Torso garment
AssigneeDye Precision, Inc.
InventorBryon Benini
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Abstract
A torso-covering garment for playing paintball having gripping areas to enable the user to grippably contact a gripping area of the garment with the butt stock of the gun. Each gripping area comprises a pliant, non-cushioning substrate. Common embodiments of the garment are shirts, jerseys, jackets, and vests. A method of playing paintball which comprises wearing the garment of the invention, and a method of fabricating the garment.
Claims20
A garment for stabilizing the curved rear portion of the air system tank of a paintball marker to a wearer's torso, the garment being sized to cover at least a portion of the wearer's torso and comprising flexible fabric having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface being configured to contact with the body of the wearer, the outer surface containing at least two gripping regions substantially located within the torso region of the garment, each of the at least two gripping regions comprising a plurality of non-cushioning, spaced apart, raised tacky protrusions for the purpose of gripping engagement between the curved rear portion of the air system tank and the gripping region.
A garment for stabilizing the curved rear portion of the air system tank of a paintball marker to a wearer's torso, the garment being sized to cover at least a portion of the wearer's torso and comprising flexible fabric having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface being configured to contact the body of the wearer, the outer surface containing at least two gripping regions substantially located within the torso region of the garment, each of the at least two gripping regions comprising a plurality of non-cushioning, spaced apart, raised tacky protrusions for the purpose of gripping engagement between the curved rear portion of the air system tank and each of the gripping regions.
A method of making a garment for stabilizing the curved rear portion of the air system tank of a paintball marker to the torso of a wearer of the garment, the method comprising:
- providing a flexible fabric in the shape of an article configured to cover at least a portion of the wearer's torso;
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- forming at least two gripping regions on the outer side of the fabric, each of the at least two gripping regions comprising a plurality of non-cushioning, spaced apart, raised tacky protrusions for the purpose of gripping engagement between the curved rear portion of the air system tank and the gripping region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.