EP1236408A1 - Wassersportbekleidung mit Mehrschichtzonen - Google Patents

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EP1236408A1
EP1236408A1 EP02002864A EP02002864A EP1236408A1 EP 1236408 A1 EP1236408 A1 EP 1236408A1 EP 02002864 A EP02002864 A EP 02002864A EP 02002864 A EP02002864 A EP 02002864A EP 1236408 A1 EP1236408 A1 EP 1236408A1
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Pascal Vergne
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
    • A41D13/012—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches for aquatic activities, e.g. with buoyancy aids
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
    • A41D13/0002—Details of protective garments not provided for in groups A41D13/0007 - A41D13/1281

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  • the present invention relates to an improvement to water sports clothing of diving suit type, wetsuit, windsurf jacket, etc .
  • Such a garment can also be used in the practice of other sports, such as "wakeboarding” for example. It could also be not a combination but pants or a jacket separate from each other.
  • Such known clothing which must insulate the body from the cold, especially in phase immersion, are generally made from a waterproof material and elastically deformable but thick, usually neoprene.
  • a rotation is carried out during the swimming around the articulation of the shoulder, or in the case of the knees, a flexion is also performed at the level of the patella.
  • Clothes of this type are usually fitted close to the body, but a minimum is necessary at the level of the joints to make movement possible and this the more so as the thickness of the material used is great.
  • An adjustment that would make the material exactly (and permanently) skin lining is not possible due to the thickness of the material, even when its elasticity is important. It follows overheating and irritation, especially in the athlete's joints, such as elbows, knees, shoulders and crotch, due to the friction of these areas of the garment on these parts of the body.
  • it has already been proposed to make zones flexible at the armpits to give more ease in movements.
  • it is known to produce a sealing bellows over the entire back region. But in a case as in the other, it does not avoid direct friction on the skin of the user during of certain movements.
  • Athletes sometimes use thin underwear more or less fitted to the body to limit the inconvenience, but this makes the preparation even longer and a good layering the garment over the undergarment is a delicate exercise.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy this drawback, and to this end relates to a improvement to an aquatic sports garment comprising an outer layer, characterized in that it comprises at least one multilayer zone, comprising at least the outer layer and an underlying layer which, in a protective zone, conforms to the skin elastically deformable to protect it from the contacts of the outer layer, in that the underlying layer has an attachment area by which it is attached directly or indirectly to the outer layer, and in that, at least in the protection zone, both layers are free from each other.
  • the present invention also relates to the characteristics which will emerge during the description which will follow, and which should be considered in isolation or according to all their possible technical combinations.
  • the water sportswear 1 generally designated in FIG. 1 is a combination of which the outer layer (5) is for example constituted by a layer of neoprene of 3 to 8 mm thick. This outer layer is often coated on its outer face with a woven jersey.
  • this garment comprises, facing at least part of a user, in the occurrence opposite a joint such as a shoulder 2, a corresponding zone 3 in which the outer layer 5 is lined with an underlying layer 4 which is very flexible and very elastic which is intended to come into almost permanent contact with the user's skin.
  • the two shoulders of the suit are concerned as could also be knees or elbows.
  • Other parts of the suit could also be provided with an underlying layer within the meaning of the invention, in particular the extremities of the limbs of the suit such as the wrists or the ankles, or still the neckline.
  • This underlying layer 4 has comfort characteristics and hugs the skin of the user in an elastically deformable manner to protect it from contact with the other layer external 5.
  • the latter preferably has mechanical strength characteristics, of insulation and sealing, and forms with the underlying layer 4 the multilayer zone 3 supra.
  • the underlying layer 4 is integral with the combination, that is to say that it is fixed directly or indirectly on the outer layer 5.
  • indirect fixing we hears that the underlying layer can be fixed on an intermediate piece between the underlying layer and the outer layer.
  • this fixation must be effective so that the underlying layer 5 is certainly facing the part of the body of the user that we want to protect more particularly, without the user having to worry about it when he wears his wetsuit, and never folds.
  • the area of attachment of the underlying layer 4 is constituted by its peripheral edge 6. At this peripheral edge, the layer underlying 4 is directly fixed on the internal face of the external layer 5.
  • the underlying layer comprises thus a protection zone which is free with respect to the outer layer 5.
