EP0950361B1

EP0950361B1 - Suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclist

Info

Publication number: EP0950361B1
Application number: EP99107274A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Lino Dainese
Original assignee: Dainese SpA
Current assignee: Dainese SpA
Priority date: 1998-04-16
Filing date: 1999-04-14
Publication date: 2004-07-07
Anticipated expiration: 2019-04-14
Also published as: ES2224482T3; JPH11323632A; DE69918483D1; ATE270505T1; ITVE980013U1; IT245123Y1; DE69918483T2; EP0950361A1

Abstract

A suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclist, characterised in that each of the two legs (2) of the suit is provided lowerly with means enabling it to be removably secured from the outside to the upper edge of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) by adhesion. <IMAGE>

Description

This invention relates to a suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclist, wherein each of both the two suit legs are provided at the lower end thereof with means enabling each suit leg to be removably secured from the outside to the upper edge of the legpiece of the corresponding boot by adhesion, each suit leg being provided at the front thereof with a motorcyclist's shin-bone protection element which is partially superposed on a shin-bone protection element provided at the front of the legpiece of the corresponding boot.
Motorcyclist currently wear suits which at the lower end of the legs are inserted into the legpiece of the boots, to create a kind of protection continuity. However this arrangement gives rise to a series of limitations and drawbacks which this invention proposes to eliminate.
US Patent No. 3,312,982 disclose a combination as above defined wherein both each suit leg and the corresponding legpiece of the corresponding boot being secured to each other by at least one continuous element formed from two elements applied to the suit and boot respectively, and mutually engageable with a connection allowing a limited mutual longitudinal sliding.
A further example of training garment is disclosed in US Patent No. 5,867,826, published after the present priority date.
A first drawback is to ability of water and mud to penetrate between the boot and the suit, or foreign bodies to enter, with risks to the motorcyclist.
Another drawback is that the generally projecting upper edge of the boot can cling undersirably to parts of the motorcycle.
Another drawback is that the discontinuity between the suit and boots penalizes the system aerodynamics, especially considering that in the normal travel position the opening in the motorcyclist's boots faces forwards.
A further drawbacks is that the large area by which the legpiece of the boots is superposed on the lower end of the suit legs results in an undesired increase in the weight of the total clothing of the motorcyclist.
These drawbacks are eliminated according to the invention by a suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclists as described in claim 1 or 2.
Three preferred embodiments of the invention are described in detail hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, on which:

Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of the lower end of a leg of a motorcyclist's suit secured to the corresponding boot, in a first embodiment;
Figure 2 shows the same view in a second embodiment; and
Figure 3 shows the same view in a third embodiment.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 1, the lower end of each leg 2 of the suit comprises internally at the front a self-adhesive element 4 of pull-away type, such as Velcro™, cooperating with an complementary element provided externally on the front of the legpiece of a boot 8. A similar portion 10 can be provided on the rear and/or laterally, to ensure a more effective bond between the leg 2 of the suit and the boot 8.
In this manner, when the motorcyclist puts the suit and boots on, he will take care to make the lower edge of the leg 2 of the suit adhere to the upper edge of the legpiece 6, to create protection continuity, which is further improved by superposing a shin-bone protection element 12, incorporated in the suit leg 2, on a front tongue 14 projecting upwards from the legpiece 6.
This system for retentively connecting the suit and boots together completely eliminates the drawbacks encountered in the prior art, in that:
rain, mud or foreign bodies cannot enter between the suit and the boots, external parts of the motorcycle cannot get caught in the boot legpiece, the overall clothing of the motorcyclist is of high aerodynamic properties, and superposed regions between the suit and boots are reduced to those strictly necessary to obtain integral protection of the motorcyclist.
In the embodiment shown in Figure 2, each suit leg 2 is secured to the corresponding boot 8 by a continuous zip fastener 16, formed from two elements, one applied to the interior of each suit leg 2 and the other applied to the legpiece 6 of the corresponding boot 8. The two elements of the fastener 16 are completely separable from each other, but can be fitted together to connect each suit leg 2 to the upper band of the legpiece 6 of the corresponding boot 8.
The embodiment shown in Figure 3 is derived from the embodiment shown in Figure 1 in that the securing the suit and boot together it comprises means 10 of Velcro TM type located in the lateral and/or rear part of the leg, at the front there being provided a peg 18 applied to the suit leg 2 and slidable along a slot 20 provided in the front of the boot legpiece 6. This allows limited sliding between the suit and boot, and by suitably choosing the inclination of said slot 20 this sliding can take place in a form corresponding to the natural movements made by the motorcyclist during travel.

Claims

A suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclist, wherein each of both the two suit legs (2) are provided at the lower end thereof with means enabling each suit leg (2) to be removably secured from the outside to the upper edge of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) by adhesion, each suit leg being provided at the front thereof with a motorcyclist's shin-bone protection element (12) which is partially superposed on a shin-bone protection element (14) provided at the front of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8), both each suit leg (2) and the corresponding legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) being secured to each other by at least one continuous element (16) formed from two elements applied to the suit and boot respectively, and mutually engageable with a connection allowing a limited mutual longitudinal sliding,
characterised in that the front part of each suit leg (2) and the respective legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) are secured to each other by a peg (18) applied to one of the suit leg (2) and the respective legpiece (6), and made slidable along a guide slot (20) provided in the other of the suit leg (2) and the respective legpiece (6).
A suit and boot combination, particularly for motorcyclist, wherein each of both the two suit legs (2) are provided at the lower end thereof with means enabling each suit leg (2) to be removably secured from the outside to the upper edge of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) by adhesion, each suit leg being provided at the front thereof with a motorcyclist's shin-bone protection element (12) which is partially superposed on a shin-bone protection element (14) provided at the front of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8),
characterised in that the suit (2) and boot (8) are secured to each other by at least one pair of self-adhesive pull-apart elements (4,10) of Velcro TM type located in the rear superposing region between each suit leg (2) and the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) and/or in the lateral superposing regions between the suit leg (2) and the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8), the front part of each suit leg (2) and of the legpiece (6) of the corresponding boot (8) being mutually engaged with a connection allowing limitated mutual longitudinal sliding by a peg (18) applied to one of the two and slidable along a guide slot (20) provided in the other.
A suit and boot combination as claimed in claim 1 or in claim 2, wherein said guide slot (20) is inclined to conform to the natural movements of the motorcyclist.