CYCLIST'S HEATED SUIT

• US 3,858,028 A
• Filed: 04/11/1974
• Issued: 12/31/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John F. Kerr
• Original Assignee: John F. Kerr
• Inventors: Kerr, John F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Albritton, C. L
• Application Number:
  US05/460,026
• Time in Patent Office: 264 Days
• Field of Search: 219/211,527-529 128/379 2/2.1A
• US Class Current: 219/211
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/0051 Heated garments heated divers' suits B63C11/28
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 33/00 Arrangements for warming riders specially adapted for cycles
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/014 Heaters using resistive wires or cables not provided for in H05B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/036 Heaters specially adapted for garment heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/342 heaters used in textiles

Abstract

An electrically heated suit system is modular to enable selective wearing of different portions of the suit, without impairment of the heating function of the worn sections.

Claims

1. In heated clothing, the combination comprising a. multiple clothing sections each adapted to cover a different portion of a human body, and snap fastener means releasably fastening certain of said sections together in series sequence permitting sequential removal thereof, b. electrical wires carried by each section and including only two electrically parallel bus wires and heater wires connected thereacross, c. separable electrical connections between the bus wires of adjacent clothing sections, d. input electrical connections to the parallel bus wires of at least one of said clothing sections, and e. the bus Wires carried by successive of said certain sections being connected in electrical series by said separable electrical connections each of which includes a male part and a female part respectively located further from and closer to said input electrical connections, said parts openly accessible outwardly of said clothing sections for plugging and unplugging without disturbing the snap fasteners, f. said certain clothing sections including a jacket, a hood, and a face mask.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said certain clothing sections include gloves.

3. The combination of claim 2 wherein said certain clothing sections include trousers and slippers.

4. The combination of claim 1 wherein said parts are carried on slack portions of said bus wires that are spaced openly outwardly of the clothing sections.