Insect barrier garment
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorBernhard Zeiler
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Abstract
Lower body, upper body, and hood garments formed of a textile that inhibit the ability of insects or small animals to bite or sting the wearer. The textile of the garments have a base fabric and a cover fabric separated by a spacer layer. The base fabric is open to facilitate breathability. The cover fabric is sufficiently closed to inhibit insects, spiders, or other small animals from passing through the cover fabric, and sufficiently open so as not to inhibit the breathability of the textile. The spacer layer separates the base fabric from the cover fabric with sufficient distance to inhibit insects, spiders, or other small animals from probing through the textile to reach the wearer.
Claims36
A barrier garment for a wearer, said garment having at least a portion comprising a textile including:
- a base fabric having a high air permeability and an inner surface disposed toward the wearer, a cover fabric having air permeability with sufficient tightness to be a barrier to insects and an outer surface disposed away from the wearer, and a spacer layer disposed between the base fabric and the cover fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.