GLOVE WITH LACING SYSTEM

Abstract

The invention relates to a size-adjustable glove (1) which has a thumb covering (4) and at least one first finger covering (5) that has a coupling element (25) in a saddle region between the thumb covering and the first finger covering, said coupling element being suitable for releasably securing the glove to a coupling device of a pole grip.

Claims

1. A glove having a thumb covering and at least a first finger covering, said glove in a saddle region between the thumb covering and the first finger covering possessing a coupling element which is configured for releasably fastening the glove to a coupling device of a pole handle, wherein the glove has a lacing systems for selectively setting a width of the worn glove.

2. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lacing system has a tensioning element and wherein the lacing system furthermore has at least one tensioning lace which is guided through at least one recess or at least one guide strap, wherein the tensioning lace by activating the tensioning element, tensions the tensioning lace in a tensioning region and the width of the worn glove is thus decreased and wherein the tensioning lace is relaxed or released in a relaxing direction counter to the tensioning direction and the width of the worn glove is thus increased.

3. The glove as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tensioning region on the glove upper side is disposed only to one side of the tensioning element, wherein the tensioning region is formed by a variable region which is disposed only to one side of the tensioning element and which is spanned by the tensioning lace.

4. The glove as claimed in claim 3, wherein the variable region is at least in part configured from a ribbed or pleated material which can be compressed, and/or wherein for selectively setting the width of the variable region two material portions on the glove upper side that in a relaxed state of the tensioning lace are mutually spaced apart by a gap can be moved toward one another in such a manner that a width of the gap between the two material portions is decreased, or the gap is eliminated by overlapping the two material portions.

5. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tensioning lace, between a first end which is fastened to the tensioning element, and a second end, in a first guide strap has at least one first deflection portion which is configured for receiving the tensioning lace.

6. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lacing system is coupled to the coupling element by way of at least one material band.

7. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is fastened to the glove by way of at least one fastening element.

8. The glove as claimed in claim 7, wherein at least one first guide strap is fastened or molded to a first reinforcement strip, wherein the first reinforcement strip is fastened or molded to the fastening element for the coupling element.

9. The glove as claimed in claim 7, wherein the reinforcement strip at least in part overlaps with the fastening element and/or with a material portion which forms the first guide strap.

10. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is configured as a movable strap, and wherein the movable strap is fastened so as to be substantially immovable on the glove, wherein the movable strap is however configured so as to be inherently flexible and movable, wherein the movable strap has a sufficient inherent stiffness such that said movable strap is stabilized in a position in the space between the thumb covering and the first finger covering such that the projecting part of the movable strap on the glove is disposed substantially in a plane which in the case of an opened and extended hand of the user is defined by the thumb and the index finger of said user.

11. The glove as claimed in claim 10, wherein the movable strap in the resting position is configured so as to be substantially semi-circular or semi-oval, and/or wherein the movable strap is a strap from a braided plastics material, and/or wherein the movable strap has a thickness of 1 mm to 5 mm.

12. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is configured as a latching tongue which is fastenable in a corresponding recess in a pole handle.

13. The glove as claimed in claim 2, wherein an external skin on the glove upper side is interrupted in the tensioning region.

14. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the glove is configured as a hand strap which is fastenable to the hand of the user and which as a thumb covering has an exit opening for the thumb, and as at least one finger covering has an exit opening for the at least one finger or for all remaining four fingers, wherein the saddle region is disposed between the first exit opening for the thumb and the second exit opening for the remaining fingers.

15. A pole handle having a coupling device, and having a hand-holding device as claimed in claim 1, said hand-holding device being releasably fastened or fastenable to the coupling device.

16. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lacing system, on a glove upper side, in a hand dorsum region between a wrist region and the first finger covering, has a tensioning element having a tensioning wheel and a tensioner housing, and a coil received in the tensioner housing, and wherein the lacing system furthermore has at least one tensioning lace which is guided through at least one recess or at least one guide strap, wherein the tensioning lace by activating the tensioning element by rotating the tensioning wheel in a tensioning direction, tensions the tensioning lace in a tensioning region and the width of the worn glove is thus decreased in the hand dorsum region, and wherein the tensioning lace is relaxed or released by rotating the tensioning wheel in a relaxing direction counter to the tensioning direction and the width of the worn glove is thus increased.

17. The glove as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tensioning region on the glove upper side is disposed only to one side of the tensioning element, wherein the tensioning region is formed by a variable region which is disposed only to one side of the tensioning element and which is spanned by the tensioning lace, wherein the tensioning lace emanating from the tensioning element spans the variable region in the direction toward the thumb covering and back to the tensioning element, wherein the variable region has a width which is able to be variably set by tensioning and relaxing the tensioning lace, wherein the spacing between the tensioning element and the coupling element is able to be variably set.

18. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tensioning lace, between a first end which is fastened to the tensioning element, and a second end which is fastened to the tensioning element, in a first guide strap has at least one first deflection portion which is configured for receiving the tensioning lace, wherein the tensioning lace has a total of at least three deflection portions, wherein each of the deflection portions is in each case guided through one guide strap.

19. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lacing system is coupled to the coupling element by way of at least one material band, in the form of at least one reinforcement strip and by way of at least one guide strap for guiding through a tensioning lace.

20. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is fastened to the glove by way of at least one fastening strip from a woven textile material, based on plastics material.

21. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is fastened to the glove by way of at least one fastening strip having a width of between 3 mm and 30 mm, wherein said fastening element is sewn to the external side of the glove or is adhesively bonded to the glove, and wherein the fastening element is disposed in a saddle region between the thumb covering and a finger covering configured as an index finger covering.

22. The glove as claimed in claim 7, wherein at least one first guide strap is fastened or molded to a first reinforcement strip, wherein the first reinforcement strip is fastened or molded to the fastening element for the coupling element, wherein the first reinforcement strip is sewn to the guide strap.

23. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is configured as a movable strap from a cable or a hoop or from a flexible plastics material lace, and in that the movable strap is fastened so as to be substantially immovable on the glove, wherein the movable strap is however configured so as to be inherently flexible and movable, wherein the movable strap has a sufficient inherent stiffness such that said movable strap is stabilized in a position in the space between the thumb covering and the first finger covering such that the projecting part of the movable strap on the glove is disposed substantially in a plane which in the case of an opened and extended hand of the user is defined by the thumb and the index finger of said user.

24. The glove as claimed in claim 10, wherein the movable strap in the resting position is configured so as to be substantially semi-circular or semi-oval, and/or wherein the movable strap is a strap from a braided plastics material, based on polyethylene, polyamide, polypropylene, aramid, or a combination of said materials, and/or wherein the movable strap has a thickness of 1 mm to 5 mm, or of 2 mm to 3 mm, wherein the movable strap projects by between 5mm and 20 mm, or between 5 mm and 10 mm, beyond a saddle region of the glove between the first finger covering and the thumb covering.

25. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling element is configured as a latching tongue which is fastenable, in a self-latching manner, in a corresponding recess in a pole handle.

26. The glove as claimed in claim 2, wherein an external skin on the glove upper side is interrupted in the tensioning region, in the longitudinal direction substantially along a longitudinal axis of the glove, such that a gap is formed, and wherein the gap is backed by an internal skin, wherein the external skin on the glove upper side at least in part is formed by two mutually spaced apart material portions, by a first cover tab which is fastened to the glove on one side, and a second cover tab which is fastened to the glove on one side, the gap being disposed in the longitudinal direction between said two mutually spaced apart material portions, and wherein the tensioning element as well as a second guide strap are fastened to the first cover tab, and at least one first guide strap for the tensioning lace is fastened to the second cover tab, wherein the first guide strap is fastened or sewn, directly to the second cover tab, and wherein the second guide strap is fastened, or sewn, directly to the second first cover tab.

