Firefighter's coat with liner in tail pocket
AssigneeMorning Pride Manufacturing, L.L.C.
InventorsWilliam L. Grilliot, Mary I. Grilliot, Patricia K. Waters
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Abstract
A firefighter's coat including an outer shell and a liner. The outer shell has an inner surface, an outer surface, a front opening with a closure, and a downwardly extending rear tail. The liner has an outer surface facing the inner surface of the shell providing a barrier against the environment. The liner outer surface has a bottom edge loose from the outer shell inner surface to facilitate air circulation for drying when the coat is not in use, and a pocket is defined along the bottom of the outer shell tail and adapted to receive the rear of the liner bottom edge when the coat is in use. A releasable fastener is adapted to releasably secure the liner in the pocket.
Claims14
A firefighter's coat usable in extreme environments, comprising:
- an outer shell having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a bottom hem with sides and a rear tail;
- a liner having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the shell providing a barrier against the environment, said liner outer surface having a bottom edge,
- the liner bottom edge having a full circumferential length to extend around a wearer and a discrete portion extending along the liner bottom edge having a first length less than the full circumferential length at the rear tail of the outer shell;
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- a pocket defined along the bottom of the outer shell tail and having spaced sides, said pocket to receive only the first length of said liner bottom edge so that a space is defined, along the bottom edge spaced from the pocket, between the bottom hem of the outer shell and liner bottom edge through which air can flow vertically to and/or from between the outer shell and liner to facilitate drying of the coat, the pocket secured by a bottom fastener at a bottom edge of the pocket and at least one fastener on each of the spaced sides of the pocket spaced from the bottom fastener that remain fastened at all times.
A firefighter's coat usable in extreme environments, comprising:
- an outer shell having an inner surface, an outer surface, a front and rear, a front opening with a closure, and a downwardly extending rear tail;
- a liner having a front and rear and an outer surface facing the inner surface of the shell providing a barrier against the environment, said liner having a bottom edge;
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- a pocket defined along the bottom of the outer shell tail and having spaced sides, said pocket adapted to receive the liner bottom edge at the rear of the outer shell and not at the front of the outer shell so that a space is defined along a portion of the bottom edge spaced from the pocket between the liner and the outer shell at the bottom edge through which air can flow vertically to and/or from between the outer shell and liner to facilitate drying of the coat, the pocket secured by a bottom fastener at a bottom edge of the pocket and at least one fastener on each of the spaced sides of the pocket spaced from the bottom fastener that remain fastened at all times.
A firefighter's coat usable in extreme environments, comprising:
- an outer shell having an inner surface, an outer surface, a front opening with a closure, and a bottom hem with a rear tail;
- a liner having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the shell providing a barrier against the environment, said liner outer surface having a bottom edge with a front and rear;
- an inner layer secured along a portion of the bottom edge of the shell tail and overlapping the shell tail for a selected distance above the tail bottom edge to define a pocket with spaced sides therebetween, wherein said rear of said liner bottom edge and not the front of the liner bottom edge is adapted to be received in said pocket between the shell and the inner layer so that a space is defined along the bottom edge spaced from the pocket between the bottom hem of the outer shell and liner bottom edge through which air can flow vertically to and/or from between the outer shell and liner to facilitate drying of the coat;
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- a releasable fastener adapted to releasably secure said liner to said inner layer, the pocket secured by a bottom fastener at a bottom edge of the pocket and at least one fastener on each of the spaced sides of the pocket spaced from the bottom fastener that remain fastened at all times.
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