JP3084509U - Reflective vest - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide a reflection vest capable of improving visibility regardless of day or night. A vest body 1 is provided on the left and right front bodies 2 and 3 of a vest body 1 attached to a body and on the left and right sides of a back body part 4.
Reflection sign strip 8 from the left and right shoulders 5, 6 to the hem 7
In the reflective vest with A, 8B, 9A, and 9B attached, the reflective marker bands 8A, 8B, 9A, and 9B were colored with white retroreflective bands 15, 16 made of a white retroreflective sheet material and a fluorescent substance. A colored retroreflective band 17 made of a colored retroreflective sheet material is arranged adjacently and alternately in a stripe shape.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a reflective vest worn mainly by police officers when handling traffic accidents or conducting inspections.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 A conventional reflective vest is constructed by attaching a reflective marker band to the left and right front and rear body portions of the vest body from the left and right shoulders to the hem of the vest body. The reflective marking strip is generally made of a retroreflective sheet material (for example, trade name, reflex site, registered trademark).

As the retroreflective sheet material, there are a non-colored one (generally referred to as white) and a one colored with a reddish color close to yellow or orange. Any of the colored retroreflective sheet materials is selected and employed.

[0004] Meanwhile, the retroreflective sheet material is configured based on white (non-colored), and the colored retroreflective sheet material is manufactured by mixing a colorant or the like with a white base material. Therefore, white (non-colored) is superior to colored ones in reflection luminance. Especially at night, the difference becomes clear. In other words, white ones have high reflectivity and therefore good visibility, but colored ones have low reflection light intensity as compared with white ones, so that visibility is low.

[0005] On the other hand, as described above, white has good visibility at night, but has poor visibility in the daytime and the like as compared with colored ones. In this regard, colored ones have better visibility in the daytime than white.

Therefore, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the reflective vest is configured to be reversible, and a reflective sign made of, for example, a colored retroreflective sheet material colored yellow or red is provided on the surface side of the vest body. At the same time as attaching the band, a reflective sign band made of a white retroreflective sheet material is attached to the back side of the waistcoat body, and worn with the front side (colored side) facing up in the daytime, and the backside ( A reversible reflective vest worn with the white side facing the surface has been proposed. According to this reversible reflective vest, the above-mentioned problems seem to be solved.

However, the following problems still remain with the reversible reflection vest. (1) The reversible type has a reflective marking band made of a retroreflective sheet material provided on both the front and back surfaces of the vest body, so that the production cost increases. (2) When the reflective vest is used continuously from daytime to nighttime, the vest is turned upside down, which may be troublesome and may cause the user to inadvertently forget to turn it over. In this case, in the nighttime, when the colored side is worn on the surface, the visibility is reduced because the reflected light intensity is weaker than the white side as described above, and as a result, the driver of the running car wears the waistcoat. It may cause a traffic accident without noticing the presence of a person. In addition, when wearing with the white side facing up in the daytime, the same problem as described above may occur. (3) At dusk or when there is a haze, there is a problem that the visibility is reduced with only one color of white or colored.

[0008]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a reflection vest capable of improving visibility both day and night.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above object, of the present invention, the invention according to claim 1 is applied to the left and right front and rear body portions of the vest body to be worn on the body, and from the left and right shoulders to the hem portion of the vest body. In a reflective vest having a reflective marker band attached to the reflective vest, the reflective marker band includes a white retroreflective band composed of a white retroreflective sheet material and a colored retroreflective sheet material composed of a retroreflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance. It is characterized in that the reflection bands are arranged alternately adjacent to each other in a strip shape. In this specification, “white retroreflective sheet material” means an uncolored retroreflective sheet material, that is, an uncolored retroreflective sheet material.

[0010] According to the reflective vest configured as described above, the colored retroreflective zone is easily noticeable in the daytime, and in particular, since the reflective zone is colored with a fluorescent substance, visibility is low. improves. Also, at night, the white retroreflection band emits strong reflection light, so that visibility is good. At the same time, the colored retroreflection band emits fluorescent coloring reflection light, and these two colors of reflection light are reflected. The visibility improves due to the synergistic effect of. Thus, according to the present invention, visibility can be improved regardless of day or night.