27. The glove as claimed in claim 1, wherein the glove is configured as a hand strap which is fastenable to the hand of the user and which as a thumb covering has an exit opening for the thumb, and as at least one finger covering has an exit opening for the at least one finger or for all remaining four fingers, wherein the saddle region is disposed between the first exit opening for the thumb and the second exit opening for the remaining fingers, and the lacing system on the upper side of the hand strap, in a hand dorsum region between a wrist region and the second exit opening for the remaining fingers, has a tensioning element, having a tensioning wheel and a tensioner housing, and a coil received in the tensioner housing.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0054] Preferred embodiments of the invention will be described hereunder by means of the drawings which serve only for an explanatory purpose and are not to be interpreted as limiting. In the drawings:

[0055] FIG. 1 shows a perspective schematic illustration of a hand-holding device in the form of a glove for the left hand of a user, according to a first preferred exemplary embodiment, preferably for the use in Alpine skiing;

[0056] FIG. 2 shows a fragment of a lateral perspective schematic illustration of the glove of FIG. 1;

[0057] FIG. 3 shows a fragment showing a detail of the coupling region of the glove of FIG. 1 in the case of a thumb opened away from the index finger;

[0058] FIG. 4 shows a fragment showing a detail of the coupling region of the glove of FIG. 1 in the case of a thumb placed against the index finger;

[0059] FIG. 5 shows a perspective schematic illustration of a glove for the right hand of a user, according to a second preferred exemplary embodiment, preferably for the use in cross-country/Nordic sports;

[0060] FIG. 6 shows a fragment showing a detail of the coupling region of the glove of FIG. 5 with a view toward the glove internal side, or the palm of the hand, respectively, and in the case of a thumb opened away from the index finger;

[0061] FIG. 7 shows a fragment showing a detail of the lacing system of the glove of FIG. 5;

[0062] FIG. 8 shows a perspective schematic illustration of a glove for the right hand of a user, according to a third preferred exemplary embodiment, likewise preferably for the use in cross-country/Nordic sports;

[0063] FIG. 9 shows a perspective schematic illustration of a glove in the form of a hand strap according to a fourth preferred exemplary embodiment, for a right hand of a user, preferably for the use in trekking or Nordic walking, with a view toward the tensioning element; and

[0064] FIG. 10 shows a perspective schematic illustration of the glove strap of FIG. 9, with a view toward the upper side of the hand strap.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS

[0065] A first preferred exemplary embodiment of a glove 1 according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. 1. This first preferred variant is particularly suitable for the use in alpine skiing and touring. In the sport of Alpine skiing, such thicker and padded gloves are mostly used rather than in cross-country/Nordic sports where hand straps which can be worn with or without separate gloves are alternatively also used. The illustrated glove 1 is configured as a finger glove. Said finger glove has a thumb covering 4 for receiving the thumb of the left hand of the user, and a first finger covering 5 for receiving the index finger, as well as a second finger covering 6 for receiving the middle finger, a third finger covering 7 for receiving the ring finger, and a fourth finger covering 8 for receiving the little finger.

[0066] The glove 1 which is most often formed from a plurality of textile elements and layers, has padding elements and/or reinforcement elements at various locations so as to protect the hand of the user against injury on account of impact or abrasion. The glove 1 likewise preferably has insulation material so as to prevent an ingress of cold and wet.

