Apparel – Guard or protector – Body cover
Patent
1992-07-27
1995-01-31
Crowder, Clifford D.
Apparel
Guard or protector
Body cover
2 22, 2267, 602 5, 602 6, 602 23, 602 26, A41D 1300
Patent
active
053849132
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to methods of and arrangements for providing protection to parts of the human body against the full force arising from impacts, blows or the like.
In particular, but not exclusively, the present invention is concerned with the protection of the limbs of sports persons against the full impact force arising from a blow from, for example, a boot as is a likely possibility in respect of sports, for example, involving the kicking of a ball such as a football; a bat or the like in the case of sports involving the use of a ball striking implement i.e., hockey stick; sports involving the use of a relatively hard form of ball such as, for example, a cricket ball etc.
THE PRIOR ART
It is well known that a vital and highly important part of the kit (i.e., the equipment required by sports persons to practice and/or play their sport) of sports persons in the case of sports of the kind above mentioned are guards dedicated for a particular protective purpose.
In the case of football it has become a standard practice to provide a guard or shield for protecting the shins of a player against the full impact of forces likely to arise from being struck by a player's boot.
It will be understood that frequently at the time of such impact the two persons involved are not only moving at speeds towards each other but additionally the kicking player is swinging the kicking leg as fast as he can to impart kicking distance to a ball. It will thus be appreciated that the magnitude of force involved can vary greatly depending upon the particular circumstances of the situation from a slight tap to very great impact force sufficient to break a leg or arm bone etc.
For a large number of years it has been a substantially standard practice to use as protection for player's shin bone an elongate pad including a plurality of side by side reinforcement strips. The strips are enclosed within outer layers of padding intended to soften or otherwise reduce the impact force created by an impacting boot. In practice, these known forces of constructions have not proved to be reliably successful in warding-off impacts.
Also, historically, it has been almost universal practice for players to insert the known pads into their socks in such position as to be located in front of the shin bone to shield an area extending roughly from just below the knee down to the top of the foot arch of the user.
In practice, it has been found that this simple method of relying upon a sock to hold the shin guard in place has not been a sufficiently reliable method since the shin guard retention relied wholly upon the resiliency of the sock in withstanding the additional stretch arising from the presence of the movable shin guard. Thus, in cases where the socks were a little too large or had lost some of their initial elasiticity the shin guard retention capability was correspondingly reduced with the result that the shin guards were not held in their optimum positions within a sock throughout a game and/or were allowing the shin guards to fall from the socks.
With a view to combating this undesirable overall situation the practice has developed in relation to games like football, for the players tightl to strap or tie the shin guards in place.
As will be appreciated this need to strip or otherwise tie the shin guards in place, whilst providing a solution to the problem of the shin guards not remaining in the required position is not in itself a particularly desirable way of achieving the aim of retaining the shin guard in place for a variety of reasons including, for example, the problem of tying the ties/cords involved sufficiently tight enough to keep the shin guards in place without interfering with free blood circulation, without compressing muscles which during the course of a game are continuously being flexed and unflexed etc., to an extent that the ties or cords dig into the muscles when flexed possibly leading to the occurance of cramp in the legs.
A further serious problem in relation to the known pads is th
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Crowder Clifford D.
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Santillo Limited
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