Conditioning garments
AssigneeSurvitec Group Limited
InventorsPaul Oliver, Peter C. Gordon
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Abstract
A conditioning garment has front and rear panels (11, 12) with a neck opening (13) between them. A manifold (17) extends along the lower edge of the front (11) panel and a manifold (24) extends along the lower edge of the rear panel (12). Tubes (27) extend between the manifolds (17, 24) and carry conditioned liquid over the torso of a wearer to heat/cool the torso. The tubes (27) are equally spaced and generally the same length to provide even heating/cooling. The garment (10) is easy to don and remove. The garment (10) can be modified by the addition of various chest compression devices, a neck support and a harness tensioning device. All these are designed to encounter increased +G-forces on the body of a wearer.
Claims22
A conditioning garment for covering a torso of a wearer comprising
- a front panel and a rear panel with a neck opening therebetween,
- each panel having a lower edge and
- one of the front and rear panels having an inlet manifold extending across the one of the panels in the region of the lower edge of the one of the panels, the inlet manifold including a plurality of supply ports spaced around the lower edge of the one of the panels, and
- the other of the front and rear panels having an outlet manifold extending across the other of the panels in the region of the lower edge of the other of the panels, the outlet manifold including a plurality of drain ports spaced around the lower edge of the other of the panels, and
- a plurality of tubes extending from the supply ports of the inlet manifold to the drain ports of the outlet manifold over the panels for the passage of fluid through the tubes between the manifolds,
- wherein each tube includes at least two straight portions, one straight portion extending from the inlet manifold to adjacent the neck opening and the other straight portion extending from the outlet manifold to adjacent the neck opening and
- wherein all the tubes are of substantially equal length, the tubes of the respective side of the neck opening being arranged parallel to one another as the tubes extend over the front and rear panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.