Sports garment having variable thickness sections

• US 5,469,581 A
• Filed: 03/10/1994
• Issued: 11/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Corporate Concept Marketing
• Original Assignee: Corporate Concept Marketing
• Inventors: Uthoff, David C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crowder, C. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HALE, GLORIA M
• Application Number:
  US08/208,476
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 2/69, 2/90, 2/115, 2/DIG. 4, 2/106, 2/243.1, 2/272, 2/108, 2/81, 2/82
• US Class Current: 2/69
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/0015 Sports garments other than provided for in groups A41D13/0007 - A41D13/088
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/002 with controlled internal environment
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/10 Heat retention or warming
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/10 Sleeves; Armholes
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 3/005 with pullover structure

Abstract

A sports garment for warmth with freedom of movement having thin sections and thick sections where inner arm areas and inner torso areas defined by the area of contact between the arms and torso of the wearer during a swinging motion are formed out of a relatively thin material for freedom of motion and where the other areas of the garment are formed of a thicker insulating material for warmth.

Claims

1. A garment for providing maximum thermal insulation while allowing freedom of arm motion comprising:

a front panel covering the front of the torso of a wearer, said front panel having a front outer layer and a front inner layer attached to said front outer layer;

a rear panel covering the back of the torso of a wearer, said back panel having a rear outer layer and a rear inner layer attached to said rear outer layer;

a tubular sleeve joined to said front panel and to said rear panel, said sleeve having a sleeve outer layer and a sleeve inner layer attached to said sleeve outer layer, said tubular sleeve forming an underarm area with said front panel and said rear panel;

an inner torso area extending horizontally from approximately said underarm area forward to approximately a midpoint of the wearer'"'"'s ribcage and extending vertically from said tubular sleeve downward to approximately the bottom of the wearer'"'"'s ribcage where said front inner layer and said rear inner layer is removed from said inner torso area;

an inner arm area extending horizontally from approximately the midpoint of the front of said tubular sleeve rearward past said underarm area where said sleeve inner layer is removed from said inner arm area.

2. The garment of claim 1, wherein said front outer layer and said rear outer layer and said sleeve outer layer are made of a relatively thin material and where said front inner layer and said rear inner layer and said sleeve inner layer are made of a relatively thick material.

3. A garment for the playing of sports comprising:

a torso section covering substantially all of the upper trunk of the body of a wearer having at least three apertures therein, a first aperture for passage of the wearer'"'"'s neck and a second aperture and a third aperture for passage of the wearer'"'"'s arms therethrough;

a pair of sleeves attached to said second and said third apertures respectively;

an underarm section defined where said torso section directly opposes said sleeves during a swinging motion by the wearer;

a thin area of said garment covering said underarm section; and

a thick area of said garment covering all of said garment except said thin area, where said thin area has one layer of a first material and said thick area has two layers, a first layer of said first material and a second layer of a second material.

4. The garment of claim 3, wherein said first material is a nylon material and said second material is a thermal insulating material.

5. A garment for the playing of sports comprising:

a torso section covering substantially all of the upper trunk of the body of a wearer having at least three apertures therein, a first aperture for passage of the wearer'"'"'s neck and a second aperture and a third aperture for passage of the wearer'"'"'s arms therethrough;

a pair of sleeves attached to said second and said third apertures respectively;

an underarm section defined where said torso section directly opposes said sleeves during a swinging motion by the wearer;

a thin area of said garment covering said underarm section; and

a thick area of said garment covering all of said garment except said thin area, where said thin area is constructed of a first material and said thick area is constructed of a second material, said first material being comprised of one layer and said second material being comprised of at least two layers.