Apparel – Body garments – Waists
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-15
2001-10-09
Calvert, John J. (Department: 3765)
Apparel
Body garments
Waists
C002S069000, C002SDIG003
Reexamination Certificate
active
06298487
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a survival jacket and more particularly pertains to a new survival article of clothing for preventing suffocation or being crushed by the user until help can arrive.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a survival jacket is known in the prior art. More specifically, a survival jacket heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,490,501; U.S. Pat. No. 4,365,628; U.S. Pat. No. 5,781,936; U.S. Pat. No. 4,767,371; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 399,335; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,943,252.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new survival article of clothing. The inventive device includes a sleeve-less inflatable jacket member having a neck opening, shoulder portions, arm openings through the shoulder portions thereof, and being adapted to cover a front and a back of a user's upper torso with the jacket member also having an expandable outer layer of material and an inner layer of material and a collar member securely attached along the neck opening for covering the user's neck region; and also includes a front and back foldable flap-like protective members being securely attached along the neck opening of said jacket member and being adapted to extend about the user's face below one's eyes and about a lower portion of the user's back of one's head; and further includes strap members being fastenable to a bottom portion of the jacket member and being extendable about the user's legs; and also includes sleeve members being removably attached to about the arm openings of the jacket member; and further includes an inflation assembly for inflating the jacket member and providing oxygen to the user.
A survival article of clothing as described in claim
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, wherein said outer layer of material includes first and second pleated portions along said front side and said back side of said jacket member, each of said first and second pleated portions extending from said neck opening to a bottom of said jacket member along a central portion of a respective said front and back sides of said jacket member.
In these respects, the survival article of clothing according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of preventing suffocation or being crushed by the user until help can arrive.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of survival jacket now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new survival article of clothing construction wherein the same can be utilized for preventing suffocation or being crushed by the user until help can arrive.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new survival article of clothing which has many of the advantages of the survival jacket mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new survival article of clothing which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art survival jacket, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a sleeve-less inflatable jacket member having a neck opening, shoulder portions, arm openings through the shoulder portions thereof, and being adapted to cover a front and a back of a user's upper torso with the jacket member also having an expandable outer layer of material and an inner layer of material and a collar member securely attached along the neck opening for covering the user's neck region; and also includes a front and back foldable flap-like protective members being securely attached along the neck opening of said jacket member and being adapted to extend about the user's face below one's eyes and about a lower portion of the user's back of one's head; and further includes strap members being fastenable to a bottom portion of the jacket member and being extendable about the user's legs; and also includes sleeve members being removably attached to about the arm openings of the jacket member; and further includes an inflation assembly for inflating the jacket member and providing oxygen to the user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new survival article of clothing which has many of the advantages of the survival jacket mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new survival article of clothing which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art survival jacket, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new survival article of clothing which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new survival article of clothing which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new survival article of clothing which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such survival article of clothing economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new survival article of clothing which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is
Calvert John J.
Patel Tejash
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