US 6,543,054 B2Granted

Bodily-injury protective clothing and accessories for outdoors and in a vehicle

OwnerEdwin Zenith Gabrielinventor

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Abstract

Injury protective clothing for children and the elderly would help protect them from injury of the neck, breast area, upper and lower back, knees and ankles. The clothing consists of inflated and energy-absorption annular, moisture-proof, non-inflammable rip-resistant closures placed around injury-susceptible areas of the body. The protective clothing could be decorative with stars, stripes, flowers, birds, butterflies, animals, rings, diamond shapes, hearts and whatever else would be appealing to children and the elderly. Persons of all ages could wear the protective gear, but this application targets those most vulnerable to injury,—children because of their being so active, climbing trees, fences, ladders, and jumping off high places, and the elderly. Children take chances more than adults would. Some enclosures are 360° circular and others have elastic bands to allow the enclosure to stretch more easily to clothe oneself with the garment.

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Decorative bodily injury protective protection enclosures for a person when playing outdoors or sitting in a vehicle, providing protection for the person's body portions, including neck, hips and knees, the injury-vulnerable portions of a person's body, wherein lightweight air-inflatable donut-shaped enclosures being applied to said neck, said hips and said knees, said inflatable donut-shaped enclosures containing energy-absorbing material and having stretchable elastic tie portions to assist in putting on and retaining said donut-shaped enclosures on said body;

and a pleasing decoration being applied to the surface of said enclosures;
the neck and knee donut-shaped enclosures being smaller in circumference than the enclosures applied to said hips;
said enclosures being moisture resistance, preventing moisture from passing through the material of said enclosures, and wherein said vehicle having elongated, inflated enclosures in vulnerable, bodily-injury locations within said vehicle, including on surfaces in front of passengers' knees and on top of a steering wheel.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.