Protective garment for improved welding protection

Abstract

A protective garment for providing improved safety and customization of personal protective equipment (PPE), and in particular, for welding protection from wire-sticks from exposed welding wires during welding. The protective garment includes a heat conducting composite made of one or more layers of a heat conducting material and one or more layers of a binder. The one or more heat conducting material layers may be a carbon fiber layer, such as a woven carbon-fiber layer, and the one or more binders may be an elastomeric binder, such as a polymer. As such, the heat conducting composite may be a carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) in which the elastomeric binder is used to hold the woven fibers and/or layers together. The heat conducting composite material may be used to form PPE, it may be formed into guards for use over PPE, or as an insert for use under PPE.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.