Outdoor jacket
OwnerThomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Thomas R. Routhinventors
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Abstract
In one aspect, the invention provides a hood drawstring arrangement that may be adapted to allow a single adjustment to exert tension along the vertical sides of the front face opening of the hood, which will tend to vertically compress the hood, as well as simultaneously exerting a circumferential tensioning of the top portion of the hood.
Claims10
A hood having a head covering and a face opening, the hood comprising an adjustable drawstring arrangement providing for simultaneous circumferential tensioning of the head covering and vertical temporal tensioning of the face opening, wherein the drawstring arrangement comprises one or more cranial cord segments encircling the head covering connected to left and right temporal cord segments on each lateral side of the face opening, so that:
- (a) manual tensioning of the cranial cord segment acts to tension the temporal cord segments;
- or, (b) manual tensioning of either the left or right temporal cord segment acts to tension a cranial cord segment.
A jacket adapted to cover a person's chest having a collar adapted to cover a persons neck, wherein a front opening of the jacket is closable with a curved slide fastener is disposed vertically along the anterior midline of the jacket and the slide fastener curves laterally so that the slide fastener is offset from the anterior midline of the collar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.