Grip strength enhancement glove AKA "Hercules' Hand "

Abstract

The present invention relates most specifically to a hand-exercising device that, in fact, is a glove. Unlike any “field” apparatus that has come before, it is not worn as an extension to a hand or worn on the top of a hand or strapped or worn on a glove; it is the glove. This allows the flexibility of either the entire hand or any individual digit in a natural movement through a full range of motion thereby exercising the hand and digits in the most prosperous, utilitarian method for full potential of strength improvement humanly possible. This unparalleled achievement is accomplished via strategically integrated slender, pliable, flexible, non-breakable, aluminum and / or aluminum and PVC combination “spring-stays” (as in “to stiffen”) sheathed within the heavy corrugated / striated material of the “apparatus-glove”. In addition, there is a “complete glove itself” model which is, in its entirety, made of one eighth to one sixteenth inch width / depth flexible, spring-aluminum and / or PVC and / or combination alloy-metal then covered and / or integrated within a full material covering which is skin / hand compatible. A fixed and / or resting glove / hand setting results in maximum resistance to both opening and closing movements. Areas for high potential usage pertaining specifically to all sports (football, basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field, baseball, volley ball, et. al.), as well as capacities for therapeutic inclination within the medical, industrial, and business worlds are virtually without boundaries.

Description

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates most specifically to an exercising mechanism utilized by the hand and / or digits of said hand in order to increase gripping and / or holding capacity and / or strength from what was the “norm” of individual to a strata higher than that stated norm. Some of these “field” devices are separate instruments unto themselves to be utilized by the hand(s). That is to say, form made grippers (V-shaped designs) or pulley devices (such as lobes or ball or sphere designs), there are stretch and pull and spring-chain devices, pliable, soft putty-like coagulations, and individual finger-pull-and-push spring-load contraptions of varying sorts. Other, more modern designs relate to the shape of the hand itself. Examples would be, those clamped directly on a hand or over a glove of a user, with cup-like-devices fitted upon the ends of the fingers. They are held by wire or rubber band mechanisms, which provide resistance while the hand is moved i...

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Benefits of technology

[0005] The present invention relates specifically to a hand exercising device that the hand is put into; that is to say, as a glove. It is not worn directly on a hand, as in “attached to”, as an apparatus. The device is not worn over a glove of a user providing resistance, as is / are the latest of all such said “field” devices at their maximal and at their most current. This innovative presentation is the glove itself The “Hercules' Hand” fits readily onto and over the users hand(s). This allows the flexibility of either the entire hand or any individual digit in a natural movement through a full range of motion thereby exercising the hand and digits in the most successful, utilitarian method for full potential of strength improvement humanly possible. The glove itself consists of multiple pressure / muscle resistant “mostly metal, i.e., aluminum and / or PVC-like” material “stays” integrated within the fabric of said glove at strategically placed locations. Only an innovation, the innovation that is “the glove” can guarantee this full complete natural movement. In conjunction, the shape formulation with the hand itself allows for the most safe, highly effective method and condition for faster results than any other such “field” products known to man without exception. The hand-exerciser increases the strength, coordination, and gripping ability for the hand and digits of a user as well as treating a multiplicity of conditions which could / would be improved by physical therapy.

Problems solved by technology

The most common deficiency of many of the known devices is in the inability to exercise the full range of motion for each joint.

Furthermore, most of these devices provide an inappropriate and / or uneven distribution of resistance to the various joints.

However, there have been attempts to overcome this dilemma with some success, albeit comparatively crude.

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