In the present invention, the arrangement of the white and colored retroreflective bands of the reflective marker band is not particularly limited. For example, as in the invention of claim 2, the colored retroreflective bands are arranged at the center, and A white retroreflective band can be arranged on both sides to form a stripe. Further, the color of the colored retroreflective band is not particularly limited, but, for example, yellow, lime green or red based color can be adopted as in the invention of the third aspect.

[0012] In the present invention, the two reflective marker bands on the front body side are substantially V-shaped from the left and right shoulders to the hem of the waistcoat body with the two reflective marker bands as in the invention of claim 4. It can be configured to form a letter shape. Further, the left and right front bodies are provided with a slanted band portion having a slant angle so as to intersect in a V-shape from the left and right shoulders of the vest body to the center of the chest, as in the invention of claim 5. A vertical band extending vertically to the lower end of each of the two belts and reaching the hem. The opposite edges of the two vertical bands extend from the lower end to the upper end of the two vertical bands. It is possible to adopt a configuration in which a zipper is attached so that the space between the front and rear sides can be freely separated, and the reflective marker band attached to the left and right front bodies is formed in a shape corresponding to the left and right front bodies. .

In the present invention, as in the invention according to claim 6, a reflective marker band is attached to the bottom of the vest body from one end to the other end, and the reflective marker band has a white retroreflective property. It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which a white retroreflective band made of a sheet material and a colored retroreflective band made of a retroreflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance are alternately arranged in a stripe shape. According to the reflective vest having this configuration, the reflected light is also emitted from the skirt of the reflective vest, so that the visibility is further improved.

[0014]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 Hereinafter, an example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view a and a rear view b showing an embodiment of the reflection vest of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an enlarged plan view showing a part of the reflection sign band of the reflection vest in the embodiment. FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2, and FIG.

In FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, the reflection vest of this embodiment (Embodiment 1) is a front vest of the vest body 1 formed to be attached to the upper body of the body, that is, a left front body. 2 and the front body 3 on the right and the left and right sides of the back, that is, on the left and right sides of the back body part 4, from the left and right shoulders 5 and 6 of the vest body 1 to the hem 7, the reflective marker bands 8A, 8B and 9A. , 9B are attached by sewing or the like. The reflective marker bands 8A and 9A on the front body 2 and 3 sides of the first embodiment are approximately V-shaped by being applied to the left and right shoulders 5 and 6 of the waistcoat body 1 from the left and right shoulders 5 and 6 with the two marker bands 8A and 9A. It is configured to form a shape. Further, the reflection vest of this embodiment has a waist belt portion 10 extending from one end to the other end of the skirt 7 of the vest body 1, and the waist belt portion 10 also has a reflective label extending from one end to the other end. The band 11 is attached by sewing or the like.

The waistcoat body 1 is made of a mesh cloth or the like, and is engaged with a hook (a hook 12 in the figure) such as a hook 12 or a sheet fastener attached to an appropriate portion of the torso belt portion 10 to form the clothes 13. It is configured to be worn on the upper body of the body 14 from above.

The reflective marker bands 8A, 8B, 9A and 9B are white retroreflective bands 15 and 16 made of a white retroreflective sheet material, and colored retroreflective bands made of a retroreflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance. 17 are arranged adjacently and alternately in a stripe shape.

As a coloring agent used in the colored retroreflective band 17 made of the colored retroreflective sheet material, for example, a fluorescent pigment or the like is used. After the addition, the retroreflective sheet material 17a can be manufactured from this raw material by a conventional method. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, white retroreflective sheet materials 15a and 16a and retroreflective sheet materials 17a colored with a fluorescent substance are alternately adjacent to a sheet base material 18 made of, for example, vinyl chloride. Then, both sides of the sheet materials 15a, 16a, 17a are heated and pressed by a high-frequency welder or the like to be welded 19 to the sheet base material 18, thereby producing reflective marker bands 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B. be able to. The reflective marker bands 8A, 8B, 9A and 9B can be manufactured by purchasing a commercially available white and colored retroreflective sheet (for example, trade name, reflex site, registered trademark) and combining white and colored. .

