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 Title: |
US5453064:
Exercise glove incorporating rods which offer resistance to movement of fingers, hands, or wrists
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Williams, Jr., Charlton H.; Marietta, GA
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| Assignee: |
Natraflex Systems, Inc., Seale, AL
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| Published / Filed: |
1995-09-26
/ 1992-07-31
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| Application Number: |
US1992000923044
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A63B 23/16;
A63B 21/02;
A63B 21/045;
A63B 23/14;
IPC-7:
A63B 23/16;
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| ECLA Code: |
A63B21/14D2; A63B23/16; K63B21/02D; K63B21/045; K63B23/14;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
482/047;
002/161.1;
482/049;
482/124;
Original:
482/047;
482/049;
482/124;
002/161.1;
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| Field of Search: |
002/160,161 A,161 R,255-258,161.1,161.6,170,161.2,161.4,161.6,162,166,255,256
482/047,49,44,48,124
128/026,878,879
602/021,22
273/188 R,189 R,189 A
473/059
D02/616,617,620
D21/198
601/040
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| Priority Number: |
| 1992-07-31 |
US1992000923044 |
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| Abstract: |
A device for exercising the fingers, hands, wrists and forearms of a user. The device incorporates flexible resilient rods made of a material such as a composite. The flexural strength of the rods creates the exercising resistance. The rods extend parallel to the hand of the user and therefore allow the user to perform other functions with his or her hands while wearing the device. The rods and the device may incorporate antimicrobials to prevent the spread or growth of microorganisms.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Apley, Richard J.; Clark, Jeanne M.
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| Designated Country: |
AU CA EP JP KR NO
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A device for exercising a hand of the user, said device comprising:
- a glove of moderately extensible material;
- at least one flexible, resilient, substantially inextensible rod formed of a composite material having a variable resistance to bending and being sized and configured to extend continuously approximately from a tip of a finger to at least the base of the hand;
- at least one substantially inextensible sleeve attached to the glove and being configured to extend continuously approximately from a tip of a finger to at least the base of the hand, said sleeve including one open end near the base of the hand for slidably accommodating said at least one rod such that the rod may adapt to and maintain the curvature of the hand upon bending of the hand;
- wherein said at least one rod is slidably disposed within said at least one sleeve and configured such that in an initial, relaxed orientation the rod biased the finger into an open, or substantially straight, position such that the resistance to bending of said at least one rod opposes bending of the at least one rod out of the relaxed initial orientation and into a bend orientation and thereby resists flexing of the muscles of the finger and causes the hand to be exercised, the flexibility allows said at least one rod to bend responsive to the flexing of the finger and the resiliency biases said at least one rod after the flexing of the finger back into said initial orientation.
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