Apparel inventions 03/06

20060064793 - Mask for eyes: A mask for eyes is disclosed to include a mask body, a support member formed of an elastic material and fixedly fastened to the mask body at the back, the support member having a thin flap containing a natural mineral stone powder or blocks that emits negative ions, far infrared...

20060064794 - Infant sleep suit: An innovative sleeping suit for infants, configured to provide warmth, a contained environment, and positive proprioceptive input, and thereby reduce neurological reflexive twitching or habitual waking patterns prevalent when infants are placed on their backs for sleeping and are not swaddled. The weighting in the suit is believed to reduce...

20060064795 - Shawl: A shawl including a sheet of fabric having an inner surface and an outer surface defined by a top edge, a bottom edge, a right side edge and a left side edge. The sheet of fabric is dimensioned to allow the right and left hands of the user to each...

20060064796 - Double face work gloves: Improved work gloves comprising a front face forming a human hand which may define four to five fingers, a rear face forming a human hand defining four to five fingers, wherein the rear face is identical to the front face, a tuck strip joining said front face to said rear...

20060064797 - Expandable material for use in a garment: A protective garment having an expandable material incorporated therein is provided. The expandable material may be formed of a nonwoven fabric having a first fabric surface and a second fabric surface which is opposite the first fabric surface. A section of the fabric defines at least one region gathered into...

20060064798 - Apparatus for enhancing absorption and dissipation of impact forces for sweatbands: A sweatband designed to be worn on a user for usage in a variety of sporting activities. The sweatband comprises inserts for the purpose of protecting the user, which may be permanently placed or removable. In the preferred mode, the inserts are polymeric and function to absorb and dissipate impact...

20060064799 - Modular helmet: A helmet is disclosed that includes a hinged chin guard and a hinged visor. The chin guard and the visor can each be independently raised or they can be raised together. That is, they can be rotated up and from in front of the face of a wearer of the...

20060064800 - Decubitus ulcer prevention and treatment: A device and method for alleviating pressure on a portion of a patient's body that may be bed-ridden or otherwise constrained for long periods of time. A position of the mechanism is based upon a location or distribution of angiosomes in the body portion. The mechanism includes a pump, and...

20060064801 - Impact absorbing protective gear: An impact absorbing protective gear for protecting an area of the wearer's body includes a pad, which is configured to generally conform to the area of the wearer's body, and a fluid containing body. The pad includes an inner surface and an outer surface, with the inner surface for facing...

20060053521 - Baseball catcher's mask: A protective headgear, such as a baseball catcher's mask, is disclosed. The protective headgear includes a shell, a cage, padding, and a strap/harness device. The shell includes a flared jaw area providing protection to the player/wearer's jaw. The cage includes a throat protection portion that extends downward, past the shell,...

20060053520 - Face guard for a sporting helmet: The present invention is dedicated to a face mask for a sporting helmet, the face mask being an integral one-piece cast metal comprising a plurality of curved longitudinal members and a plurality of rising members joining each other thereby defining a plurality of apertures....

20060053522 - Pulse oximetry finger sleeve: This invention is new in the medical field. Patient care people use a hand-held device with a plastic finger clip which comes in contact with the patient's finger to obtain an oxygen concentration and pulse rate during breathing treatments or for patients on oxygen for evaluation. It is not possible...

20060053523 - Reusable carrier with expandable, disposable insert: A reusable carrier with expandable, disposable insert is disclosed including an apron having at least one pocket and a disposable container therein. The disposable container includes a front wall and a back wall each having an outwardly disposed clip to secure the disposable container within a pocket of the apron,...

20060053524 - Garment for preventing muscle strain: A garment adapted for wear by persons desiring to maintain their arms in a fixed position along their upper body. The garment includes an upper portion, such as a shirt, adapted for wear on the upper body, and at least one hand portion, such as a glove. The shirt is...

20060053525 - Garments for dialysis patients: A garment for covering the upper body of a patient undergoing dialysis to keep the patient warm and comfortable during dialysis comprising a jacket made from a warm and soft material for covering the arms and torso of a patient, the jacket having a torso member for covering the torso...

20060053526 - Shirt for a sports player: The invention provides a shirt suitable for being worn by a sports player. The shirt comprises a torso portion having a head opening and a lower trunk opening; and first and second sleeves, each of the first and second sleeves comprising biceps, elbow and forearm portions and a gripping zone...

20060053527 - Modular hat: Systems in accordance with the present invention can include hats having a base and one or more layers removably connectable with the base and/or one or more layers. Substitute layers can be interchanged with the one or more layers to create a different aesthetic or function of the hat. Further,...