[0067] For the purpose of setting the width of the worn glove 1, or for adapting the size of the glove to the size of the hand of the wearer, and for preventing the glove 1 from slipping on the hand of the user, the glove 1 on the glove upper side 2 thereof, or on the back of the glove that covers the hand dorsum of the user, respectively, has a lacing system. Said lacing system is preferably disposed between a wrist seam which delimits a wrist region 9 toward the bottom, and an articulation of the finger coverings 5-8. The lacing system in the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 4 has a tensioning lace 13 which by way of a first and a third guide strap 17, 19 is coupled to the material layer on the glove upper side 2, and at an opposite location on the glove upper side 2 by way of a second guide strap 18 is releasably coupled to a tensioning element 11. Between the first guide strap 17 and the third guide strap 19, the tensioning lace 13 in a zigzag style, so to speak, runs back in the direction of the tensioning element 11 again and said tensioning lace 13 in the region of the tensioning element 11 runs through the second guide strap 18 which is coupled to the tensioning element 11 or is coupled in the proximity of the latter. The tensioning lace 13 thus overlaps multiple times a variable region 31 of the glove 1 on the glove upper side 2, wherein said variable region 31 forms a tensioning region which runs substantially in the longitudinal direction, or along a longitudinal axis L of the glove 1, respectively. Said variable region 31 is configured so as to be able to be pleated, or compressed or squeezed, respectively. In the present exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the variable region 31 is configured from a ribbed or pleated material, preferably from a textile material. The tensioning element 11 has two recesses 21, 22 for passing through the tensioning lace 13, and tensioner housing 20 to which a rotatable tensioning wheel 12 for tensioning the tensioning lace 13 is fastened. The width of the variable region 31 is decreased when tensioning the tensioning lace 13 by activating the tensioning wheel 12 in a first direction S1, or in a tensioning direction S1, respectively. The spacing between the first guide strap 17 which is disposed in the region, or in the proximity, of the saddle region 23, respectively, and through which a first deflection region 14 of the tensioning lace 13 is guided, and the second guide strap 18 which is disposed in the region of the tensioning element 11 is thus also decreased, as is the spacing between the third guide strap 19 which is disposed below the first guide strap 17 and through which a third deflection. region 16 of the tensioning lace 13 is guided, and the second guide strap 18 which is disposed in the region of the tensioning element 11. On account of the tensioning lace 13 being retracted into the tensioner housing 20 of the tensioning element 11 when rotating the tensioning wheel 12 in the tensioning direction S1, the total length of the portion of the tensioning lace 13 protruding from the tensioner housing 20 on the glove surface 2 is thus decreased. This causes a constriction of the fit, or of the width, of the worn glove 1 on the hand of the user.

[0068] When the tensioning wheel 12 is rotated in a second direction S2, counter to the tensioning direction S1, that is to say rotated in a relaxing direction S2, the tensioning lace 13 is thus again released from the tensioner housing 20 and the total length of the portion of the tensioning lace 13 protruding from the tensioner housing 20 on the glove surface 2 is increased. On account thereof, the width of the variable region 31 is increased again, as is the spacing between the second guide strap 18 which is disposed in the region, or in the proximity, of the saddle region 23, respectively, and through which a second deflection region 15 of the tensioning lace 13 is guided, and the second guide strap 18 which is disposed in the region of the tensioning element 11, as also between the third guide strap 19 which is disposed below the first guide strap 17 and through which a third deflection region 16 of the tensioning lace 13 is guided, and the second guide strap 18 which is disposed in the region of the tensioning element 11. This causes an increase in terms of the fit, or the width, respectively, of the worn glove 1 on the hand of the user.

[0069] As is illustrated in FIG. 2, a saddle region 23 to which a coupling element in the form of a movable strap 25 is fastened is configured between the thumb covering 4 and the first finger covering 5. Said movable strap 25 serves for coupling the glove 1 to a ski pole (not illustrated). To this end, the ski pole in the present exemplary embodiment on the pole handle has a pin or a hook, the movable strap 25 being pushed over said pin or said hook in a preferably self-latching manner. In order for the pole and the glove 1 to be uncoupled, a trigger element on the pole handle is preferably activated on account of which the movable strap 25 is released again.

