CA2289895A1 - Extendable sleeve cuff with thumb hole - Google Patents
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A cold weather garment having sleeves includes an extendable sleeve cuff which can be extended to cover the hand, and wherein the extendable sleeve cuff includes a thumb opening through which a wearer's thumb can project to prevent movement of the extendable sleeve cuff during movement of the wearer's arms, fingers and thumbs, thus providing continued coverage and warmth while also allowing unfettered use of the fingers and thumbs.
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EXTENDABLE SLEEVE CUFF WITH THUMB HOLE
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cold weather outer garment, such as a jacket, coat, or the like, having an extendable sleeve cuff which may be pulled outwardly away from the open distal end of a sleeve and over at least a portion of the hand of a person wearing the cold weather outer garment to provide coverage of at least a portion of the wearer's hand if desired.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
During may cold weather activities, such as snow mobiling, ice fishing, etc., it may be desirable to utilize the dexterity of the fingers to manipulate various items in the cold weather environment. In order to use fingers effectively to perform various activities it is often necessary to remove gloves or mittens. In such cases, while it may be necessary to expose the forgers directly to the cold weather environment, it is often desirable to minimize such exposure by covering at least a portion of the hand. One method of achieving the objective of covering at least a portion of the hand while exposing the fingers to allow unfettered use of the fingers during manipulation of items is to use fingerless gloves. However, disadvantages with fingerless gloves are that they are not readily available commercially, and are inconvenient because they must be stored such as in pockets, compartments, or the like, until, or unless, they are needed. At the time at which the fingerless gloves are needed, regular gloves with fingers can be removed from the hand and replaced with the fingerless gloves. This can be both time consuming and inconvenient.
Coats, jackets, and other cold weather outer garments having sleeves with an extendable sleeve cuff are known. Known extendable sleeve cuffs are typically mere extensions of the sleeve. A disadvantage with such extendable sleeve cuffs is that they are not secured to the wearer's hand, and can, therefore, easily move toward the sleeve away from the hand during arm movements, and during manipulation of the forgers. As a result the known sleeve cuff extensions do not always provide coverage of the hand when desired, particularly at times when coverage of the hand and the additional warmth provided by coverage of the hand are most desired, e.g., such as when the forgers are being used to manipulate items in cold weather, such as to service a snowmobile.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is directed to a cold weather garment having sleeves with an extendable sleeve cuff which will stay in place during movement of the arms and manipulation of the fingers, thereby providing continuous coverage of at least a portion of the hands, as desired. In particular, the invention provides a cold weather garment having sleeves, and an extendable sleeve cuff which can be tucked into a space defined between the wearer's arms and the sleeves of the cold weather garment, or withdrawn from the space between the wearer's arms and the cold weather garment to cover at least a portion of the wearer's hands, as desired. In order to retain the sleeve cuffs in an extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands, the sleeve cuffs are provided with an opening through which the wearer's thumb can project. The opening or thumb hole provides a means by which the extendable sleeve cuffs are retained in a fully extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cold weather garment according to the invention, including sleeves, and extendable sleeve cuffs, with the extendable sleeve cuffs shown in an extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective showing one of the sleeve cuffs shown in FIG. 1 in a retracted position, in which the wearer's hand is not covered;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary perspective of a sleeve with portions broken away to show an extendable sleeve cuff permanently secured to the sleeve by sewing the sleeve cuff, at its proximal end, in a continuous pattern circumscribing the extendable sleeve cuff;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary perspective of an alternative embodiment in which the sleeve cuff is permanently secured to the sleeve by a plurality of spaced apart or segmented stitches;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary perspective of a sleeve with portions broken away to show an extendable sleeve cuff releasably attached or connected to the interior of the sleeve with snap-type fasteners; and FIG. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of a sleeve with portions broken away to illustrate an alternative embodiment of the invention in which the extendable sleeve cuff is releasably attached or connected to the interior of the sleeve by fabric loops and buttons.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Shown in FIG. 1 is a jacket or coat 10 designed to cover the upper portion of the body of a wearer 12 from about the hips upward to the neck of the wearer to help retain warmth and provide comfort to the wearer in a cold weather environment. Jacket includes sleeves 12, 13 which cover the wearer's arms. Attached to the distal ends of the sleeves (i.e., the ends furthest from the wearer's shoulders) are extendable sleeve cuffs 20. Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 can be tucked inwardly into the sleeves (as shown in FIG. 2) or pulled outwardly to cover at least a portion of the wearer's hands (as shown in FIG. 1).
Extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be made of generally any flexible fabric which can be sewn, stitched, buttoned, or otherwise permanently or releasably attached or connected to the distal ends of sleeves 12, 13. The fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 20 preferably exhibits sufficient flexibility to allow the extendable sleeve cuffs 20 to be tucked away into an annular space between the sleeves 12, 13 and the wearer's arms, such as when the wearer wants to wear gloves or mittens or wants to have his or her hands completely exposed, and to allow the extendable sleeve cuffs 20 to be pulled out from the annular space between sleeves 12, 13 and the wearer's arms, such as when the wearer wants to cover at least a portion of his or her hands while leaving the forgers exposed to allow full dexterity and facilitate unfettered manipulation of items. In addition to being flexible, it is desirable that the fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 12, 13 exhibit a sufficient amount of resilient stretchability or extensibility so that the extendable cuffs 20 will conformingly fit hands of various sizes. It is also desirable that the fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 20 exhibit excellent insulating properties. Examples of suitable fabric materials include fabrics knitted from various synthetic and/or natural yarns.
Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 has a cylindrical shell form defining a proximal end which is attached to a distal end of one of sleeves 12, 13 in a manner whereby extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be extended distally away from the distal end of the sleeve 12 or 13 to form a continuous cylindrical shell which covers the arm of the wearer and at least a portion of the wearer's hand. Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 can be permanently attached to sleeves 12, 13 such as by sewing or stitching, or can be releasably attached or connected such as with hook and loop fasteners (e.g., VELCRO~ fasteners), buttons, zippers, straps, snap fasteners, etc.
Permanent attachment of an extendable sleeve cuff 20 to a sleeve 12, 13 can be continuous such as by sewing extendable sleeve cuff 20 to sleeve 13 along a continuous line (as indicated by reference numeral 25 in FIG. 3) which extends around the entire circumference of extendable sleeve cuff 20, at or near the proximal end of sleeve cuff 20. As another alternative, extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be permanently attached to the interior of sleeve 13 by a plurality of discrete stitches 30 (as indicated in FIG. 4) which are spaced apart from each other, such as along a circumferential line located at or near the proximal end of extendable sleeve cuff 20.
In FIG. 5, there is shown an alternative embodiment in which extendable sleeve cuff 20 is releasably attached or connected to sleeve 13 with snap fasteners 35, 36. Snap fasteners generally include male 35 and female 36 connectors which can be snapped together. In general, such fasteners undergo resilient deformation as they are snapped together or snapped apart, and are retained in the connected condition by an interference fit between the connectors. Snap connectors are well known and commonly employed in the garment industry.
As another alternative, extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be removably secured to sleeve 13 such as with fabric loops 40 attached to extendable sleeve cuff 20 at or near the proximal end thereof, and buttons 45 attached to the interior of sleeve 13.
Referring again to FIG. 1, extendable sleeve cuff 20 includes a fingers or hand opening 21, and a thumb opening 22 through which the wearer's thumb 24 can project.
Thumb opening 24 is located at a point intermediate between the proximal and distal ends of extendable sleeve cuff 20. This allows extendable sleeve cuff 20 to be used to cover substantially the entire hand (as shown in FIG. 1), but not the forgers or thumb.
