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Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsRino A. Feduzi, Robert L. Jensen, Jeanine M. Shusta
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The disclosure describes vapor permeable retroreflective material for use on protective garments. The material may be formed in a non-continuous pattern that provides a high-level of retroreflective brightness, yet also provides adequate permeability to prevent exposure to trapped thermal energy and heated moisture. The non-continuous retroreflective pattern may include retroreflective regions and non-retroreflective regions arranged such that thermal decay through the protective garment is not substantially decreased in the regions corresponding to the retroreflective material. Rather, vapor permeation and thermal decay through the garment may be substantially the same as if the retroreflective material was not present.
A garment comprising a protective outer layer having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion comprises a patch attached to the protective outer layer, wherein the patch is formed with a non-continuous retroreflective pattern of retroreflective material defining retroreflective regions and non-retroreflective regions, and further wherein the vapor permeability through the first portion of the protective outer layer is substantially equal to the vapor permeability through the second portion.
An article comprising:
A garment comprising:
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