EP1813160A1 - Gegen Schläge und Stöße Schutz bietendes Kleidungsstück - Google Patents

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EP1813160A1
EP1813160A1 EP07250322A EP07250322A EP1813160A1 EP 1813160 A1 EP1813160 A1 EP 1813160A1 EP 07250322 A EP07250322 A EP 07250322A EP 07250322 A EP07250322 A EP 07250322A EP 1813160 A1 EP1813160 A1 EP 1813160A1
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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
    • A41D13/015—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with shock-absorbing means
    • 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
    • A41D13/01—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with reflective or luminous safety means
    • 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
    • A41D13/05—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches protecting only a particular body part
    • A41D13/055—Protector fastening, e.g. on the human body
    • A41D13/0581—Protector fastening, e.g. on the human body with permanent fastening means
    • 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
    • A41D13/05—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches protecting only a particular body part
    • A41D13/055—Protector fastening, e.g. on the human body
    • A41D13/0581—Protector fastening, e.g. on the human body with permanent fastening means
    • A41D13/0587—Integral with the garment

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  • the current invention relates to protective garments and in particular to garments affording protection against knocks and/or blows.
  • shields and pads are available for protection while engaging in sporting activities. These shields or pads are worn over or under clothing. A number of manufacturers have tried to incorporate shields or pads into sports clothing, but the clothing is either bulky or cumbersome to wear or offers little real protection against knocks or blows. Such garments also offer little if any environmental protection to the wearer.
  • a garment affording a wearer of the garment protection against knocks and blows comprising an article of clothing made from a thermal material and having two or more layers of protective material sewn into at least one shielding region of the article.
  • the article comprises two or more layers of protective material sewn into shielding regions of the article.
  • the thermal material is one that provides a degree of thermal insulation from one or more environmental conditions selected from a group comprising wet (i.e. water), wind and cold.
  • the protective material is selected from a group comprising EVA foam, expanded foam, 3D mesh and crush resistant closed cell foam.
  • each one of the two or more layers comprises a different one of the protective materials selected from the aforementioned group.
  • the protective material is moulded or shaped to a body profile of the wearer
  • the shielded regions are one or more of the shoulders, elbows, spine, knees or posterior of the article of clothing.
  • FIGs through 10 there is shown various protective garments, for use when engaged in sports activities such as sailing, windsurfing, kite boarding, skiing or snowboarding, comprising a garment having a plurality of padded shielding regions 2. 4. 5, 6, 7 with shock-absorbing qualitics (i.e. a material that has a characteristic of absorbing energy from knock or blows impacted on the material) for protecting particular body parts such as shoulders, elbows, spinc, knees and posterior (buttocks) against knocks and blows sustained while participating in the sports activity.
  • the garment is an undergarment designed to be worn under known sports clothing and can be any article of clothing such as a shirt, pants (e.g. long-johns) or shorts as required.
  • the garment is made from a martial having good thermal properties (i.e. a material providing a degree of thermal insulation) such as Polartec Power Dry technical fabric from US company Malden Mills.
  • the plurality of shielded regions 2.4, 5, 6, 7 each comprise one or more layers 10, 11 of specially selected material having protective shock-absorbing properties. These materials may also have thermal and comfort properties to add to the wearability or the garment
  • the shielded regions comprise an outer layer 11 of 3D Air mesh and an inner layer 10 of perforated EVA foam.
  • the mesh and foam materials arc heat moulded to shape and held in place by sandwiching them between the outer garment layer 9 and an inner panel of fabric 13 stitched to the outer layer 9 around the periphery of the shielded region.
  • the stitching does not penetrate through the layers of protective materials but is tightly positioned around the materials forming a snug pocket between the fabric layers to hold the protective materials in place.
  • the protective materials arc heat moulded to conform to the particular body region where they are to be utilised in a shielding region. This ensures that the protective materials and thus shielded regions are of a proper size and shape which adds to the degree of protection, comfort and wearability of the garment. Heat moulding of the garments is done in accordance with material manufacturers recommendations.
  • the required size and shape of the protective material layers is readily determined by the skilled addressee from body size and shape information well known in the art of garment manufacturer and relates to the size of garment being made (i.e. the size of wearer the garment is designed to fit) and the shape profile of the body part that the shielded region is located to protect.
  • the outer Polartec Power Dry layer has oval openings exposing areas of the 3D Air mesh layer. This is done for aesthetic purposes only, has no functional purpose and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
  • the garment can be worn as an undergarment while participating in sporting activities, such as skiing or snowboarding for example, and helps keep the wearer both comfortable and protected from environmental conditions, in this case cold, and will also affording the wearer a degree of protection against knocks and blows to vulnerable areas of the body such as shoulders, elbows, spine, knees and posterior if the wearer falls or crashes.
