Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
  • A41D15/00—Convertible garments
  • A41D15/04—Garments convertible into other articles
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45F—TRAVELLING OR CAMP EQUIPMENT: SACKS OR PACKS CARRIED ON THE BODY
  • A45F4/00—Travelling or camp articles which may be converted into other articles or into objects for other use; Sacks or packs carried on the body and convertible into other articles or into objects for other use
  • A45F4/02—Sacks or packs convertible into other articles or into objects for other use
  • A45F4/12—Sacks or packs convertible into other articles or into objects for other use into coats or capes

Definitions

• Garment convertible into backpack.
• the present invention relates, in general, to a garment capable of being transformed into a backpack.
• the invention relates to a garment suitable for covering at least the bust of a user, said garment having two opposite faces, front and back, at least one of these faces being provided with a large external pocket.
• the junction sides of said face are provided with one or more first closing half-bands capable of cooperating with one or more second complementary closing half-bands provided externally on another part of the garment, so that the coming in cooperation between the first and second closing half-bands produces a bag delimited on one side by said pocket and on the other by the zone of the other part of the garment circumscribed by said second closing half-bands, the others parts of the garment that can be folded and retained in said bag outside of the wearing periods, while the storage volume offered between the pocket and the face of the garment on which it depends remains fully accessible.
• a garment of this type is known from US-A-4,476,587.
• the object of the present invention is to remedy this drawback and, to this end, said other part of the garment is a part of the face of the garment opposite the face provided with said large pocket, one of the faces of said bag is provided externally.
• suspenders allowing it to be worn like a backpack, said large pocket retaining, when wearing a backpack, the same orientation as that which it has when wearing a garment.
• the zone of the opposite face of the garment circumscribed by said second closing half-bands corresponds to the zone delimited by a second pocket provided on this opposite face.
• the closing half-bands used according to the invention can be of any suitable nature, for example being half-bands furnished with male and female pressure elements, half-bands furnished with gripping means such as those known under the brand. Velcro, etc., but the most preferred half-closing bands are half-zipper bands which can be joined two by two by a suitable slider.
• the garment has a vertical middle opening on its "front" side and the pocket provided on said face is a ventral pocket subdivided into two pockets or groups of pockets by the middle opening, said middle opening being itself provided with appropriate closing means.
• the garment according to the invention will advantageously be a garment with a vertical vertical opening on the front and it will comprise, on the one hand, a ventral pocket subdivided into two pockets or two groups of pockets by said median opening and, on the other hand part, a back pocket, said ventral and back pockets being able to be joined along their respective periphery to form between them a backpack whose straps are attached externally to the back pocket, the rest of the garment can be folded and retained between the two faces of said bag, while the storage volume offered between said back pocket and the back of the garment remains fully accessible, said pockets retaining, when wearing as a backpack, the same orientation as that which they have during of wearing clothes.
• FIG. 1 is a partial front view of the garment according to the invention, in the fully unfolded state
• - Figure 2 is a partial back view of the garment of Figure 1
• FIG. 3 is a front view of the garment being stored in the bag
• FIG. 4 is a back view of the garment being stored in the bag
• FIGS. 5, 6, 7 and 8 show respectively from the front, from the back, from the profile and from below the backpack containing the fully folded garment
• FIG. 9 shows the backpack of Figures 5 to 8 seen from above with its flap open.
• the fronts 1a and 1b of the anorak are joined by a zipper F1.
• the fronts 1a and 1b and the back 2 have a hem 8 in which a slide has passed, the ends 9 of which emerge on the front of the anorak.
• the fronts 1a and 1b of the anorak are respectively provided with a pocket 10a and 10b each having a bellows, only one of which, 11, is visible in FIG. 1.
• Each pocket 10a, 10b can in fact be subdivided by a puncture 12, in an accessible upper pocket according to 13 and an accessible lower pocket according to 14.
• An additional pocket 15 can also be applied to each of the pockets 10a, 10b.
• the upper part of the pockets 10a and 10b has a hem 26 in which a slide is mounted, the ends of which emerge along 27.
• a tab 28 is permanently fixed to the pocket 10b and, by detachable means, to the pocket 10a.
• This tab 28 includes a pressure member female with which a male pressure member is capable of cooperating, provided at the end on the tab 6 of the flap 7.
• the edge of the pockets 10a, 10b, with the exception of that along the zipper F1, is provided over its entire length with a half zipper F2a and F3a respectively.
• This same edge of the pockets 10a and 10b is sewn respectively on the half-fronts la and lb with the exception of the zones corresponding to the pocket openings 13 and 14 (seam indicated in thicker line on the right part of FIG. 1).
• the back 2 of the anorak is provided with a large back pocket 16 sewn along its periphery on the back 2, except for the area of said pocket 16 forming a flap 7.
• the periphery of the back pocket 16 (except for flap 7) is provided with two zipper half-bands F2b and F3b respectively.
• a slider 17 (FIG. 2) is adapted to bring in cooperation the half-zippers F2a and F2b, while a slider 18 (FIG. 1) is adapted to bring in cooperation the half-strips of zipper F3a and F3b .
• the back pocket 16 is separated from the back of the garment by a lining having a free end 19 on which the assembly of the half-zippers F2b and F3b ends.
• This lining provides an additional compartment isolated from the back 2 of the anorak. It is therefore possible to slide objects between the pocket 16 and the lining, as well as between the lining and the back 2.
• the pocket 16 is provided with a tab 20 for fixing a pair of suspenders 21 by means of a ring 22.
• the opposite end of the suspenders 21 is provided with a carabiner 23 capable of coming to cooperate with a ring 24 depending on a lug 25.
• Figures 3 and 4 show the garment being folded. As can be seen better in FIG.
• the next step consists in regrouping the upper part of the garment which still protrudes from the pockets 10a, 10b, 16 and in terminating the engagement of the half-zippers F2a, F2b and F3a, F3b.
• the assembly is as seen, in top view, in Figure 9.
• the assembly In the folded state, as can be seen in FIGS. 5, 6, 7 and 8, the assembly is absolutely presented as a backpack.
• the pockets 15 remain accessible from the outside.
• the flap 7 When the flap 7 is raised, one can have access on the one hand to the compartment delimited between the internal face of the back pocket 16 and the lining and, on the other hand, to the upper ventral pockets according to 13- By slightly opening the closures to slide F2 and F3, there is also access to the remaining free space between the lining and the back of the anorak.

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  • 1986-09-22 FR FR8613235A patent/FR2604066B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
• 1987
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