an inline array of light emitting diodes integrally assembled as a unit; and a detachable battery enclosure for containing multiple miniature batteries, and a microprocessor circuit, mounted to the wrist cuff of said flexible body, said battery enclosure is electrically connected with said rope light illuminators via flexible wiring; and a pressure-sensitive waterproof multi function micro switch attached to the thumb-side surface of the forefinger of said flexible body, to operate said illumination elements, said switch communicates with said detachable battery case via flexible wiring.