20060053529 - Air conditioned helmet apparatus: A helmet (12) includes a thermoelectric heat pump (14) mounted onto a rear surface of the helmet shell (12) for delivering temperature conditioned air to the interior of the helmet shell. A multi-layer structure (48) on the helmet shell interior distributes conditioned air across the scalp and directly onto the...

20060053528 - Safety helmet having a ventilation assembly: A safety helmet having a shell constructed of a rigid material, the shell having a body portion and a brim portion extending outwardly from the body portion, the body portion having an exterior surface, an interior surface, an interior cavity defined by the interior surface of the body portion, and...

20060053530 - Protective ear shades for caps: Protective ear shades for headwear such as caps, which shades include a pair of cupped or oblate shades extending from stitched or sewn attachment to the sides of the cap over the ears to protect the ears from ultraviolet radiation. In a preferred embodiment the protective ear shades curve from...

20060053531 - Quick release weight lifter belt: A support belt, particularly adapted for weight lifting users, includes a strap mounted to the main belt. A ratchet mechanism is mounted to one end of the strap. The other end of the strap is inserted through the ratchet mechanism and folded upon itself and secured to itself to form...

20060053532 - Adjustable headband: A headband for use in a headgear support includes a first end section having a plurality of connectors extending latitudinally from a lateral surface of the first end section. The headband also includes a second end section having a fastener attached adjacent the end thereof. The fastener includes a flexible...

20060053534 - Advanced cooperative defensive military tactics, armor, and systems: This invention provides impact detection and vehicle cooperation to achieve particular goals and determine particular threat levels. For example, an impact/penetration sensing device may be provided on a soldier's clothing such that when this clothing is impacted/penetrated (e.g., penetrated to a particular extent) a medical unit (e.g., a doctor or...

20060053533 - Inflatable crash garment for non enclosed vehicle rider: The crash garment comprises an inner suit to be worn by a person and associated therewith, an inflatable flexible member. The inflatable member has a gas producing device capable of releasing gas and inflating the inflatable member when the person is suddenly separated from the vehicle. This is made possible...

20060053535 - Shoulder pad for contact sports: The present invention provides a shoulder pad for use in a contact sport, such as football, hockey or lacrosse. The shoulder pad includes a pair of arch members, each having an upper portion, a front portion depending from the upper portion, and a rear portion depending from the upper portion....

20060048258 - Protection gear against harmful insects: Provided is protection gear against harmful insects that enables controlling and capturing of harmful insects in addition to protection against harmful insects. The protection gear against harmful insects includes a protection net made of ventilative cloth, woven fabric, or nonwoven fabric, the protection net being worn to cover the head,...

20060048259 - Finger protector and sports glove equipped therewith: There is proposed a finger protector for a sports glove, including a plate that is connected in one piece with strips to be associated to several fingers of one hand, each strip consisting of a chain of members which are connected in one piece with each other and can be...

20060048260 - Protective clothing article: A protective clothing article and a method for making the same are disclosed. In accordance with the embodiments of the invention the protective clothing article includes a plurality of potholders with pocket cavities for covering and protecting a user's hands while handling, holding or manipulating hot or cold objects. The...

20060048261 - Athletic garment: An athletic garment includes a user-selectable front panel, a user-selectable back panel and at least one fastener coupled to the user-selectable front panel and to the user-selectable back panel. The front panel displays indicia associated with at least one athletic affiliation and the user-selectable back panel displays indicia associated with...

20060048262 - Fashion concept: The present invention provides a fashion design concept allowing a wearer to create a personalized style of clothing by combining a front panel of a shirt, blouse, pair of pants, skirt or dress with a corresponding back panel of the particular article of clothing. Both the front and back panels...

20060048264 - Garment having a foam cushion: A garment, for example a headpiece such as a “doo-rag”, which includes a pressure-imparting portion which secures the garment to a wearer's body. The garment has a foam cushion sewn into a seam thereof at the pressure-imparting portion, between the part of the garment which directly imparts pressure to the...

20060048263 - Garment with hydrophobic forearms: A garment comprising different portions having different performance characteristics. A preferred embodiment is a fishing shirt comprising: a body portion, said body portion being fabricated from a breathable, knitted fabric having a wicking finish; a collar portion and a yoke portion, said collar portion and said yoke portion being fabricated...

20060048265 - T-shirt with sleeve extensions: T-shirt type garment with a main body portion similar to a conventional T-shirt with short sleeves. Permanently attached to the end of the short sleeves are sleeve extensions. The sleeve extensions are attached in a way that gives the appearance of a T-shirt worn over a sweatshirt. The sleeve extension...

