Apparel – Nether garments – Bifurcated
Patent
1996-06-11
1998-08-18
Hale, Gloria M.
Apparel
Nether garments
Bifurcated
2 69, 2108, A41D 106, A41D 102
Patent
active
057942684
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention involves garments and concerns more particularly an improvement for a garment, types of trousers or anorak, containing an impervious part.
2. Discussion of Background
Garments are becoming more and more well designed and comfortable. Manufacturers compete to offer customers models suitable for their use, e.g., sports, like garments worn by skiers. In the field of ski apparel, it has been already proposed that trousers be totally made with stretchable material so that the garment fits on the legs of skiers. This type of garment is now tending to be replaced with more comfortable trousers which do not cling onto the legs of the user or, at least, their whole legs, to give freer and better movement. These garments, however, suffer from the problem of imperviousness of the garment against snow that can come up from the bottom of the trousers.
To remedy those inconveniences, manufacturers disposed inside the bottom of the trousers, a snow-guard tube made with a nylon fabric. The hem of the snow-guard tube is gathered with an elastic band to be disposed around the boot of the skier. This type of snow-guard tube is, for example, disclosed by French Patent Publication No. 2 393 543. In such realization, the bottom of the trousers contains, moreover, a lateral slit permitting, after opening, to dispose the snowguard tube around the collar of the boot, around which the slit must be carefully closed then. This type of disposal presents, of course, a certain number of inconveniences like, for example, disposing the snow-guard over the boot, which is not an easy operation with actual boots containing a series of buckles, without listing its detrimental effect on imperviousness well known to users. Besides, it is not rare to have to leave open the lateral slit because the bottom part of the trousers is too small. This type of garment is not satisfying from a comfort, imperviousness, or design point of view.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention resolves the inconveniences described above and proposes an improvement which is simple, not too expensive, and satisfying from the comfort and imperviousness point of view.
Thus, the garment of the invention is composed of an external envelope having a longitudinal slit. In the opened position, two lateral borders of extension of the envelope are separated. In a closed position, two lateral borders of the slit are fixed by a fastening system. The garment also includes an impervious part disposed inside of the external envelope, and wherein the impervious part is composed of a face limited peripherally by an upper edge and a lower edge and two lateral borders. The lateral borders of the impervious part are connected to the lateral borders of the slit of the external envelope to be fixed on.
According to another embodiment, the impervious part is made with a soft material whose lower border contains elastic means, whereas another embodiment involves a bi-stretchable material like neoprene.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the garment is a pair of trousers whose lower portion has an impervious part on each leg.
According to a particular embodiment, an impervious face involves a central projection at front which extends to knee level. Thus, the impervious face extends laterally from the central projection to behind and to the bottom to join the longitudinal slit of the external envelope on which the face is fixed by its lateral borders.
According to an advantageous embodiment, the upper border of the impervious face is connected to an internal lining by way of an intermediate band with stretch material.
In addition, the width of the impervious face can be less at a given width of the external envelope, and the fasten system of the slit can be a slide fastener.
Of course, the invention can find application in other types of garments like, for example, an anorak.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will be clear from the descripti
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