Reduced-stress vapor-sorptive garments

Reduced-stress vapor-sorbing garment having as one component sheet material which comprises first and second permeable support fabrics, and attached between the permeable support fabrics, a fibrous web which exhibits an insulation value of less than 0.4 clo and which comprises a coherent mass less than 2 millimeters in thickness of melt-blown organic polymeric fibers containing activated carbon particles uniformly dispersed in the mass of fibers in an amount of at least 50 grams per square meter area of the sheet material and in an amount accounting for at least about 50 volume-percent of the fibrous web.

Vapor-sorbing particle-containing sheet material adapted for use in a reduced-stress vapor-sorbing garment, said sheet material comprising a permeable support fabric having a grab strength of at least 500 kilograms/centimeter of thickness and, attached to the permeable support fabric, a fibrous web which exhibits an insulation value of less than about 0.4 clo and which comprises a coherent mass of melt-blown organic polymeric fibers and vapor-sorptive particles uniformly dispersed in the mass of fibers in an amount of at least 15 grams per square meter of the sheet material.

Vapor-sorbing particle-containing sheet material adapted for use in a reduced-stress vapor-sorbing garment, said sheet material comprising first and second permeable support fabrics at least one of which has a grab strength of at least 500 kilograms/centimeter of thickness and, attached to the permeable support fabric, a fibrous web which exhibits an insulation value of less than about 0.2 clo and which comprises a coherent mass of melt-blown organic polymeric fibers and vapor-sorptive particles uniformly dispersed in the mass of fibers in an amount of at least 50 grams per square meter of the sheet material and in an amount accounting for at least 50 volume-percent of the fibrous web.