Penetration resistant garment
AssigneeWarwick Mills, Inc.
InventorsCharles A. Howland, Virginia Howland, Narain Schroeder
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Abstract
A penetration resistant garment that may be comfortably worn by a user while offering protection against injury from a penetrating object, such as a water jet for example, includes a plurality of light-weight, rigid, discrete penetration resistant sections (30) cooperating with and arranged relative to one another to provide a flexible garment (20). The sections (30) may be layered in an overlapping manner to provide substantially complete coverage extending over an area of desired coverage. Also, a length of the garment may be less than a sum of the lengths of the individual sections (30).
Claims97
A penetration resistant garment comprising:
- a plurality of penetration resistant panels cooperating with and arranged relative to one another to provide substantially complete coverage extending over an area of desired coverage;
- and
- at least one pivot pin joining together at least some adjacent panels.
A penetration resistant garment comprising:
- a plurality of penetration resistant panels, each having a length, cooperating with and arranged relative to one another such that a length of said garment is less than a sum of the lengths of said panels, with at least some of said panels cooperating with each other such that said length of said garment may be adjusted.
A penetration resistant garment comprising:
- a first panel;
- a second panel;
- a knee pad coupled between said first and said second panels, said knee pad being pivotally connected to said first panel about a first pivot axis and pivotally connected to said second panel about a second pivot axis, said first and second pivot axes being positioned through said knee pad at predetermined locations such that an effective center of rotation of said first panel, said second panel and said knee pad passes through a center of rotation of the knee of a wearer.
A method of donning at least a section of a penetration resistant garment on a wearer, the section having a knee section comprising a knee pad, a first panel pivotally connected to the knee pad and a second panel pivotally connected to the knee pad, the section further comprising a thigh section adapted to be adjustable relative to the first panel of the knee section, with said method comprising the steps of:
- first securing the knee section to the wearer;
- then,
- attaching the thigh section to the first panel of the knee section to obtain a desired length of the section of the penetration resistant garment.
A kit of parts for use in assembling at least a portion of a penetration resistant garment, with said kit comprising:
- at least one penetration resistant panel, with said panel being adapted to cooperate with and arranged relative to adjacent panels to provide substantially complete coverage extending over an area of desired coverage.
A penetration resistant garment comprising:
- a plurality of penetration resistant panels cooperating with and arranged relative to one another to provide substantially complete coverage extending over an area of desired coverage, wherein any of said panels forming said garment is replaceable.
A penetration resistant garment comprising:
- a plurality of penetration resistant panels cooperating with and arranged relative to one another to provide substantially complete coverage extending over an area of desired coverage, with each panel comprising a multi-layer structure having a first layer, a second layer and a third layer, the second layer having a penetration resistance that is less than the penetration resistance of the first layer and the third layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.