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US 12,490,786 B2Granted
Chest protector
AssigneeWilson Sporting Goods Co.
InventorsMatthew J. Dierkes, Krista A. Lenss, Shaun P. Gilday
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Abstract
A chest protector may include shoulder portions to extend over shoulders of a sport participant wearing the chest protector, a padded chest portion to extend over the chest of a sport participant wearing the chest protector, a padded torso portion and a pliable shaper extending across the padded torso portion.
Claims15
A chest protector comprising:
- shoulder portions configured to extend over shoulders of a sport participant wearing the chest protector;
- a padded chest portion configured to extend over the chest of the sport participant wearing the chest protector;
- and a padded torso portion configured to extend over a torso of the sport participant wearing the chest protector;
- and a pliable shaper extending across the padded torso portion, the pliable shaper being manually bendable and configured such that once in a selected shape, is sufficiently stiff so as to retain the selected shape;
- a resiliently compressible layer covering the pliable shaper;
- a sleeve receiving the pliable shaper and the resiliently compressible layer,
- wherein the shoulder portions extend rearward from the padded chest portion, wherein the padded torso portion comprises a padded region having an outer forward-facing surface having a channel projecting rearward from the forward-facing surface and wherein the pliable shaper is recessed from the outer forward-facing surface within the channel, and wherein the padded region comprises a first pad and a second pad distinct and separate from the first pad and wherein the sleeve extends between the first pad and the second pad.
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A chest protector comprising:
- shoulder portions configured to extend over shoulders of a sport participant wearing the chest protector;
- a padded chest portion configured to extend over the chest of the sport participant wearing the chest protector;
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- a padded torso portion configured to extend over a torso of the sport participant wearing the chest protector;
- a pliable shaper extending across the padded torso portion, the pliable shaper being manually bendable and configured such that once in a selected shape, is sufficiently stiff so as to retain the selected shape;
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- a strap configured to wrap about the torso of the sport participant wearing the chest protector, the strap being connected to opposite transverse sides of the padded torso portion at opposite side locations above the pliable shaper and longitudinally between the padded chest portion and the pliable shaper, the pliable shaper transversely extending across the padded torso portion,
- wherein the shoulder portions extend rearward from the padded chest portion, wherein the padded torso portion comprises a padded region having an outer forward-facing surface having a channel projecting rearward from the forward-facing surface and wherein the pliable shaper is recessed from the outer forward-facing surface within the channel, and wherein the pliable shaper continuously extends, without interruption, from proximate a first side edge of the padded torso portion to a second side edge of the padded torso portion, opposite the first side edge, across a transverse midpoint of the padded torso portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.