EP1006822B1 - Sportswear including jersey and shorts wherein at least the jersey or the shorts can resist considerable tensile extension - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns a sportswear including a jersey and shorts, characterised in that at least the jersey (1) or the shorts (2) are produced in a fabric whereof at least certain parts (4) have elastic property of sufficient elongation percentage to show deformation of the jersey (1) or the shorts (2) when pulled. The invention is in particular applicable to football sportswear.

Description

The present invention relates to a jersey sports outfit and pants intended to be worn by a sports athlete teams, such as a footballer.

In team or team sports, such as football, involving physical contact between players, anti-backlash gestures are numerous and one of them commonly practiced is the one called "jersey draw".

So, for example in the case of a meeting of two football teams, jersey or pant draw is often practiced between opposing players in order to neutralize the opposing player to prevent him from concluding an action likely to result in the recording of a goal.

This anti-backlash gesture, which is not always observed by the game referee often deprives players of a opportunity team to score goals and decreases the interest of the meeting for the spectators.

US-A-4,937,883 describes a sports uniform in accordance with preambles of claims 1, 2 and 3.

However, the problem that this US patent seeks to solve previous is to make a jersey for baseball player not having wide, flexible sleeves capable of hinder the player's movements.

The object of the present invention is to eliminate the disadvantages above by offering a sports outfit to swimsuit and panties, intended to be worn by a sportsman team sports such as a footballer, and that conforms to each of claims 1, 2 and 3.

Advantageously, the aforementioned elastic fabric has a hysteresis extremely weak.

According to an alternative embodiment, the jersey and / or the panties cover another jersey and / or another panty non-elastic by being joined together and the face outer jersey and / or inner panty has a low coefficient of friction while the internal face the jersey and / or the outer panties also have a low coefficient of friction.

The two jerseys and / or the two pants are joined together at the wrists, belts and collars for jerseys or at belts and socks thigh for panties.

Advantageously, the outer face of the jersey and / or the panties have a high coefficient of friction in order to facilitate entry of the jersey and / or panties.

Preferably, the elastic fabric constituting the jersey and / or the pants are made from fibers based polyester or polyether urethane.

• la figure 1 représente une tenue de sport suivant un premier mode de réalisation de l'invention ;
• les figures 2 et 3 représentent chacune une variante de réalisation de la tenue de sport de l'invention représentée en figure 1 ;
• la figure 4 représente un second mode de réalisation de la tenue de sport de l'invention ;
• la figure 5 représente encore un autre mode de réalisation de la tenue de sport de l'invention ;
• la figure 6 représente en section des fronces du tissu de la tenue de sport de la figure 1 ; et
• la figure 7 est une vue agrandie de la partie cerclée en VII de la figure 6.

The invention will be better understood and other objects, characteristics, details and advantages thereof will appear more clearly in the explanatory description which follows, made with reference to the appended schematic drawings given solely by way of example illustrating several embodiments of the invention and in which:

• Figure 1 shows a sports outfit according to a first embodiment of the invention;
• Figures 2 and 3 each show an alternative embodiment of the sportswear of the invention shown in Figure 1;
• FIG. 4 represents a second embodiment of the sports clothing of the invention;
• FIG. 5 represents yet another embodiment of the sports clothing of the invention;
• 6 shows in section of the gathers of the fabric of the sportswear of Figure 1; and
• FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the part circled in VII of FIG. 6.

Sportswear, as shown in Figure 1, is intended to be worn by a team sports athlete, such as for example a footballer, and includes a jersey 1 and pants 2 with the bottom of the jersey 1 entering the short pants 2.

According to the invention, at least the jersey 1 or the pants 2 is arranged so as to ability to withstand significant and visible elongation when traction is exercised on it or by a player other than the one wearing the uniform.

To this end, according to the first embodiment shown in Figure 1, the shirt 1 or pants 2, is made entirely of an elastic material with coefficient of elongation sufficient to make the deformation visible jersey and / or panty pull. Preferably, the jersey and the panties are made of the same elastically deformable material.

Of course, the elastic fabric constituting the material of the jersey and / or the panties should have extremely low hysteresis and elastic memory practically zero so that sportswear remains legal.

The fabric constituting the jersey and / or the panties is made from fibers with polyester or polyether urethane base can be extended to about 200 times its length at rest or initial. The most famous fiber currently and preferably used to make the fabric of jersey 1 and / or of the pants 2 is the elasthane. Each elastic fiber is generally combined with a rigid fiber, for example cotton or polyamide, in proportions of 5 to 25%, for example by wrapping, single, double or twisted.

Advantageously, the outer surface of the jersey 1 and / or of the pants 2 can have a high coefficient of friction in order to facilitate the entry of jersey 1 or of pants 2 by an opposing player.

