WEATHERGUARD JERSEY

• US 3,663,797 A
• Filed: 08/14/1970
• Issued: 05/16/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Roscoe C. Marsh
• Original Assignee: Roscoe C. Marsh
• Inventors: Marsh, Roscoe C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truhe, J. V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peterson, Gale R.
• Application Number:
  US05/063,780
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 219/211-212,527,528,529,549 128/1.5,379,402,381
• US Class Current: 219/211
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/003 using serpentine layout
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/016 Heaters using particular connecting means
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/036 Heaters specially adapted for garment heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/342 heaters used in textiles

Abstract

A garment usable as an outer jersey having pockets with heating elements embedded therein for maintaining the hands of the wearer sufficiently warm.

Claims

1. A heated pocket football jersey having at least one pocket attached thereto, said pocket comprising a patch of material having a pair of spaced walls of insulating material between which is provided a soft fabric containing a series of heating elements embedded therein, said patch of material secured on three sides to said jersey electrically conducting lead wire means interconnecting said heating elements from said pocket to an electrical power source, said power source being disposed within an outwardly open socket provided on a football pad of the wearer, said open socket being closed by a portion of the jersey said wire means extending through an opening formed in the jersey directly behind said pocket, and said wire means comprising a connector terminal located near said opening and an elongated wire cable electrically connected at one end to said terminal and at its other end to said power source.

2. The garment according to claim 1 wherein a pair of said pockets is provided for said jersey.