METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SPORTS GLOVE, PARTICULARLY A GOALKEEPER'S GLOVE

Abstract

A method for the production of a sports glove, especially of a goal keeper's glove. To improve the wearing comfort of the sports glove the method provides the steps: a) Providing of a laminar carrier substrate; b) Deposition of a plurality of discreet material sections of a foamed plastic material onto at least one side of the carrier substrate; c) Production of at least a section of the sports glove by use of the carrier substrate with the material sections produced according to step b).

Claims

1. A method for the production of a sports glove, especially of a goal keeper's glove, wherein it comprises the steps: a) Providing of a laminar carrier substrate; b) Deposition of a plurality of discreet material sections of a foamed plastic material onto both sides of the carrier substrate; c) Production of at least a section of the sports glove by use of the carrier substrate with the material sections produced according to step b).

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the deposition of the material sections takes place by rolling of an applicator roll on the carrier substrate.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein after carrying out of step b) and prior carrying out of step c) a coating is applied onto the carrier substrate and the material sections, wherein the coating material is preferably paint.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a textile material, a microfiber material or a leather material is used as laminar carrier substrate, especially such a material made from a fiber of block copolymer with the components polyurethane and polyethylene glycol (elastane) and/or of polyester.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the laminar carrier substrate has an anisotropic behaviour in two directions which are perpendicular to another with respect to its stress-strain properties.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material sections consist of polyurethane or comprise this material.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein a further material is mixed into the polyurethane, especially a rubber material, especially natural rubber, or paraffin.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material sections are at least in sections equally distributed material dots on the surface of the carrier substrate.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material sections have the shape of spherical caps, cones and/or pyramids, especially with rhomb-shaped base.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material sections have a height above the carrier substrate, which is between 0.5 mm and 5 mm.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the distance of the material sections is between 1.0 mm and 10 mm, preferably between 1.5 mm and 5 mm.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the distance of the material sections and/or their height above the surface of the carrier substrate is constant.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the distance of the material sections and/or their height above the surface of the carrier substrate is variable, so that regions of material sections with higher concentration and/or height are formed on the carrier substrate.

Description

[0027] FIG. 1 in the front view a goal keeper's glove according to the invention,

[0028] FIG. 2 in the side view a textile carrier material from which a part of the goal keeper's glove is manufactured, wherein the carrier material is provided by means of an applicator roll with material sections in the form of foam dots, and

[0029] FIG. 3 the carrier material with material sections from which the goal keeper's glove is produced.

[0030] In FIG. 1 a sports glove 1 being a goal keeper's glove is shown which comprises two sections 7 and 8, namely the region of the back of the hand 7 and the region of the finger 8. During the production of the section 7 presently a material is used which comprises of a laminar carrier substrate 2 on which material sections 3 are applied; those material sections 3 are designed as foam dots.

[0031] The production of the carrier substrate 2 and the application of the material sections 3 is shown in FIG. 2however only very schematically.

[0032] In the shown embodiment the laminar carrier substrate 2 is provided at its upper side 4 with material sections 3, while the bottom side 5 of the carrier substrate 2 remains here free from material sections 3.

[0033] For the deposition of the material sections 3 an applicator roll 6 is used. Here foamed polyurethane material is guided via inner supply pipes to output nozzles 9; at rolling of the applicator roll 6 on the laminar carrier substrate 2 a respective amount of polyurethane foam is applied onto the carrier substrate 2 so that the material sections 3 are deposited in the form of foam dots at the upper side 4 of the carrier substrate 2.

[0034] The result which is obtained hereby is shown schematically in FIG. 3. As can be seen material sections 3 in the form of foam dots are deposited on the carrier substrate 2. In the embodiment a uniform coverage of the carrier substrate 2 with material sections 3 is given, wherein the material sections 3 are here designed semi-spherical shaped.

[0035] Just as well of course other shapes can be taken in consideration, for example pyramid-shaped designs with a rhomb-shaped basis.

[0036] It can be seen in FIG. 3 that the structure of the material sections are characterized by a distance a between the single foam dots as well as by a height h of the foam dots. The distance a as well as the height h are chosen in such a manner that the desired effect is obtained. Specifically proven values for the distance are 2 mm to 6 mm and for the height 1 mm to 4 mm.

[0037] Thereby, it can be reasonable to provide in certain regions of the carrier substrate 2 a higher density of foam dots as at other locations to create in a respective region of the glove more or less influence of the foam dots.

[0038] As can be seen in FIG. 1 the sports glove 1 is only partial and sectional respectively manufactured from the carrier material 2 which is coated with the foam dots.

[0039] However, it is also possible to produce the whole sports glove 1 from said material.

LIST OF REFERENCES

[0040] 1 Sports glove (Goal keeper's glove) [0041] 2 Laminar carrier substrate [0042] 3 Material section (foam dot) [0043] 4 Side of the carrier substrate [0044] 5 Side of the carrier substrate [0045] 6 Applicator roll [0046] 7 Section (region of the back of the hand) [0047] 8 Section (region of the finger) [0048] 9 Output nozzle [0049] h Height of the material sections [0050] a Distance of the material sections