Outdoors sports apparel
OwnerJerome L. Blackwellinventor
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Abstract
Outdoors sports apparel for protecting the body while participating in winter sports. In particular, a pant including pads for protecting the buttocks and hips from falls incurred while snowboarding. To attain buttock protection, a protective pad arranged from the lower edge of the pant waist across the buttocks. To attain hip protection, said protective pad extending laterally across the hip. In an embodiment, the protective pad comprised of an elastic material. In an embodiment, the pant further comprises a pair of pads, each arranged from the upper edge of the knee to below the knee.
Claims15
Sports pants for protecting the body while snowboarding comprising:
- a pair of protective pads having opposing sides formed from an elastic material, each pad extending from the lower edge of the waist across one of the buttocks;
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- a plurality of posterior, openable and reclosable pockets on the exterior surface of the pants, adapted, at the will of the wearer, to retain the protective pads therein, wherein the pockets hold one side of the pads in its entirety against the body and wherein the pants have a layered construction, wherein the pants comprise an inner layer, an insulating layer, and an outer layer, wherein the insulating layer is arranged between the outer layer and the inner layer.
In a trouser-like article of clothing formed of a material which is elastically stretchable both in the longitudinal and transverse directions, the provision of a posterior, openable and reclosable pocket on the exterior surface of the trouser, adapted, at the will of the wearer, to retain a buttock protector pad having opposing sides therein, wherein the pocket holds an entire portion of one side of the buttock protector pad against a wearer's body and wherein the trouser comprises an inner layer, an insulating layer, and an outer layer, wherein the insulating layer is arranged between the outer layer and the inner layer.
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