By providing a thumb opening 22 through which thumb 24 extends, extendable sleeve cuff 20 is essentially anchored at the thumb, and cannot move either distally (toward the fingers) or proximally (into sleeves 12, 13) . Accordingly, extendable sleeve cuff 20 provides coverage and warmth for the hand while leaving the forgers and thumb exposed to allow unfettered manipulation, and full use of the dexterity of the forgers and thumb.
The thumb opening prevents undesirable distal or proximal movement of the extendable sleeve cuff during movement of the arms, fingers and thumb, thus providing uninterrupted coverage of the hand and uninterrupted warmth during such activities.
The extendable sleeve cuff serves two functions. First, it can act as a normal interknit cuff, and, second, it can serve as a thermal hand warmer which will stay in place on the wearer's hand while leaving the forgers and thumb exposed.
The above description is considered that of the preferred embodiments) only.
Modifications of the invention will occur to those skilled in the art and to those who make or use the invention. Therefore, it is understood that the embodiments shown in the drawings and described above are merely for illustrative purposes and not intended to limit the scope of the invention, which is defined by the following claims as interpreted according to the principles of patent law, including the doctrine of equivalents.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cold weather outer garment, such as a jacket, coat, or the like, having an extendable sleeve cuff which may be pulled outwardly away from the open distal end of a sleeve and over at least a portion of the hand of a person wearing the cold weather outer garment to provide coverage of at least a portion of the wearer's hand if desired.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
During may cold weather activities, such as snow mobiling, ice fishing, etc., it may be desirable to utilize the dexterity of the fingers to manipulate various items in the cold weather environment. In order to use fingers effectively to perform various activities it is often necessary to remove gloves or mittens. In such cases, while it may be necessary to expose the forgers directly to the cold weather environment, it is often desirable to minimize such exposure by covering at least a portion of the hand. One method of achieving the objective of covering at least a portion of the hand while exposing the fingers to allow unfettered use of the fingers during manipulation of items is to use fingerless gloves. However, disadvantages with fingerless gloves are that they are not readily available commercially, and are inconvenient because they must be stored such as in pockets, compartments, or the like, until, or unless, they are needed. At the time at which the fingerless gloves are needed, regular gloves with fingers can be removed from the hand and replaced with the fingerless gloves. This can be both time consuming and inconvenient.
Coats, jackets, and other cold weather outer garments having sleeves with an extendable sleeve cuff are known. Known extendable sleeve cuffs are typically mere extensions of the sleeve. A disadvantage with such extendable sleeve cuffs is that they are not secured to the wearer's hand, and can, therefore, easily move toward the sleeve away from the hand during arm movements, and during manipulation of the forgers. As a result the known sleeve cuff extensions do not always provide coverage of the hand when desired, particularly at times when coverage of the hand and the additional warmth provided by coverage of the hand are most desired, e.g., such as when the forgers are being used to manipulate items in cold weather, such as to service a snowmobile.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is directed to a cold weather garment having sleeves with an extendable sleeve cuff which will stay in place during movement of the arms and manipulation of the fingers, thereby providing continuous coverage of at least a portion of the hands, as desired. In particular, the invention provides a cold weather garment having sleeves, and an extendable sleeve cuff which can be tucked into a space defined between the wearer's arms and the sleeves of the cold weather garment, or withdrawn from the space between the wearer's arms and the cold weather garment to cover at least a portion of the wearer's hands, as desired. In order to retain the sleeve cuffs in an extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands, the sleeve cuffs are provided with an opening through which the wearer's thumb can project. The opening or thumb hole provides a means by which the extendable sleeve cuffs are retained in a fully extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cold weather garment according to the invention, including sleeves, and extendable sleeve cuffs, with the extendable sleeve cuffs shown in an extended position covering at least a portion of the wearer's hands;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective showing one of the