  • the protection zone can move relative to the corresponding zone of the outer layer 5, and vice versa.
  • the outer layer 5 can be peel off from the underlying layer 4 as illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.
  • the outer layer 5 can move laterally relative to the protection zone of the underlying layer 4.
  • the outer layer 5 can move with the movements of the user without the underlying layer 4 sliding on the skin of the user, which avoids friction and irritation.
  • the perimeter P1 of the internal layer 4, forming the attachment zone is substantially identical to that at the perimeter P2 of the layer outer 5 along which the two layers are fixed to each other.
  • the surface of S2 development of the flexion zone delimited inside the perimeter P2 is more important that the development surface S1 of said underlying layer 4 forming the zone protective, all the more so because of the high elasticity of the material of the underlying layer, this surface S1 tends to be reduced to a minimum surface. This creates a magnitude of the outer layer 5 relative to the underlying layer 4 to facilitate movement while removing stress on the user's skin.
  • the outer layer 5 is formed by the material itself, waterproof and elastically deformable, of said garment 1, while the underlying layer 4 is a yoke attached to inside of it.
  • the yoke constituting the underlying layer 4 is obtained from a thin, elastic material, which does not form folds, so as to be press against the skin of a user to protect it when the garment 1 is worn by this one, and to accompany all its movements.
  • the material constituting the yoke 4 is "Lycra” (brand registered and marketed by the Dupont De Nemours Company).
  • the yoke constituting the underlying layer 4 is fixed, along its edge peripheral 6, on the outer layer 5 by heat sealing, sewing or gluing.
  • the material constituting the outer layer 5, like the rest of the garment, is preferably consisting of neoprene or jersey combined with neoprene.
  • the bending zone of the layer external 5 includes, inside the perimeter P2, functional folds 7 obtained by a prior thermoforming operation, to provide additional comfort during their development during a movement.
  • a garment 1 suitable for water sports advantageously comprises 3 multilayer zones at elbows and / or knees and / or shoulders and / or crotch.
  • the outer layer the most rigid, has a certain extent.
  • the outer layer and the underlying layer can be pressed against each other, without the outer layer does not have a scale as described above, but the construction according to the invention will also allow the two layers to move parallel to each other, allowing the outer layer to follow the movements of the body and the underlying layer to stay stuck to the skin to avoid friction.
  • the yoke 4 which constitutes the layer underlying is arranged to match the top of the shoulder of the user, that is to say the convex part of this joint. To do this, just use a substantially flat yoke whose deformation capacities will allow it to fit the shape of the upper part of the shoulder.
  • the yoke 4 is of tubular shape and forms a sleeve through which the user introduces his arm so that the sleeve surrounds any the shoulder so as to protect not only the top of the shoulder but also the armpit of the user.
  • the sleeve 4 is fixed on the internal face of the external layer 5 of the suit by its two end edges 8.
  • One of the edges 8 is therefore fixed on the internal face of the layer outer of the sleeve of the suit, while the other of the edges 8 is fixed on the face internal of the pectoral and dorsal parts of the suit.
  • the shape of this sleeve in the state free, before it is attached to the outer layer of the suit can be that of a tube cylindrical of revolution, or it can be a more complex shape, for example a shape flared at one of the edges 8.
  • the end edges 8 of the sleeve 4 are joined to the outer layer by heat sealing or by gluing.
  • the underlying layer or layers of the garment are produced under the shape of individual panels.
  • several multilayer zones in the sense of the invention be made using a single yoke.
  • This yoke would have then large areas of attachment on the inner face of the outer layer and, at different places, free zones with respect to the outer layer, each of these free zones forming a protection zone.
  • This unique yoke could thus for example extend over all the sleeve of the jumpsuit as well as on a part of the bust, have free areas at the level of the shoulder, elbow and wrist, and be attached to the outer layer at its extremities, as well as on the arm and forearm.
  • This yoke could even completely cover the inside of the suit to form an integral lining.
  • this lining would have areas free of protection; in the other, less sensitive parts, this lining would be fixed to the outer layer and would retain a role of comfort by the texture of its material.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiments described and shown. Especially this improvement applies to clothing which may consist of different materials of those described above and be made up of more complex sets. It applies as soon as irritations / friction are perceptible by the sportsman in the areas of his body in relative movements.

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FR0102926A FR2821247B1 (fr) 2001-02-28 2001-02-28 Vetement de sport a zone multicouche
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