Sports pant with outer shell and sock attachment system
AssigneeSport Maska Inc.
InventorsKeith Leach, Sylvie Bedard
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Abstract
A garment including a pant having at least one attachment member integral with each leg portion proximal the open end thereof and forming one half of a detachable attachment system. A kit further includes a pair of socks each having at least one attachment member extending therefrom, the attachment members of the socks and pants being complementary for forming a detachable connection. Also, a garment including an inner pant having an inner torso portion, two inner leg portions, and at least one protective pad, and an outer pant retainable around the inner pant and having an outer torso portion covering the inner torso portion, two tubular outer leg portions enclosing the inner leg portions, the outer pant being independent from the inner pant.
Claims22
A garment comprising:
- a pant having a torso portion adapted to cover a lower torso of a wearer, two tubular leg portions extending from the torso portion in communication therewith to cover upper legs of the wearer, the leg portions each having an open end opposed from the torso portion, means for retaining the pant in place around the torso, at least one of hip protective pads, a lower back protective pad and thigh protective pads, and at least one attachment member integral with each of the leg portions proximal the open end thereof and forming one half of a detachable attachment system;
- an outer shell having a shell torso portion covering the torso portion of the pant, two tubular shell leg portions extending from the shell torso portion in communication therewith to cover the leg portions of the pant, the pant and the outer shell having substantially the same length, the shell leg portions each having one open end opposed from the shell torso portion, means for retaining the outer shell in place around the pant, and the outer shell being independent from the pant along at least a region of each shell leg portion defined from the open end thereof and covering the at least one attachment member such as to provide access to the at least one attachment member;
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- a pair of socks, each of the socks having at least one additional attachment member attached thereto forming the other half of the detachable attachment system, each additional attachment member of each sock being detachably connected to one of the at least one attachment member of a corresponding one of the leg portions.
A kit comprising:
- a pair of socks, each of the socks comprising at least one first attachment member extending from an upper portion thereof;
- an inner pant having a torso portion, two tubular leg portions extending from the torso portion in communication therewith and means for retaining the inner pant in place around a body of a wearer, at least one of the torso portion and leg portion including at least one protective pad, the leg portions each having an open end opposed from the torso portion, each of the leg portions including at least one second attachment member for each first attachment member of a corresponding one of the socks, the second attachment member being integral with the leg portion proximal the open end and being complementary to the corresponding first attachment member for forming a detachable connection;
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- an outer pant having an outer torso portion to cover the torso portion of the inner pant, two tubular outer leg portions extending from the outer torso portion in communication therewith to cover the leg portions of the inner pant, the inner and outer pant having substantially the same length, and means for retaining the outer pant in place around the inner pant, the outer leg portions each having an open end opposed from the outer torso portion, the outer pant being independent from the inner pant along at least a region of each outer leg portion defined from the open end thereof and covering the at least one second attachment member such as to provide access to the at least one second attachment member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.