Classifications

• • 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
  • A41D13/0556—Protector fastening, e.g. on the human body with releasable 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
  • A41D13/02—Overalls, e.g. bodysuits or bib overalls
• • 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
  • A41D13/06—Knee or foot
  • A41D13/065—Knee protectors
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
  • A41D2600/00—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes
  • A41D2600/10—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes for sport activities
  • A41D2600/102—Motorcycling

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a quickly-attachable protection for racing suits, of the kind usually positioned near the knee and on the outer upper side portion of the tibia.
• Nelcro represents a quite complex working from the racing suit's packing point of view.
• the presence of Nelcro, the need to glue it to the protection, the need of a supporting cloth to be sewn to the racing suit are all things which represent additional costs for the racing suits' manufacturer.
• the particular implementation with Nelcro does not exclude some drawbacks due to Nelcro wear with consequent loss in the supporting properties thereof, or drawbacks dues to a not perfect glueing of Nelcro on the plastic member's back.
• the force exerted to detach the protection from the racing suit causes the detachment of Nelcro from the protection member's back. If this happens when one wants to take off the knee slider for any reason but for replacing it because it is worn, this represents a damage of the knee slider, which would become unusable.
• the main object of the present invention is to obviate the above-mentioned drawbacks by providing a protection member of the above said kind, but which can be voluntary removed more easily, which has cheaper costs of the member subject to wear and safe holding upon use.
• the present invention provides a protection of "knee slider" kind for a racing suit or the like, characterized in that it comprises: - a base fixed to the racing suit; - a protection body apt to cooperate with said base; and
• FIG. 1 represents a schematic view of the possible position on a racing suit of the protections object of the present invention.
• FIG. 2 represents a front view of a protection with teeth-like shaped profile
• - Figure 3 represents a front view of the protection with a swallow-tailed coupling according to the invention
• FIG. 4 represents a side view of the protection of figure 3;
• - Figure 5 represents a side view, with the inserted tool apt to lever to take off the protection from the locked seat thereof;
• - Figure 6 represents a front view of step-like coupling;
• Figure 7 represents a top view of the protection of figure 3.
• figure 1 shows schematically a racing suit 3, whereon, under the knee, two protection members according to the invention, designated with 10 in generic terms, are present.
• the protection 10 comprises a protection body 5, destined to wear and replacement, mounted on a base 4, destined to the firm fastening on the racing suit, for example by means of sewing.
• the protection body will be manufactured with a material, advantageously plastic, having proper and wished capacities of resistance to wear and slide.
• the base will be manufactured with a material (for example plastic material) with proper stiffness, as it will be clearer hereinafter.
• the body 5 is constrained to the base 4 by means of a coupling sliding in the base plane (that is in a direction substantially parallel to the surface of the racing suit whereon the protection is fastened).
• the sliding coupling is implemented with a drawer-like engagement with an undersquare 7, advantageously extended for half perimeter of the protection member and "omega"-like or horseshoe-like shaped, as it can be well seen in sketches in figure 3 and in figure 6 wherein the coupling sides 5, 6, of the base and of the protection body respectively, are shown.
• the undersquare 7 may be implemented with various shapes, provided that they are suitable to resist to the traction forces usually addressed to the sliding direction and which unload on the protection upon use. As it can be well seen in figures 3, 4 and 5, the undersquare may advantageously be swallow-tailed shaped or, in an alternative embodiment shown in figure 6, step-like shaped.
• the sliding coupling comprises a bayonet-like attachment advantageously formed by a plurality of undersquare-like, or mushroom-like pins, projecting from the inner surface of the protection body to engage into corresponding slot-like holes made in the base 4.
• the sliding coupling may be implemented, in order to avoid sliding and unwished separation of the protection body from the base, movable means to lock the sliding, in generic terms designated with 9, are also provided.
• the sliding lock may implemented so as to act in one direction only in case the extraction possibility is monodirectional, as the case of the couplings shown in the figures. i this case, as it can be well seen in the figures, it has resulted advantageous to provide the locking means with a tooth, or projection 8, projecting from the upper surface of the base 4 to interfere with the head of the protection body in the extraction direction.
• the disengagement or engagement
• To ease deformation inviting indentations 10 are present, made in the base and in the protection body to define each portion of an open seat between projection and edge of the protection body.
• sizes, proportions and fastening means may vary according to specific requirements.
• the sliding coupling means may be exchanged in place on the base and protection body.
• the mushroom-like engagements may project from the base to engage proper slots in the protection body.

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  • 2000-09-12 IT IT2000RM000496A patent/IT1317907B1/it active
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