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US 10,244,804 B2Granted
Garment vent
AssigneeBerghaus Limited
InventorsJames Hodgson, Marian Barnes, Gary Martin
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Abstract
A garment having a vent which has an upper panel and a lower panel, wherein the upper panel has a lower end portion and the lower panel has an upper end portion, and the lower end portion of the upper panel overlaps the upper end portion of the lower panel to form an opening, wherein the vent further has a gutter extending into the opening to trap rain travelling through the opening.
Claims15
A garment comprising:
- a vent path extending from an outside of the garment to an interior of the garment,
- an upper outer panel having a lower end portion,
- a lower inner panel having an upper end portion,
- the lower end portion of the upper outer panel overlapping the upper end portion of the lower inner panel so as to form a vent opening between the lower end portion and the upper end portion,
- a gutter formed as a downward fold from one of the panels, the gutter extending from the fold into the vent opening,
- the vent opening being opened above the upper end portion of the lower inner panel,
- an access opening from the vent opening into the interior of the garment, and
- wherein the vent path is unobstructed from the outside of the garment, through the vent opening, around the gutter and through the entire access opening into the interior of the garment, wherein the upper outer panel and the lower inner panel are operatively engaged with each other at opposite ends of the access opening, such that an air flow with a continuous width equal to an entire width of the access opening between the opposite ends of the access opening can pass through the access opening into the interior of the garment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.