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US 4,688,269 AGranted
Protector for sportswear
AssigneeDescente Ltd.
InventorSeiichi Maeshima
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Abstract
In sportswear for use in a variety of sports games or competition such as skiing, riding, motorbiking and the like, this invention relates to a protector for sportswear which has the function of protecting a wearer's body as a result of being attached to a location which tends to collide with the obstacle.
Claims15
A protection system for use in combination with sportswear apparel, comprising:
- a section of said sportswear apparel upon which said protection system is to be employed;
- at least one shock-absorbing pad fixedly secured to the external surface of said section of said sportswear apparel for providing shock absorbing properties to a portion of the anatomy of the wearer of said apparel;
- at least one hard cover plate disposed externally of said at least one shock-absorbing pad so as to cover and protect said at least one shock-absorbing pad;
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- means for mounting said at least one hard cover plate upon said sportswear apparel such that said at least one hard cover plate is spatially separated from said at least one shock-absorbing pad whereby a floating shock-absorbing system is defined between said at least one hard cover plate and said least one shock-absorbing pad.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.