Outdoor jacket
AssigneeArc'teryx Equipment Inc.
InventorsThomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Thomas R. Routh
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Abstract
In one aspect, the invention provides a hood drawstring arrangement that may be adapted to allow a single adjustment to exert tension along the vertical sides of the front face opening of the hood, which will tend to vertically compress the hood, as well as simultaneously exerting a circumferential tensioning of the top portion of the hood.
Claims6
A hood having a head covering and a face opening, the hood comprising an adjustable drawstring arrangement providing for simultaneous circumferential tensioning of the head covering to secure the hood to a wearer's head and vertical temporal tensioning of the face opening, wherein the drawstring arrangement comprises one or more cranial cord segments encircling the head covering and connected to a top portion of left and right temporal cord segments on each lateral side of the face opening, so that:
- (a) manual tensioning of the cranial cord segment acts to secure the hood to a wearer's head and to tension the temporal cord segments;
- or,
- (b) manual tensioning of either the left or right temporal cord segment acts to tension a cranial cord segment to secure the hood to a wearer's head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.