Protective garment with separate inner and outer shells
AssigneeSport Maska Inc.
InventorsLeif Skottheim, Alain Castonguay, Pierre Paiment
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Abstract
A protective garment comprising a form-fitting, stretchable inner garment for covering part of a body of a wearer, the inner garment including a plurality of cushioning pads attached thereto with portions of the inner garment being free of the cushioning pads, and an outer shell partially overlying the inner garment, the outer shell including a plurality of flexibly interconnected protective pads cooperating with the cushioning pads to protect at least a major part of the portion of the body, the protective pads being more rigid that the cushioning pads, and the outer shell being separable from the inner garment.
Claims18
A protective garment comprising:
- a form-fitting, stretchable inner garment for covering part of a body of a wearer, the inner garment including a plurality of cushioning pads attached thereto with a substantial portion of the inner garment being free of the cushioning pads;
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- an outer shell partially overlying the inner garment with at least some of the cushioning pads being at least partially left uncovered by the outer shell, the outer shell overlying at least part of the portion of the inner garment free of the cushioning pads, the outer shell including a plurality of protective pads flexibly interconnected independently of the inner garment and cooperating with the cushioning pads to protect at least a major part of the portion of the body, the protective pads each including a rigid layer more rigid than all the cushioning pads of the inner garment, at least some of the protective pads including an inner layer of cushioning material more flexible than the rigid layer and having a thickness less than that of the cushioning pads, and the outer shell being separable from the inner garment.
A protective upper body garment comprising:
- an inner garment made of stretchable material and including cushioning pads attached to the stretchable material and provided on only distinct zones of the inner garment with a remainder of the inner garment being free of the cushioning pads, at least one of the distinct zones having a different shape from that of at least one other of the distinct zones, the cushioning pads including rib cushioning pads at least substantially covering one of the zones extending from a front to a rear and over a side of the inner garment and configured to overlay ribs of the wearer;
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- an outer garment separate from the inner garment and retained thereover with at least a portion of the rib cushioning pads being left uncovered by the outer garment, the outer garment having a plurality of protective pads including at least rigid shoulder caps flexibly interconnected to one another independently of the inner garment, the shoulder caps being positioned for overlying shoulders of the wearer, the plurality of protective pads each including a rigid layer more rigid than all the cushioning pads of the inner garment, at least some of the protective pads including an inner layer of cushioning material more flexible than the rigid layer and having a thickness less than that of the cushioning pads.
A protective garment comprising:
- an inner stretchable garment including irregularly spaced apart cushioning pads attached to the garment and configured to overlay at least partially ribs of a wearer, the inner garment having a substantial portion thereof free of the cushioning pads;
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- an outer garment including protective shells configured to overlay at least partially shoulders, an abdomen, and a back of the wearer, the protective shells being flexibly interconnected independently of the inner garment, the outer garment being removably retained over the inner garment with at least part of the cushioning pads configured to at least partially overlay the ribs of the wearer being left uncovered by the outer garment, the plurality of protective shells each including a rigid layer more rigid than all the cushioning pads of the inner garment, at least some of the protective shells including an inner layer of cushioning material more flexible than the rigid layer and having a thickness less than that of the cushioning pads.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.