US2571228A

US2571228A - Hand-protecting mitten

Info

Publication number: US2571228A
Application number: US85535A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sylvester E Freeman; Wayne G Stewart
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1949-04-05
Filing date: 1949-04-05
Publication date: 1951-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1968-10-16

Description

1951 s. E. FREEMAN ET AL HAND-PROTECTING MITTEN Filed April 5, 1949 INVENTOR; 5Y4 1 58 75/95 7'77EEMA/V BY Mir/v5 GSTEWART 77Z477Z0WW vman ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 16, 1951 OFFICE- HAND-PROTECTING MITTEN Sylvester E. Freeman and Wayne G. Stewart, Akron, Ohio Application April 5, 1949, Serial No. 85,535

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hand-protecting mittens, and more particularly to a protecting mitten formed of a relatively impervious, corrosiveresisting, flexible material, such as rubber, and adapted to be worn over conventional gloves or mittens, if desired.

It is among the objects of the invention to provide an improved, hand-protecting mitten especially provided for industrial workers, such as miners, metal-workers and chemical workers, such mitten having respective reinforced openings in the opposite ends thereof, one of which openings receives the wrist of the wearer, and both of which provide a ventilating air passage through the mitten to eliminate excessive sweating of the hand encased therein, rubber poisoning of the skin, and other undesirable effects of unventilated mittens formed of rubber or similar relatively impervious materials, which mitten can be easily and economically manufactured by a conventional dripping process, may be provided with a lining of any one of various materials, such as fleece, wool or canvas, if desired, is extremely durable and resistant to abrasion, corrosion and tearing, and is neat and attractive in appearance.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the following description and the appended claim in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure l is a top plan view of a mitten illustrative of the invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal cross-section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a transverse cross-section taken on the line 33 of Figure 1; and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a fragmentary end portion of the mitten opposite the wristreceiving end.

With continued reference to the drawing, the mitten comprises a hollow, thin-walled body of flexible material including a portion 10 of a shape and size to receive the wrist, palm and fingers of a hand, and a portion ll of a shape and size to receive the thumb of a hand and communicating interiorly with the interior of the portion H]. The portion l is provided with a Wristreceiving opening l2 surrounded by a reinforcing bead i3 and is provided, at its opposite end,

. with an elongated, ventilating opening I4 surrounded by a reinforcing bead [5. A neck portion is is provided adjacent the reinforcing bead l3, and a short neck portion I 1 is provided adjacent the head 15.

The mitten is preferably formed of a suitable flexible, corrosion-resistant and substantially impervious material, such as rubber or synthetic rubber, and may be made by a conventional dipping process in which a shaped form is dipped into a rubber solution to provide a coating on the form which coating is allowed to partially dry or harden, and is then measured and trimmed and rolled to desired lengths. The reinforcing beads l3 and i5 may be conveniently formed by rolling the material before it has been vulcanized and stripped from the form, these rolled beads being hardened by the vulcanizing process. After vulcanization, the mitten is stripped from the form and otherwise treated.

The mitten may be provided, if desired, with a lining of any suitable material, such as fleece, wool, or canvas, which lining may be applied in any convenient manner. For example, the lining could be applied to the dipping form before it is immersed in the rubber solution and the rubber caused to form a coating over the lining carried by the form and being firmly adhered to the lining during the vulcanizing process performed on the rubber.

The provision of the wrist opening l2 in one end of the mitten with the neck portion IE adjacent this opening loosely surrounding the wrist of the wearer, and the ventilating opening I4 in the opposite end of the mitten assures the passage of a sufficient quantity of ventilating air through.-

the mitten as the mitten walls are separated and brought together, and otherwise folded and ma nipulated by movements of the hand therein, to forestall excessive sweating of the hand encased in the mitten, and to substantially eliminate such undesirable results as rubber poisoning of the skin of the hand, serious irritation or blistering of the skin and over-heating of the hand.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiment is, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claim rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claim are, therefore, intended to be embraced therein.

What is claimed is:

A hand-protecting mitten comprising a, hollow body of substantially impervious flexible sheet material including a first portion adapted to fit about the wrist, palm and fingers of a hand and a second portion joined to and communicatin interiorly with said first portion for receiving the thumb of a hand received in said first portion,

said first portion having a wrist-receiving opening in one end and a ventilating opening in its other end, said ventilating opening having a width materially less than the width of said first portion and said first portion having reinforcing beads disposed one at each end thereof and surrounding the corresponding openings and neck portions disposed one adjacent each of said reinforcing beads, the neck portion adjacent said wrist-receiving opening being of a size to loosely i surround the wrist of a person wearing the mitten.

SYLVESTER E. FREEMAN. WAYNE G. STEWART.

4 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 228,790 Slack Mar. 30, 1886 482,647 Obear Sept. 13, 1892 1,337,879 Bean Apr. 20, 1920 1,578,127 Hynes Mar. 23, 1926 2,033,626 Garnmeter Mar. 10, 1936 2,335,871 Milligan Dec. 7, 1943