[0070] In the present exemplary embodiment, the movable strap 25 is fastened to the material of the glove 1, or anchored therein, respectively, in the saddle region 23. A fastening element 24, or a fastening strip, respectively, is sewn on by way of the fastening location of the strap 25, said fastening element 24, or said fastening strip, respectively, having two recesses for passing through the cord forming the strap 25. The fastening element 24 in the exemplary embodiment illustrated is configured as an oval patch, as can be seen in FIG. 3.

[0071] In the present exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the movable strap 25 is configured from a flexible material such as, for example, a textile cord, however has a sufficient inherent stiffness such that the strap 25 in the uncoupled state projects from the glove 1, substantially in a manner perpendicular to the glove surface in the saddle region 23. The portion of the movable strap 25 that projects from the glove 1 in the uncoupled state herein is shaped so as to be semi-circular or semi-oval, respectively. The movable strap in terms of the fastening position thereof is thus fastened so as to be substantially immovable on the glove but so as to be inherently flexible and movable. The strap by virtue of the inherent stiffness thereof is stabilized in a position in the space between the thumb covering 4 and a first finger covering 5, wherein the projecting part of the movable strap 25 on the glove 1 is disposed so as to be substantially in a plane which in the case of an opened and extended hand of the user is defined by the thumb and the index finger of said user.

[0072] A first reinforcement strip 26 is guided from the saddle region 23 toward the glove upper side 2, or toward the hand dorsum, respectively. The first reinforcement strip 26 has two ends, of which a first end is fastened, or sewn or molded, respectively, to the fastening element 24 for the strap 25, and a second end is fastened, or sewn or molded, respectively, to a first guide strap 17 through which a tensioning lace 13 of the lacing system is guided.

[0073] When the tensioning lace 13 is now tensioned, the first reinforcement strip 26 by way of the first guide strap 17 is imparted a tension, or a first force, respectively, in the direction of the tensioning element 11. However, when the movable strap 25 is coupled to a pole handle, a second force in the opposite direction engages on the movable strap 25 and thus, by way of the fastening element 24, also on the first reinforcement strip 26. The lacing system, or the tensioning system, respectively, thus acts indirectly as a force counter to the tensile force which, in the case of a coupling to a pole handle, pulls on the movable strap 25.

[0074] On account thereof, the transmission of force from the arm, or the hand, respectively, to the pole handle and thus to the pole by way of the glove 1 is optimized, in particular when supported on the pole. The first reinforcement strip 26 in the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4 is configured from a high-tensile material, that is to say from a material which is substantially non-elongatable or a material of very low elongation, and in the present exemplary embodiment is also reinforced by stitches. The first reinforcement strip 26 here is not fastened to the external skin, or to the upper material of the glove 1, respectively, and thus covers the external skin only loosely. On account thereof, a certain flexibility can be guaranteed when moving the hand of the user on and around the pole handle.

[0075] In the present exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the second guide strap 18 is fastened or integrally molded to a third reinforcement strip 32. Said third reinforcement strip 32 here is fastened to the glove upper side 2 on one side, and optionally additionally to the tensioning element 11, preferably on the lower side of the tensioner housing 20. As is illustrated in FIG. 1, the third reinforcement strip 32 is jammed and fastened between the external skin, or the upper material of the glove 1, respectively on the glove upper side 2 and on the lower side of the tensioner housing 20. The tensioning lace 13 thus leads out of an upper first recess 21 of the tensioning element 11, or from the tensioner housing 20 thereof, respectively, so to speak, spans the variable region 31, and by way of the first deflection portion 14 is guided through a first guide strap 17. The tensioning lace 13 then leads back to a second guide strap 18 which by way of the third reinforcement band 32 is coupled indirectly to the tensioning element 11, said tensioning lace 13 by way of the second deflection portion 15 thereof there being imparted a deflection through the second guide strap 18, and in turn in a substantially opposite direction spanning the variable region 31 toward a third guide strap 19 which is disposed below the first guide strap 17 and through which the third deflection region 16 of the tensioning lace 13 is guided. The tensioning lace 13 is subsequently guided back to the tensioning element 11, or is guided into the tensioner housing 20 through a second recess 22, respectively.

