Shear Management Gloves

摘要

A glove provides high palm shear force and reduced finger shear force when pulling elongated articles such as a rope, a rod, and the like. A high COF material is applied to palm and a low COF material is applied to inner finger surfaces. The fingers are still used to grasp the elongated article, but the shear pulling force on the fingers is reduced and the shear pulling force on the palm is increased. In one embodiment, the underlying glove material on the palm and finger grasping surfaces is a synthetic leather material, the high COF material on the palm is a silicone rubber material deposited on the synthetic leather material and the low COF material on the inner finger surfaces is a ballistic material sewn onto the synthetic leather material, for example, an aramid fiber material sold under the trademark Kevlar®.

主权项

1. A shear management glove comprising:
a glove body comprising:
a finger portion including glove fingers;a palm portion;a wrist portion; andgrasping surfaces facing articles grasped by the glove body; a low Coefficient Of Friction (COF) material attached to the grasping surfaces of the finger portion, the low COF material configured to cover nearly all of the grasping surfaces of the finger portion making contact with an elongated article when the glove is worn while grasping the elongated article, the low COF material reducing shear forces communicated between the glove finger portion and the elongated article; and a high COF material attached to a glove palm of the glove, the high friction material having a higher COF than the low COF material.