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US 5,105,473 AGranted
Sports outfit having elastic fabric pockets for insertable resilient padding
AssigneeRukka Luhta Oy
InventorAntti Valtakari
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Abstract
An athletic garment for use in different sports includes trousers and/or a coat which have outer pad pockets attached thereto, the pad pockets including hook and loop type closure tapes and being made of an elastic material so that pads for the protection of the wearer can be inserted into and withdrawn from the respective pad pockets.
Claims8
An athletic garment for use by a person engaged in sports activities, said athletic garment comprising:
- a body material formed as an article of clothing which is elastic and permeable to moisture,
- a piece of pocket material having an edge with a first portion and a second portion, and wherein said pocket material is only attached along said first portion of said edge to said body material to provide a pocket on an outer side of said body material where impacts can be expected, and wherein said second edge portion is unattached and provides an opening into said pocket, said pocket material being elastic,
- a fastening means for closing said opening to said pocket, and
- a removeable pad which is insertable through said opening and into said pocket, said removeable pad being shaped so as to fill said pocket and cause said pocket material to expand while said body material does not stretch, said pocket material being expandable to accomodate removeable pads of differing thicknesses.
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