The reflective marker bands 8A, 8B, 9A, and 9B of the first embodiment have a colored retroreflective band 17 arranged at the center and white retroreflective bands 15 and 16 arranged on both sides thereof. It is configured in a stripe shape. Further, as the color of the colored retroreflective band 17, it is preferable to adopt a conspicuous color such as yellow, lime green, or a reddish color close to orange.

In the reflective vest of this embodiment, a reflective marker band 11 is sewn from one end to the other end of the skirt 7 of the vest body 1 and, therefore, from one end to the other end of the waist belt 10. And so on. The reflective marker band 11 is formed in a stripe shape by alternately adjoining white retroreflective bands 21 and 22 made of a white retroreflective sheet material and retroreflective bands 23 made of a colored reflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance. It is arranged and arranged. The other configuration and the like of the reflective marker band 11 are the same as those of the reflective marker band 8A.

The reflective vest of the first embodiment is configured as described above, and is worn on the body 14 from above the clothes 13 on the upper body just like the conventional reflective vest, as shown in FIG.

According to the reflection vest of the first embodiment, the colored retroreflection zones 17 and 23 are easy to see in the daytime, and particularly these reflection zones are colored with a fluorescent substance. Therefore, the visibility is further improved. Also, at night, the portions of the white retroreflective bands 15, 16, 21, 22 emit strong reflected light, so that the visibility is good. At the same time, the portions of the colored retroreflective bands 17, 23 also emit fluorescent colored reflected light. Are emitted, and the visibility is improved by the synergistic action of the reflected lights of these two colors. As described above, according to the reflection vest of Embodiment 1, visibility can be improved regardless of day or night. In the first embodiment, the hook 12 is used as a stopper for the torso belt portion 10. However, it is needless to say that a planar fastener (for example, Velcro, registered trademark) or the like can be used as the stopper.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing another embodiment of the reflection vest of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof, and FIG. 7 is a front view showing a part of the reflection vest with the zipper opened. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a wearing state of the reflective vest.

5 to 8, the reflection vest of this embodiment (Embodiment 2) is characterized by the configuration of the front body of the vest body 1.

That is, the left and right front bodies 2 and 3 of the vest body 1 according to the second embodiment are inclined at an angle so as to intersect in a V-shape from the left and right shoulders 5 and 6 to the center of the chest. It is composed of inclined bands 2A, 3A and vertical bands 2B, 3B extending to the lower ends of the two bands 2A, 3A and reaching the skirt 7. With this configuration, when the vest body 1 is worn and a zipper, which will be described later, is closed, the left and right front bodies 2 and 3 are formed in a Y-shape through the mounting position of the class chapter 30 (see FIG. 8) on the chest of the clothes 13. It is designed to be attached continuously.

Here, the class badge 30 will be described. Generally, a police officer puts the class badge 30 on the collar or the chest (upper part of the breast pocket) of the clothes 13 (outerwear or shirt). For this reason, when the reflective vest configured to cross the left and right front bodies in a V-shape as in Embodiment 1 is worn, particularly when the class emblem 30 is attached to the chest of the clothes 13, the mounting position of the class emblem is increased. Is covered with the left or right front body and becomes invisible from the outside.As a result, it is difficult to tell whether the wearer of the reflective vest is a police officer or not. Had. According to the reflection vest of the second embodiment, the above problem can be solved.

A zipper 31 is attached to the opposite edges of the vertical bands 2B, 3B so as to extend from the lower end to the upper end of the vertical bands 2B, 3B. 31A is one zipper portion of the zipper 31, 31B is the other zipper portion, and 32 is a slider.

