Snake leggings
OwnerLarry A. McLaneinventor
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Abstract
A legging, for being worn by a person for protection against snake bites as well as bites from other objectionable animals; the leggings including a double mesh, close woven stainless steel, and having a vertical slit along a rear side so as to allow fitting a leg thereinto, the vertical slit being closable by interconnecting strips of resilient hook and loops fastening and straps, the knee portion of the legging having a pad for comfort, and the underside of the legging being open, and including sidewardly crossing straps for passing under a shoe or boot, the forward end of the legging having a rigid, nonpliable toe cap.
Claims1
A snake legging, comprising in combination, a main body of double layer, close woven, stainless steel mesh, an upper edge of said legging being crimped and embossed, and enclosed within a heavy padding, a vertical side of said legging being split, forming adjacent vertical edgings which are closeable by engaging strips of resilient hooks and loops along each vertical edge and by a plurality of straps, a forward end of a foot portion of said legging comprising a toe cap made of rigid, non-pliable material, an underside of said foot portion being left open and including a plurality of crossing straps between opposite sides of said legging, and which straps extend under a shoe or boot of a wearer, said legging including means for higher or lower protection of a leg, as needed, and comprising said main body being made of an upper and a lower section, which telescopically interfit, and which are securable in selected, extended position by means of vertically interconnecting straps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.