Figures 2 and 3 each show an alternative embodiment of the outfit Figure 1.

Thus, according to FIG. 2, the jersey 1 and / or the pants 2 is produced from strips of fabric of non-elastic material 3 extending vertically and bands of fabric in vertical elastic material 4 alternating with bands 3. Each elastic vertical strip 4 has the same properties as the fabric elastic of the jersey 1 and / or of the pants 2 of FIG. 1 and can be produced at starting from elastic fibers as in the embodiment of this figure.

According to the alternative embodiment of Figure 3, the alternating strips of tissue made of elastic and non-elastic material 4 are arranged horizontally. Otherwise, the jersey 1 and / or the pants 2 of this variant embodiment have the same characteristics as the jersey 1 and / or the pants 2 of the held in Figure 2.

According to the embodiment of Figure 4, the sportswear includes the shirt 1 and pants 2 identical to shirt 1 and pants 2 of the Figure 1 and a jersey 5 and pants 6 made from a non-woven fabric elastic or normal sportswear fabric and covered respectively by the jersey 1 and panties 2 by being joined together.

Advantageously, the outer face of the inner jersey 5 and / or of the pants internal 2 is made of a material with a low coefficient of friction, that is to say that it is slippery, while the inside of the outer jersey 1 and / or the external pants 2 are also made of a material with a low coefficient of friction, that is to say slippery with the outer face of the jersey 1 and / or the pants 2 having a high coefficient of friction. Jerseys 1 and 5 are joined together at level of their wrists, belts and collars while the pants 2, 6 are secured together at their belts and thigh stockings.

FIG. 5 represents yet another embodiment of the holding of invention sport.

According to this embodiment, the fabric of the jersey 1 and / or of the pants 2 is non elastic and includes gathers 7 which, as shown in Figure 6, are preformed, in section, in dovetail whose elongated folds include profiled portions 8 of elastic material allowing visible elongation by pull jersey 1 and / or panties 2 and find the jersey and / or panties their original shape after loosening of the traction exerted thereon and / or on it by an opposing player.

Of course, the material constituting the elastic profiled parts 8 can be identical to that used in the context of the preceding embodiments.

The sports clothing described above of the invention allows players to team equipped with such an outfit to clearly signal to the referees any draw jersey and / or panties, which will further penalize players the opposing team and therefore will increase the likelihood of scoring goals and the show will be improved.

Claims (8)

1. Sportswear including jersey (1) and shorts (2) provided to be worn by a team sports player, such as a football player, the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) being made of a fabric some parts (4) of which at least are in a material that can be elastically put out of shape, enabling the jersey and/or the shorts to be elongated up to about 200 times its initial length upon a pull that is exerted onto the jersey and/or the shorts and to recover its original shape after releasing the pull, characterized in that the fabric of which the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) is produced is entirely made of an elastic material.
2. Sportswear including jersey (1) and shorts (2) provided to be worn by a team sports player, such as a football player, the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) being made of a fabric some parts (4) of which at least are in a material that can be elastically put out of shape, enabling the jersey and/or the shorts to be elongated up to about 200 times its initial length upon a pull that is exerted onto the jersey and/or the shorts and to recover its original shape after releasing the pull, characterized in that the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) comprise vertical or horizontal alternate strips (4) of elastic and non-elastic material fabrics.
3. Sportswear including jersey (1) and shorts (2) provided to be worn by a team sports player, such as a football player, the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) being made of a fabric some parts (4) of which at least are of a material that can be elastically put out of shape, enabling the jersey and/or the shorts to be elongated up to about 200 times its initial length upon a pull that is exerted onto the jersey and/or the shorts and to recover its original shape after releasing the pull, characterized in that the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) is also made of a non-elastic fabric that comprises dovetailed preformed creases the lengthwise pleats of which comprise profiled portions of elastic material (8) permitting a visible elongation of the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) when pulled and to recover its original shape after releasing the pull.
4. Sportswear according to claim 1, 2 or 3 characterized in that said elastic fabric has an extremely low hysteresis.
5. Sportswear according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) covers another non-elastic jersey (5) and/or shorts (6) while being integrated together, and the outer face of the inner jersey (5) and/or shorts (6) has a low coefficient of friction while the inner face of the outer jersey (1) and/or shorts (2) has also a low coefficient of friction.
6. Sportswear according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the two jerseys (1,5) and/or the two shorts (2, 6) are integrated together at the wrists, belts and collars for the jerseys (1,5) or at the belts and thigh lower parts for the shorts (2,6).
7. Sportswear according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the exterior face of the jersey and/or shorts (2) has a high coefficient of friction in order to facilitate a grip of the jersey (1) and/or shorts (2).
8. Sportswear according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the elastic fabric of which the jersey (1) and/or the shorts (2) is produced is made from urethane, polyester or polyether based fibers.

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