An all-weather, water-resistant, and ventilated coat having a torso cargo storage pocket, said coat comprising:
- a water-proof shell having a front panel and a back panel cooperatively providing a neck opening, and a pair of sleeves one for each of the wearer's arms;
- said front panel, back panel, and sleeves being formed of a water-proof fabric material;
- a generally vertically extending shell opening dividing said front panel into two parts and allowing ingress and egress from said garment;
- a ventilation structure of said coat including at said front panel:
- a flap portion of said front panel extending laterally across from a side thereof generally vertically beneath a respective sleeve and extending toward but short of said shell opening, said flap member having a top edge and a generally vertically extending side edge spaced from said shell opening;
- a vertically extending strip portion of said front panel extending laterally between said side edge of said flap portion and said shell opening, said strip portion having a respective vertically extending side edge;
- a vertically extending slide closure member securing said side edge of said flap portion to said respective side edge of said strip portion and defining a vertically extending closure line;
- said slide fastener when open allowing said side edges to gap open at said closure line to provide a vertically extending ventilation opening;
- an inner fabric wall underlying said flap portion, said inner fabric wall and said flap portion cooperatively forming a torso cargo storage pocket having an opening at said side edge, an inner closure member disposed inwardly of said storage pocket with respect to said side edge, said inner closure member when closed substantially closing said storage pocket at said side edge even though said slide closure member may be open to open said ventilation opening:
- a perforate air-permeable panel spanning said ventilation opening inwardly of said shell to control gaping of said side edges;
- a vertically extending sub-flap of water-proof fabric material carried by said flap portion adjacent to said side edge and extending over said slide closure member to both cover said closure line and to cooperate with said flap portion to define a vertically extending pocket, said flap portion and said sub-flap being sealingly secured together at a lower end of said pocket to close said pocket and to communicate said pocket outwardly of said shell;
- an additional vertically extending flap member outwardly carried by said strip portion between said respective side edge and said shell opening, said additional flap member in a first position extending toward said shell opening, in a second position said additional flap member extending away from said shell opening and being received into and extending in said pocket across said closure line;
- whereby said additional flap member cooperates with said flap member and sub-flap to form a labyrinth seal structure overlying said closure line, and said labyrinth seal structure communicates water entering therein vertically downward to the closed lower end of said pocket and then outwardly of said shell;
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- a ventilation opening defined in a sleeve of said shell, said ventilation opening having a pair of opposite sides gaping apart when open to allow ventilation air to pass, a slide closure member defining a closure line lengthwise of said ventilation opening for selectively opening and closing said ventilation opening, said shell including a pair of water-proof fabric layers of said sleeve both adjacent to and extending along one side of said ventilation opening and one overlying the other to cooperatively define an elongate sleeve pocket, said shell carrying a flexible water-proof sleeve flap member on said sleeve adjacent to and extending along the other side of said ventilation opening, in a first position said sleeve flap member extending into said sleeve pocket toward but not significantly across said closure line, in a second position said sleeve flap member extending across said closure line and deeply into said sleeve pocket to cooperate there with said pair of fabric layers to define a labyrinth seal structure overlying said closure line, whereby in said second position of said sleeve flap member said labyrinth seal structure substantially prevents wind-blown water from passing through said ventilation opening on said sleeve.