A work glove particularly useful for gardening, automobile mechanical work and any other type of use which brings the palmar side of the hand in contact with work or the like which may result in stinging, bruising, or blistering of the fingers, thumb and palm of a human hand is provided with protective padding disclosed or positioned for overlying at least the distal halves of the index finger and long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the index finger and the long finger. Preferably, the glove also includes protective padding disposed along a thumb stall of the glove at a location adapted to be along an ulnar border as well as the A2 pulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of and claims priority to and benefit from, currently U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/001,325 filed Oct. 25, 2001 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,701,530, which is a continuation-in-part of and claims priority to and benefit from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/867,084 filed May 29, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,389,601 issued on May 21, 2002, which is a continuation of and claims priority to and benefit from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/491,742 filed Jan. 27, 2000 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,253,382 issued on Jul. 3, 2001.
a palmar side panel and a dorsal side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery with an opening therein to receive a human 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;
a thumb ulnar protective padding disposed along said thumb stall at a location adapted to be placed along an ulnar border of said thumb proximal phalanx between a metacarpaiphalangeal joint and a proximal interphalangeal joint;
a palmar protective padding overlying at least the distal halves of an index finger and a long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of said index finger and said long finger.
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