Golf glove

Claim 2

In a sports glove to facilitate the gripping of a golf club for example, a glove body including interconnected palm, finger and back portions, said back portion at least being comprised of substantially inelastic and non-resilient material such as leather and having a longitudinal opening extending forwardly from the rear edge of the back portion, the improvement comprising: a one piece integrally formed stretch fastener element attached to said glove body on one side of said opening and being in and of itself elastically extensible and stretchable across said opening, and a complementary fastener element fixed on said back portion on the other side of said opening and adapted to be engaged with said stretch fastener element with the latter elastically tensioned across said opening.

Claim 3

In a sports glove as defined in claim 1, and said stretch fastener element being attached at one end thereof to said glove body near one longitudinal side of the glove body.

Claim 4

In a sports glove as defined in claim 1, and wherein said stretch fastener element and said complementary fastener element each comprises a flexible pile type element for adherence to the other fastener element.

Claim 5

In a sports glove as defined in claim 3, and one of said pile type fastener elements includes a multiplicity of hooks and the other pile type fastener element includes a multiplicity of cooperating loops to interlock with the hooks when the two elements are pressed into engagement.

Claim 6

In a sports glove as defined by claim 1 wherein substantially all of said glove body is comprised of said substantially inelastic and non-resilient material.

Claim 7

In a sports glove, a glove body including a back portion comprised of substantially inextensible material such as leather and having a longitudinal opening extending forwardly from the rear edge of the back portion, a first flexible pile type fastener element fixed on said back portion on one side of said opening, and a cooperating integrally formed elastically extensible pile type fastener element attached at one end to said back portion on the other side of said opening, said cooperating elastically extensible pile type fastener element when stretched across said opening and engaged with said first pile type fastener element covering the major part of the back of the hand of a wearer of the glove between the wrist and knuckles and maintaining the glove in snug substantially wrinkle-free relation with the hand in the region between the wrist and knuckles.

Claim 8

In a sports glove, a glove body including a back portion comprised of substantially inextensible material such as leather and having a longitudinal opening extending forwardly from the rear edge of the back portion, a first flexible pile type fastener element fixed on said back portion on one side of said opening, and a cooperating integrally formed elastically extensible pile type fastener element attached at one end to said back portion on the other side of said opening, said cooperating elastically extensible pile type fastener element when stretched across said opening and engaged with said first pile type fastener element covering the major part of the back of the hand of a wearer of the glove between the wrist and knuckles and maintaining the glove in snug substantially wrinkle-free relation with the hand in the region between the wrist and knuckles.

Claim 9

In a sports glove as defined by claim 6 wherein said inextensible material comprises leather or leather substitutes.