US 11,890,526 B2
Baseball or softball batting glove
Brandon Eric Eaton, Clover, SC (US)
Assigned to STINGER BAT CO. LLC, Elmira Heights, NY (US)
Filed by STINGER BAT CO. LLC, Elmira Heights, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/531,275.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/129,092, filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0193528 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 71/14 (2006.01); A41D 19/00 (2006.01); A41D 31/14 (2019.01); A63B 102/18 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 71/143 (2013.01) [A41D 19/0006 (2013.01); A41D 31/145 (2019.02); A63B 2102/18 (2015.10); A63B 2102/182 (2015.10); A63B 2209/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A batting glove for baseball or softball comprising:
a glove base including a palmar region, a dorsal region located on an opposite exterior side of the batting glove from the palmar region, a plurality of finger regions, a wrist region at a bottom of the glove base, and an ulnar border region, the plurality of finger regions including a little finger region and a ring finger region adjacent the little finger region, and the ulnar border region located along an outermost edge region of the glove base following a length of the little finger region along an outermost side of the little finger region; and
a reinforcement layer set connected to and exterior of the glove base in a manner that covers at least a portion of each of (a) the palmar region, (b) the ulnar border region, and (c) the dorsal region,
wherein, in a state in which the batting glove is flat with the plurality of finger regions extended and in which the batting glove is viewed in two dimensions from a direction facing and perpendicular to the palmar region, the at least the portion of the palmar region includes at least part of a line segment following a length of the ring finger region to the wrist region of the glove base, and
wherein the reinforcement layer set covers (i) the at least the portion of the palmar region including the at least part of the line segment following the length of the ring finger region to the wrist region of the glove base, (ii) the at least the portion of the ulnar border region, and (iii) the at least the portion of the dorsal region.