Athletic padded garment
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1. Protective sports garment comprising:
- a plurality of padded generally flat rings designed to extend about the wearer adjacent the waist area,the length dimension of said rings extending about the waist and the width dimension being approximately parallel to the wearers body, when worn,each of said padded rings being attached to adjacent extents at attachment locations at the front and back of the garment,arranged in overlapping relationship in the upright attitude of the wearer,adjacent ones of said rings being connected to allow relative movement therebetween in the extents between the front and the back of the garment.
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Abstract
A protective sports garment has a plurality of flat rings designed to extend about the wearer adjacent the waist area. The rings are mounted to partially overlap in any normal attitude of the athlete and the overlap may then alter to conform to the athletes movements.
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1. Protective sports garment comprising:
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a plurality of padded generally flat rings designed to extend about the wearer adjacent the waist area, the length dimension of said rings extending about the waist and the width dimension being approximately parallel to the wearers body, when worn, each of said padded rings being attached to adjacent extents at attachment locations at the front and back of the garment, arranged in overlapping relationship in the upright attitude of the wearer, adjacent ones of said rings being connected to allow relative movement therebetween in the extents between the front and the back of the garment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. Protective garment comprising a plurality of pairs of padded semi-rings
said semi-rings each being generally flat relatively thin members arranged to have their long dimension extending about the body and their width dimension extending approximately parallel to the wearers body when worn, each semi-ring being attached to the other semi-rings at a front attachment location, each semi-ring being attached to the other semi-ring of the pair at the rear of the wearers body when worn, each ring being movable up and down relative to a vertically adjacent ring at locations other than at said front attachment location, said front attachment location being designed to maintain the padding vertically adjacent ones of said semi-rings in partially overlapped relationship adjacent said front attachment location.
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14. Protective garment comprising:
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a connecting member designed when worn to be located at the front of the body in the vicinity of the waist area, a plurality of semi-rings of flat relatively thin padded members arranged to be located on each side of the wearer'"'"'s body and arranged, when worn, to have their long dimension extending about the body and their width dimension approximately parallel to the wearer'"'"'s body, one end of each padded member being attached to said connecting member, the other ends of said padded members being connected to each other at the rear of the body, when worn, each semi-ring padded member being movable up and down relative to an adjacent padded member of such plurality, at locations between said front attachment location and said connection at the rear of the wearer'"'"'s body, said attachment of said padded members being designed so the padding of said members is in partially overlapped relationship adjacent said front attachment location. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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