Load-bearing vest overlay jacket
AssigneeGranite5 LLC
InventorCraig Johnson
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Abstract
A load-bearing vest overlay jacket (“overlay jacket”) is an overgarment configured to be joined with and fastened to a load-bearing vest (“tactical vest”) so that an open front area exists between the front left and front right of the overlay jacket, permitting a user's access to equipment on the tactical vest. Thus, the overlay jacket may provide uniform, comfortable body temperatures in colder weather, to include arm warmth and upper torso warmth, as a function of either optionally-insulated sleeve and/or torso regions of the overlay jacket, or of torso warmth provided by the tactical vest underlying the overlay jacket.
Claims22
A tactical vest overlay jacket comprising:
- a back, a left front, a right front, and a pair of sleeves, joined into an overgarment configured to be joined with a tactical vest, wherein the right front and the left front are disjoint forming an open front area and wherein a front portion of the tactical vest occupies the open front area independent of the left front and the right front, and wherein the back, the left front, and right front are each dimensioned to be circumferentially greater than the tactical vest;
- a thermal protection layer incorporated into each of the pair of sleeves;
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- one or more fasteners configured to fasten the left front and the right front, respectively, to a left lower portion and a right lower portion of the tactical vest proximate of the open front area.
A method for manufacturing a tactical vest overlay jacket, the method comprising:
- joining a back, a left front, a right front, and a pair of sleeves, into an overlay jacket wherein the overlay jacket is configured to join with a tactical vest and wherein the right front and the left front are disjoint creating an open front area and wherein a front portion of the tactical vest occupies the open front area independent of the left front and the right front;
- dimensioning the back, the left front, and right front to be circumferentially greater than the tactical vest;;
- adding a thermal protection layer to each of the pair of sleeves;
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- incorporating one or more fasteners to each the left front and the right front, the one or more fasteners configured to fasten the left front and the right front, respectively, to a left lower portion and a right lower portion of the tactical vest proximate of the open front area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.