[0076] The tensioning region, or the variable region 31, respectively, can also be designed such that the upper material, or the external skin of the glove, respectively, is interrupted across the length of the tensioning region, wherein the front edges of the interrupted external skin which in this region lie opposite one another so as to be mutually exposed enclose therebetween an elongate face which is configured as an internal skin. This is the case, so to speak, in the second and the third preferred exemplary embodiment as is illustrated in FIG. 5 to 7, or 8, respectively. In those glove variants which are preferably used in cross-country/Nordic sports, the glove material is preferably thinner and more intensely ventilated as well as less padded. Independently thereof, as can be seen in FIG. 5 or 8, respectively, the glove according to the second preferred exemplary embodiment on the glove upper side 2 in the tensioning region has a first cover tab 28 to which the tensioning element 11 is fastened, and a second cover tab 29 to which the first guide strap 17 and the third guide strap 19 are fastened. An intermediate space 30, or a gap 30, respectively, which extends substantially along the longitudinal axis L of the glove 1 is thus disposed between the first cover tab 28 and the second cover tab 29. The two cover tabs 28, 29 can thus be considered as a longitudinally split external skin, and the material underpinning the intermediate space 30, or the gap, respectively, can be considered as an internal skin which optionally at least in part at the same time also serves as the upper material for the thumb covering 4 and the finger coverings 5-8, as well as optionally forms the internal side of the glove that covers the palm of the user's hand. The internal skin can likewise also form the entire face on the upper side 2 of the glove, said face in this instance being at least in part covered by the external skin, or by the two cover tabs 28, 29.

[0077] When tensioning the lacing system, or the tensioning system, respectively, the mutually opposite, or mutually facing two edges 34, 35, respectively, of the two cover tabs 28, 29 that define the intermediate space are moved toward one another. On account thereof, the intermediate space 30 is closed, and depending on the degree of tension the two cover tabs 28, 29 may even partially overlap in the region of the mutually facing edges 34, 35 of said cover tabs 28, 29.

[0078] In the exemplary embodiment illustrated of FIGS. 5 to 7, a first reinforcement strip 26 and a second reinforcement strip 27 are fastened or sewn, respectively, to the second cover tab 29. The first guide tab 17 here is fastened to the first reinforcement strip 26, and the third guide tab 19 here is fastened to the second reinforcement strip 27. The fastening of the guide straps 17, 19 on the glove 1 here thus takes place indirectly, that is to say by way of in each case one reinforcement strip 26, 27. As opposed to the first exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, no third reinforcement strip 32 is present here on the first cover tab 28, since the second guide tab 18 here is fastened directly to the first cover tab 28.

[0079] In contrast to the second exemplary embodiment, the first guide strap 17 and the third guide strap 19 in the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 8 are fastened directly to the second cover tab 29, and the second guide strap 18 is also fastened or sewn, respectively, to the first cover tab 28. In comparison to the first exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the first cover tab 29 in the second and the third exemplary embodiment of FIG. 5 and FIG. 8, respectively, functions as a third reinforcement strip 32, and the second cover tab 29 in the second exemplary embodiment of FIG. 5 functions as a first and at the same time also as a second reinforcement strip, or the second cover tab 29 simultaneously forms the first and the second reinforcement strip 26, 27 of the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 5 to 7, respectively. It could also be said that the cover tabs 28, 29 here replace the reinforcement strips 26, 27, 32, so to speak. One slot is in each case configured in the upper as well as in the lower region of the second cover tab 29 in these cases. The first guide strap 17 herein passes through the first slot in the upper region of the second cover tab 29, and the third guide strap 19 passes through the second slot in the lower region of the second cover tab 29. In the second exemplary embodiment of FIG. 5 as well as in the third exemplary embodiment of FIG. 8 the second guide strap 18 likewise passes through a slot of the first cover tab 28 and is fastened or sewn, respectively, to the latter such that a separate third reinforcement strip 32 is not necessary here either.