  • the garment is an undergarment designed to be worn under regular sports clothing.
  • the garment is designed as an intermediate or an outer layer garment and is made from any fabric that provides a degree of insulation from environmental conditions such as cold, water and wind (i.e. fabrics having thermal, waterproof and/or windproof characteristics) to be expected when engaging in certain sporting activities, including but not limited to water, wind and winter sports, and in particular extreme sports.
  • suitable fabrics include, but are not limited to polar fleece, and merino/spandex and polyester/spandex composites.
  • a composite fabric is an engineered fabric made from two or more components. Spandex is a manufactured elastomeric fibre that can be repeatedly stretched without breaking and will still recover to its original length.
  • Polyester is another manufactured fibre that has high strength, excellent resiliency, high abrasion resistance and low absorbency allows the fabric to dry quickly.
  • Merino is wool that gives fabrics comfort and warmth.
  • Polar fleece was created by Malden Mills in 1979 and is a soft napped synthetic wool fabric made from Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and has similar properties to wool at a faction of the weight.
  • PET Polyethylene Terephthalate
  • the stitching does not penetrate through the layers of protective materials. In other embodiments it is envisaged that the stitching penetrates one or more of the layers of protective material to hold the layers more firmly in place. Additionally, the layers may also be held together and to the fabric by an adhesive.
  • the layers of shock-absorbing material are held in place by sandwiching them between the outer garment layer and an inner fabric panel stitched to the outer layer.
  • the inner panel of fabric is stitched to the outside of the garment or the protective layers are sewn directly into the outside or inside of the garment fabric, without sandwiching between an additional fabric panel.
  • various other protective materials are employed for the shielding regions.
  • Such materials include EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) foam, expanded foam, 3D mesh and crush resistant closed cell foam.
  • Ethylene vinyl acetate is a mixture of polyethylene and vinyl acetate plastics. It is a soft foamy plastic with high shock-absorption properties and is commonly used in the midsoles of shoes.
  • the garment may be made for recreational sports people that participate at a modest level within a sporting activity and another embodiment of the garment may be made for expert, professional or daredevil sports people that participate at a more extreme level within the same sporting activity.
  • the garment for recreational sports people has only one or two layers of protective material in shielding regions, whereas the garment for extreme or daredevil sports people has two or three or more protective layers in each shielded region.
  • certain areas of the body are more readily knocked or are more sensitive to knocks or blows and so within the one garment different shielded regions may have a different number of protective layers to give a suitable level of shock-absorbing protection for that region.
  • garments have multiple layers comprising perforated EVA foam & Air Mesh in shielding regions at the spine, posterior, elbow, shoulders and knees, and a single layer of perforated impact foam in shielding regions at the thigh, hip, shoulder blades and neck.
  • each layer will comprise a different one of the protective materials selected from the aforementioned group providing its own unique form of protection.
  • the protective materials selected from the aforementioned group providing its own unique form of protection.
  • comfort and protection are improved over a single thinker layer of material. Regions of thinner layered materials are more easily conformed to the body shape for comfort and absorb greater amounts of impact energy through contact surfaces between layers.
  • FIG 13 An example only of an alternative embodiment is illustrated in Figure 13.
  • the shielded regions have an additional middle layer 12 of crush resistant closed cell foam for additional protection.
  • the foam consists of polyethylene or polypropylene in an elastic adhesive.
  • a typical example is Brock Foam from Brock USA (ww.brockusa.com).
  • the foam is also heat moulded to shape and located between the fabric layers with the EVA foam and 3D mesh layers.
  • shock-absorbing properties also refers to various protective materials having shock-absorbing properties. This is again not meant to limit the scope of the invention. This list comprises only the most suitable shock-absorbing materials known to and used by the applicant at the time of preparing this application. Many other such materials are known and can be employed in the invention. It is also envisaged that future materials may be developed that are thinner or more flexible or have superior shock-absorbing properties to those currently known and such new materials can readily be employed in the current invention.
  • garments according to this invention may find application in many other less extreme and/or conventional sports than those mentioned above in the description.
  • the invention may provide garments for rugby, Soccer and like winter contact sports or even summer sports.
  • One example is, say, batsman's clothing for Cricket in which the garment is designed to be worn as a single layer and has shielded regions located in the forearms, leg, thigh and groin areas of the clothing articles.
  • the batsman's garment is made from a fabric having thermal characteristics aimed at keep the batsman cool and dry on hot days.
  • the advantage of the invention in this application is that the batsman is afforded a greater level of both environmental and impact protection than provided by his regular batting attire without adding unduly to its bulkiness or discomfort.
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