sleeve cuffs shown in FIG. 1 in a retracted position, in which the wearer's hand is not covered;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary perspective of a sleeve with portions broken away to show an extendable sleeve cuff permanently secured to the sleeve by sewing the sleeve cuff, at its proximal end, in a continuous pattern circumscribing the extendable sleeve cuff;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary perspective of an alternative embodiment in which the sleeve cuff is permanently secured to the sleeve by a plurality of spaced apart or segmented stitches;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary perspective of a sleeve with portions broken away to show an extendable sleeve cuff releasably attached or connected to the interior of the sleeve with snap-type fasteners; and FIG. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of a sleeve with portions broken away to illustrate an alternative embodiment of the invention in which the extendable sleeve cuff is releasably attached or connected to the interior of the sleeve by fabric loops and buttons.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Shown in FIG. 1 is a jacket or coat 10 designed to cover the upper portion of the body of a wearer 12 from about the hips upward to the neck of the wearer to help retain warmth and provide comfort to the wearer in a cold weather environment. Jacket includes sleeves 12, 13 which cover the wearer's arms. Attached to the distal ends of the sleeves (i.e., the ends furthest from the wearer's shoulders) are extendable sleeve cuffs 20. Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 can be tucked inwardly into the sleeves (as shown in FIG. 2) or pulled outwardly to cover at least a portion of the wearer's hands (as shown in FIG. 1).
Extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be made of generally any flexible fabric which can be sewn, stitched, buttoned, or otherwise permanently or releasably attached or connected to the distal ends of sleeves 12, 13. The fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 20 preferably exhibits sufficient flexibility to allow the extendable sleeve cuffs 20 to be tucked away into an annular space between the sleeves 12, 13 and the wearer's arms, such as when the wearer wants to wear gloves or mittens or wants to have his or her hands completely exposed, and to allow the extendable sleeve cuffs 20 to be pulled out from the annular space between sleeves 12, 13 and the wearer's arms, such as when the wearer wants to cover at least a portion of his or her hands while leaving the forgers exposed to allow full dexterity and facilitate unfettered manipulation of items. In addition to being flexible, it is desirable that the fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 12, 13 exhibit a sufficient amount of resilient stretchability or extensibility so that the extendable cuffs 20 will conformingly fit hands of various sizes. It is also desirable that the fabric used to make extendable sleeve cuffs 20 exhibit excellent insulating properties. Examples of suitable fabric materials include fabrics knitted from various synthetic and/or natural yarns.
Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 has a cylindrical shell form defining a proximal end which is attached to a distal end of one of sleeves 12, 13 in a manner whereby extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be extended distally away from the distal end of the sleeve 12 or 13 to form a continuous cylindrical shell which covers the arm of the wearer and at least a portion of the wearer's hand. Extendable sleeve cuffs 20 can be permanently attached to sleeves 12, 13 such as by sewing or stitching, or can be releasably attached or connected such as with hook and loop fasteners (e.g., VELCRO~ fasteners), buttons, zippers, straps, snap fasteners, etc.
Permanent attachment of an extendable sleeve cuff 20 to a sleeve 12, 13 can be continuous such as by sewing extendable sleeve cuff 20 to sleeve 13 along a continuous line (as indicated by reference numeral 25 in FIG. 3) which extends around the entire circumference of extendable sleeve cuff 20, at or near the proximal end of sleeve cuff 20. As another alternative, extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be permanently attached to the interior of sleeve 13 by a plurality of discrete stitches 30 (as indicated in FIG. 4) which are spaced apart from each other, such as along a circumferential line located at or near the proximal end of extendable sleeve cuff 20.
In FIG. 5, there is shown an alternative embodiment in which extendable sleeve cuff 20 is releasably attached or connected to sleeve 13 with snap fasteners 35, 36. Snap fasteners generally include male 35 and female 36 connectors which can be snapped together. In general, such fasteners undergo resilient deformation as they are snapped together or snapped apart, and are retained in the connected condition by an interference fit between the connectors. Snap connectors are well known and commonly employed in the garment industry.
