US1057848A

US1057848A - Boxing-glove.

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Publication number: US1057848A
Application number: US61582411A
Authority: US
Inventors: Daniel J Kennedy
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-03-21
Filing date: 1911-03-21
Publication date: 1913-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 1930-04-01

Description

D. J. KENNEDY.

BOXING GLOVE.

APPLICATION nun MAR. 21, 1911.

Patented Apr. 1,1913.

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WitrieSses 2 D. J. KENNEDY.

BOXING GLOVE.

. APPLICATION IILED MAR. 21, 1911.

1,057,848. v Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

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BOXING-GLOVE.

Specification of Letters ratent.

Application filed March 21,1911. Serial No. 615,824.

Patenjed Apr. 1, i913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. KENNEDY, a ,citizen of the United States, residing at Yonkers, in-the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Boxing Glove, of which. the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to an improvement in boxing gloves.

The primary object of said invention is to provide a boin'ng glove with a pneumatic striking surface which will form an eifectlve cushion and which will be of such construction as to withstand the impact to which the striking surface is-subjected.

- A further object is to so constructv the cushion that the same maybe readily positioned inthe ordinary type of glove without materiall altering its construction.

With the oregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter de .scribed and claimed, it being understood that changlesin the precise embodiment of.

invention erein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings,Figure 1 is a sectional view showing a glove provided with the cushion, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the cushion removed, F g. 3' is a plan view of a slightly modified form ofcus 'on, Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line H of Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 2, the cushion being deflated. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 3.

In the preferred form a glove 10 which is of the usual'construction and which would normally have the pocket 11 filled with hair or other padding, is provided'with a-cu'shion 12 illustrated in top plan in Fi 2, said cushion being arranged within t e pocket 11, the extension 12 being inserted within the thumb shield 12" of the glove.

' pocket, being stitched to the same at the.

The cushion consists of the rubber casing12 which is of such construction that the same 11, the wall 13 of said casing which is nonelastic contactin with the wall 1450f the points 1d, 14 and the wall 15 of the casing which is elastic contacting with the outer wall 17 of thepOcket. The, inner walls of the casing are connected by members 18 18' when the cushion is deflated.

versely extending substantially rectangular 1 strips, the edges of which are formed with flaps which are gummed to the casing, said strips being so formed as to bend on the line members limit the expansion'of the bag, the bag being inflated by means of a tube 19, said members '18 varying in width, the centrally disposed members being of greater" width than the end members as the casing is inflated to a greater extent at its center "than at its ends, the peculiar arrangement-of the members 18 allowing the casing when inflated to follow the curvature of the wall 14, thus assuring an even striking surface.

These 1 The members 18 as will be seen by referring to Fig. 2, not only vary in width, but the same are so positioned within the casing that when the casing is inflated, the glove assumes the same form as if the hair padding were used.

In the-use of various paddin materials such'for instance as hair, it has en found that the same becomes easily displaced and is at the same time of a disadvantage owing to its weight. It will be noted that a device of this character will be light and durable, the cushion being evenl distributed. over the striking surface of the glove, the same being of such construction as to assume the proper shape when inflated, the spacin members which connect theinner walls 0 the'casing being so arranged that the same fold as shown in Fig. 1 when pressure is applied to the glove.

In the form shown in cushion consists ofa plurality of air chambers 20 which are connected with an. air supply tube 21 andwhich are secured to a suitable piece of non-elastic material 23, the

Figs. 3 and 4, the

margin 23 of which is gummed, asimilar Q piece ofmaterial- 24 being secured to the ma tonal 23 to cover the chambers 20, this material 24., however, being elastic. In this cket formed.

tral' portions of 'said chambers being contracted and connected by the 'shortsections of the tube 27. The edge portion of each chamber is adapted to overlap the edge of an adjacent chamber at points on either side of the contracted central portion, thus assur ing an even striking surface.

The many advantages of a glove constructed in this manner will be clearly ap-' parent as the same not only forms a light and consequently easily handled glove, but, at the same time, the construction is such that when the. cushion is-deflated, the glove may be convenientl folded, the samein its folded condition tailing up but little space.

Particular attention is called to the construction of the spacing strips 18 in the preferred form and the qnianner in which the same are positioned in order to assure an even distribution, of the cushion, the many advantages of the even striking surface becushions or chamber being beveled to conform to the curvature of the pocket in the glove, and overlapped to assure an even striking surface.

It will be seen that the cushion may be easily and cheaply manufactured and the same readily positionediwithin a glove, there being but slight alteration necessary in the glove construction.

What is claimed is In an article of the class described, a glove formed with a pocket, a pneumatic cushion arranged in the pocket and formed with an elastic and a non-elastic wall, a lurality of imperforate transversely disposed strips arranged Within the cushion and terminating short of the sides thereof'and connecting the walls to divide the cushion into a plurality of sections freely movable with respect to each other, said strips constituting means for maintaining the elastic and non-elastic walls substantially straight from one side to the other of the cushion, and means for inflating the cushion. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoingas my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of'two witnesses. DANIEL J. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

VINCENT J. STABIL, W. CHANTLER AnBUoKLn