The reflective marker bands 8A and 9A attached to the left and right front bodies 2 and 3 of the waistcoat body 1 of the second embodiment by sewing or the like correspond to the left and right front bodies 2 and 3, respectively. It is composed of inclined bands 41A and 42A formed to correspond to the inclined bands 2A and 3A, and vertical bands 41B and 42B formed to correspond to the vertical bands 2B and 3B.

Further, the torso belt portion 51 provided on the skirt portion 7 of the vest body 1 according to the second embodiment is provided at the lower ends of the vertical bands 2B, 3B of the front bodies 2, 3 in a horizontal direction. It has front belts 52 and 53 of appropriate width and length, and a rear belt 54 of appropriate width and length provided at the lower end of the back body part 4 in the horizontal direction. In the sheet fastener 55, one fastener component 55A of the planar fastener 55 is attached by sewing or the like, and the other fastener component 55B is attached to both ends of the rear belt 54 by sewing or the like. The both ends of the front belts 52 and 53 are configured to be detachably fastened. With the configuration as in the second embodiment, the torso belt portion 51 can be arbitrarily adjusted in length to be fixed, but the torso belt portion 51 is divided into a front belt and a rear belt. Instead, the configuration may be appropriately changed to a configuration other than that shown in the drawings, such as by integrally forming both as in the first embodiment. A reflective marker strip 11 having the same structure as that of the first embodiment is attached to one end of the hem 7 from one end to the other end thereof, that is, from one end to the other end of the trunk belt 51 by sewing or the like. In addition, the hooks can be freely replaced with hooks or the like without using a planar fastener. Since other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.

The reflective vest according to the second embodiment is configured as described above, and is worn on the upper body of the body 14 from above the clothes 13 as shown in FIG. According to the second embodiment, the same operation and effect as those of the first embodiment can be obtained.

[0031]

[Effect of the invention]

 ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the reflection vest which can improve a visibility regardless of day and night can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view a and a rear view b showing an embodiment of the reflection vest of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an expanded plan view showing a part of a reflective marker band of the reflective vest according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a wearing state of the above reflective vest.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing another embodiment of the reflection vest of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a rear view of the same.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a part of the reflection vest shown in FIG. 5 in a state where a zipper is opened.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a wearing state of the reflective vest shown in FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Waistcoat body 2, 3 ... Left and right front body 4 ... Rear body part 5, 6 ... Shoulder part 7 ... Bottom part 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B ... Reflection sign band 15, 16 ... White retroreflective band 17 ... Coloring recursion Reflection band

Claims (6)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A reflective vest comprising a vest body attached to a body, a left and right front body and a left and right back body part, and a reflective vest band attached to the vest body from the left and right shoulders to the hem. The reflective marker band is configured by alternately arranging a white retroreflective band made of a white retroreflective sheet material and a colored retroreflective band made of a retroreflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance in a stripe shape. Characterized by being a reflective vest. 2. The reflection vest according to claim 1, wherein
The reflective vest is characterized in that the reflective marker band is arranged in a stripe shape by arranging the colored retroreflective band at the center and arranging the white retroreflective band on both sides thereof. 3. The reflection vest according to claim 1, wherein the color of the colored retroreflective band is yellow, lime green, or red. 4. The reflection band on the front body side is formed so as to form a substantially V-shape extending from the left and right shoulders to the hem of the waistcoat body with the both reflection sign bands. The reflective vest according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein: 5. The left and right front bodies include a slanted band having a slanted angle extending from the left and right shoulders of the waistcoat body to the center of the chest so as to intersect in a V-shape. And a vertical band extending vertically to a hem at a lower end of the vertical band. The opposing edges of the vertical bands are connected to the vertical band at a distance from a lower end to an upper end of the vertical bands so as to be freely separated. The zipper to be worn is attached, and the reflective marker strip attached to the left and right front bodies is formed in a shape corresponding to the left and right front bodies. Reflective waistcoat. 6. A reflective marker band is attached to the skirt of the vest body from one end to the other end, and the reflective marker band is
A white retroreflective band made of a white retroreflective sheet material and a colored retroreflective band made of a retroreflective sheet material colored with a fluorescent substance are alternately arranged in a stripe shape. The reflection vest according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.