Safety vest
AssigneeDorothy Gloria Rupert
InventorsDorothy G. Rupert, Frieda A. Stobberingh
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Abstract
A safety vest to be worn by a person for use in holding a person in a seat and which includes a pair of shoulder straps interconnected by a pair of waist straps, a closure device at the back of the vest and fastener receiving elements on the shoulder straps and one of the waist straps to which may be attached fastening devices associated with the seat for releasably fastening a person wearing the vest to the seat.
Claims12
A safety vest for releasably holding a person in a seat, which comprises a pair of shoulder straps extending over the shoulders down the front and back of the person to about waist level, a waist strap at about waist level traversing around the waist crossing the shoulder straps at the front of the person and terminating at the shoulder straps at the back of the person, means fastening said waist strap to the shoulder straps at the crossings and at the back of the person, said shoulder straps being spaced apart at the front of the person and converging over the shoulders of the person and into edge-to-edge relation at the back of the person, slide fastener closure means at the back of the person along upright adjacent edges of said shoulder straps for closing the vest in wearing position on the person, and means at the upper portions of the shoulder straps and the side portions of the waist strap adapted to receive anchoring elements associated with the seat to hold the person in the seat.
A safety vest adapted to be worn on the upper torso of a person for releasably holding a person in a seat, which comprises a pair of vertically disposed straps fitting over the shoulders, over the chest and the back of the person, said vertical straps being spaced apart over the chest and converging over the shoulders of the person and into edge-to-edge relation at the back of the person, a pair of horizontally disposed straps interconnected with the vertically disposed straps, said horizontally disposed straps crossing said vertically disposed straps at the front of the vest and terminating at the vertically disposed straps at the back of the vest, a closure means at the back of the vest between the edges of said vertically disposed straps for opening and closing the vest during removal of the vest from and application to a person, and fastening means at the upper portions of the vertically disposed straps and the side portions of one of the horizontally disposed straps adapted to receive fastening elements associated with the seat to fasten the vest with a person to the seat.
A safety vest for holding a person in a seat comprising,
- a pair of shoulder straps, a waist strap, a chest strap, and a slide fastener closure means,
- said shoulder straps extending across the shoulders down to the waist along the front and back of the person and being spaced apart at the front of the person and converging over the shoulders of the person and into edge-to-edge relation at the back of the person,
- said waist and chest straps crossing said shoulder straps at the front and being fastened at the crossings and extending around the sides of the person to the shoulder straps at the back and being fastened thereto,
- said closure means being disposed at the back of the person connecting the upright edges of the shoulder straps together,
- and connection means on the shoulder straps and the waist strap adapted to be connected to fixed means for the seat to hold a person wearing the vest to the seat.
In combination with a seat having a seat portion and a back portion, a safety vest to be worn by a person and fastening means for the seat to releasably connect the vest with a person to the seat,
- said safety vest including a pair of shoulder straps extending over the shoulders down the front and back of the person to about waist level, a waist strap at about waist level traversing the waist crossing the shoulder straps at the front of the person and terminating at the shoulder straps at the back of the person, means fastening said waist strap to the shoulder straps at the crossings and at the back of the person, a chest strap paralleling the waist strap at about chest level traversing the chest crossing the shoulder straps at the front of the person and terminating at the shoulder straps at the back of the person, means fastening said chest strap to the shoulder straps at the crossings and at the back of the person, said shoulder straps being spaced apart at the front of the person and converging over the shoulders of the person and into edge-to-edge relation at the back of the person, slide fastener closure means at the back of the person along the upright adjacent edges of said shoulder straps for closing the vest in wearing position on the person, and connecting means secured at the upper portions of the shoulder straps and the side portions of the waist strap for connection to the fastening means, and
- said fastening means including means at the seat portion for connection to the connecting means at the waist strap, and means at the upper part of the back portion for connection to the connecting means at the shoulder straps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.