[0080] An exemplary embodiment of a hand strap which is in each case likewise equipped with one tensioning system for setting the width of the worn glove and can be fastened to the hand of the user is illustrated in FIGS. 9 to 10. The illustrated hand strap is suitable for being worn on the right hand of the user. The hand strap 1 herein has three openings, specifically in each case one entry opening for the wrist, and in each case one first exit opening 36 for the thumb of the user and a second exit opening 37 for the remaining fingers of the user. The saddle region 23 to which the coupling element 25 for coupling the hand strap to the pole handle is fastened is disposed between the first exit opening 36 and the second exit opening. The coupling element 25 in the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 9 and 10 is configured as a movable eyelet which by means of a reinforcement strip 26 is fastened directly to the hand strap. The reinforcement strip 26 here thus simultaneously serves as a fastening strip. Alternatively however, the coupling element 25 can also be fastened to the hand strap by means of an additional fastening strip 24 which is sewn to the reinforcement strip 26. In the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 9 and 10, the second guide strap 18 is fastened to the first cover tab 28 in the proximity of the tensioning element 11. Alternatively, the second guide strap 18 in the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 11 can also be fixed directly on the tensioning element, or below the tensioning element, respectively. In the hand strap according to FIGS. 9 and 10, the intermediate space, or the gap 30, respectively, between the first cover tab 28 and the second cover tab 29 is backed by a material layer, in a manner similar to that in the glove of FIG. 5 or FIG. 8. While said material layer herein in the glove of FIG. 5 or FIG. 8 is a portion of an internal skin 33, so to speak, the hand strap according to FIGS. 9 and 10 is an elastic material portion 39, for example a wide elastic band or a material portion from neoprene. The flexible material portion 39 herein is preferably fastened to the lower side of the two cover tabs. Alternatively however, the intermediate space, or the gap 30, respectively, may also not be backed by a further material layer, or the hand strap can also be configured so as to be open in the region of the intermediate space 30.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

[0081] 1 Hand-holding device, glove/hand strap [0082] 2 Glove upper side, upper side, back of 1 [0083] 3 Glove lower side, lower side of 1 [0084] 4 Thumb covering [0085] 5 First finger covering, index finger covering [0086] 6 Second finger covering, middle finger covering [0087] 7 Third finger covering, ring finger covering [0088] 8 Fourth finger covering, little finger covering [0089] 9 Wrist region of 1 [0090] 10 Wrist seam of 1 [0091] 11 Tensioning element [0092] 12 Tensioning wheel [0093] 13 Tensioning lace, tensioning cable [0094] 14 First deflection portion of 13 [0095] 15 Second deflection portion of 13 [0096] 16 Third deflection portion of 13 [0097] 17 First guide strap for 14 [0098] 18 Second guide strap for 15 [0099] 19 Third guide strap for 16 [0100] 20 Tensioner housing [0101] 21 First recess for 13 on 20 [0102] 22 Second recess for 13 on 20 [0103] 23 Saddle region between 4,5 or between 36, 37, respectively [0104] 24 Fastening strip for 25, fastening element [0105] 25 Movable strap, coupling element [0106] 26 First reinforcement strip [0107] 27 Second reinforcement strip [0108] 28 First cover tab [0109] 29 Second cover tab [0110] 30 Intermediate space, gap between 28, 29 [0111] 31 Variable region [0112] 32 Third reinforcement strip [0113] 33 Internal skin [0114] 34 Edge of 28 [0115] 35 Edge of 29 [0116] 36 First exit opening for the thumb [0117] 37 Second exit opening for the remaining fingers [0118] 38 Fourth reinforcement strip [0119] 39 Elastic material portion [0120] B30 Width of 30 [0121] L Longitudinal axis of 1 [0122] S1 First rotation direction, tensioning direction of 12 [0123] S2 Second rotation direction, relaxing direction of 12