As another alternative, extendable sleeve cuff 20 can be removably secured to sleeve 13 such as with fabric loops 40 attached to extendable sleeve cuff 20 at or near the proximal end thereof, and buttons 45 attached to the interior of sleeve 13.
Referring again to FIG. 1, extendable sleeve cuff 20 includes a fingers or hand opening 21, and a thumb opening 22 through which the wearer's thumb 24 can project.
Thumb opening 24 is located at a point intermediate between the proximal and distal ends of extendable sleeve cuff 20. This allows extendable sleeve cuff 20 to be used to cover substantially the entire hand (as shown in FIG. 1), but not the forgers or thumb.
By providing a thumb opening 22 through which thumb 24 extends, extendable sleeve cuff 20 is essentially anchored at the thumb, and cannot move either distally (toward the fingers) or proximally (into sleeves 12, 13) . Accordingly, extendable sleeve cuff 20 provides coverage and warmth for the hand while leaving the forgers and thumb exposed to allow unfettered manipulation, and full use of the dexterity of the forgers and thumb.
The thumb opening prevents undesirable distal or proximal movement of the extendable sleeve cuff during movement of the arms, fingers and thumb, thus providing uninterrupted coverage of the hand and uninterrupted warmth during such activities.
The extendable sleeve cuff serves two functions. First, it can act as a normal interknit cuff, and, second, it can serve as a thermal hand warmer which will stay in place on the wearer's hand while leaving the forgers and thumb exposed.
The above description is considered that of the preferred embodiments) only.
Modifications of the invention will occur to those skilled in the art and to those who make or use the invention. Therefore, it is understood that the embodiments shown in the drawings and described above are merely for illustrative purposes and not intended to limit the scope of the invention, which is defined by the following claims as interpreted according to the principles of patent law, including the doctrine of equivalents.
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1. A cold weather garment comprising a cold weather jacket or coat having sleeves and an extendable sleeve cuff, the extendable sleeve cuff being comprised of a flexible fabric having a tubular form, the extendable sleeve cuff being joined to one of the sleeves of the cold weather garment, a distal end of the extendable sleeve cuff defining a hand opening through which a wearer's hand extends during normal use, and a thumb opening defined in the extendable sleeve cuff.
2. The cold weather garment of claim 1 in which the flexible fabric comprising the extendable sleeve is resiliently stretchable to conform to the wearer's hand.
3. The cold weather garment of claim 2 in which the resiliently stretchable fabric is a knitted fabric.
4. The cold weather garment of claim 1, wherein the proximal end of the extendable sleeve cuff is connected to the interior of the sleeve at or near the distal end of the sleeve.
5. The cold weather garment of claim 4, wherein the extendable sleeve cuff is permanently connected to the sleeve.
6. The cold weather garment of claim 4, wherein the permanent connection of the extendable sleeve cuff to the sleeve is achieved by sewing the extendable sleeve cuff to the sleeve along the circumference of the extendable sleeve cuff.
7. The cold weather garment of claim 5, wherein the extendable sleeve cuff is permanently connected to the sleeve by a plurality of spaced apart stitches.
8. A cold weather garment comprising a cold weather jacket or coat having sleeves and an extendable sleeve cuff comprising a flexible fabric having a tubular form, the extendable sleeve cuff being joined to one of the sleeves of the cold weather garment, a distal end of the extendable sleeve cuff defining a hand opening through which a wearer's hand extends during normal use, and a thumb opening defined in the extendable sleeve cuff, wherein the extendable sleeve cuff is releasably connected to the sleeve.
9. The cold weather garment of claim 8 in which the extendable sleeve cuff is releasably connected to the sleeve by snap fasteners.
10. The cold weather garment of claim 8 in which the extendable sleeve cuff is releasably connected to the sleeve by buttons and fabric loops.
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