20060048266 - Shirt holder: I invented SHIRT HOLDER which is all of the ways and things to prevent shirt coming out from pants or belt to avoid odd looking and uncomfortable. There are many ways that letting the SHIRT HOLDER hold the shirt to be stayed inside of pants or belt as the same...

20060048267 - Finished slot and adjustable shirt collar and method of manufacturing same: An adjustable collar having a finished slot through which a fabric strip passes unimpeded. A pair of flaps is affixed to an inner side of an outer band of the collar and abut the finished slot. The fabric strip is secured to a free end of an elastic strip, which...

20060048268 - Glove: The invention describes a fireproof glove (1) with a layered structure comprising at least one liquid-tight functional layer (18) and a heat-resistant and/or fire-retarding layer (20) with low thermal conductivity. Furthermore, the invention describes a glove (1) comprising a material precut (3) with one or more reinforced areas (24). Moreover,...

20060048269 - Functional glove for the hand of a disabled person: A functional glove for the hand of a disabled person, which comprises at least one optionally flexible restraint for at least one of the fingers of the hand, and removable fastening means for rigid fixing to the wrist. The glove, during use, is worn over the hand by the disabled...

20060048270 - Heat dissipated high molecular glove: A heat dissipated high molecular glove comprises a particle textured interior surface in an interior of the glove having a substrate and a plurality of particles on the particle textured interior surface; each of the particles having a height between 0.02 to 0.15 mm. When the glove is worn by...

20060048271 - Hat: There is provided a one-size-fits-all hat that requires no size adjustment, the hat being able to sufficiently protect a head, offering no uncomfortable fit to tightly press the head, and causing no headache from long hours of wearing, the hat offering a soft fit and being prevented from moving on...

20060048272 - Sports hat: A sports hat constructed of a crown with multiple tapered interconnected panels terminating at an elliptical peripheral edge, a stiffened brim extending radially outward to a circular shape. The brim being stiffened to maintain a predefined or wearer adjusted shape with the sides curling upwards. The leading edges of the...

20060048273 - Cap having comfortable elastic band: A cap includes a hemispherical portion, a visor portion, and an elastic band attached to the bottom peripheral portion of the hemispherical portion, to resiliently engage onto the heads of the users, and to adjustably accommodate a number of various sized heads. The elastic band includes a number of elastic...

20060048274 - Headwear: The present invention discloses a headwear having a crown adapted to cover the top of a wearer's head, and a brim formed in a predetermined shape at the lower peripheral edge of the crown, and a rim formed along the inner peripheral surface of the lower peripheral edge of the...

20060048276 - Cap linked by strings: A cap or visor consisting a crown portion or rim portion and a visor protion is secured to the front bottom of the crown portion. The crown portion, rim portion, or the visor portion, or any combination thereof is separated with at least one gap, both sides of the separated...

20060048275 - Headwear having exposed stitches to fix a lower hem thereof: Headwear having exposed stitches to fix a lower hem thereof is disclosed. The headwear has a head-wearing portion being stretchable in at least a circumferential direction, and exposed stitches which are viewed outside and are disposed along the lower hem. The exposed stitches are formed by a stretch yarn as...

20060048277 - Head covering with hair retaining pouch: A head covering commonly known as a skull cap in which the ‘tail’ extending from the back of the neck is fashioned into a pouch with an elasticized opening. The user styles his/her long hair with a ponytail, applies and secures the skullcap, and then inserts the ponytail hair into...

20060048278 - Facial mask: The present invention meets the above needs and others by providing an open celled facial mask that is worn on the user's face to provide comfort and relaxation and to optionally act as a topical applicator. The present invention includes an open celled facial mask with optional cutouts such as...

20060048281 - Bird-cap assembly: The combination comprising a figure element mounted on the bill of a cap. The figure element includes a removable compartment and the mounting means comprises an elongated threaded screw member having an enlarged head at one end engageable through a hole in the bill. A washer is disposed between the...

20060048280 - Ear cover: An ear cover 10 is provided for protecting an individual's ear 12 from chemicals and moisture. The cover 10 is made of a lightweight flexible plastic material which is impervious to chemicals and water. The cover 10 is provided with side wall members 20 and 22, respectively, and lower and...

20060048279 - Hangable golf hat, cap, visor and the like: At least one reenforced eyelet is provided on a hat, cap or visor to receive one end of a removably securable clip having a second end fastenable to any user selected location in reducing the possibility of losing such head covering when it is not being worn....

20060048282 - Chamois for athletic shorts having relatively elastic portion and relatively inelastic portion: The present invention provides a chamois for use with athletic shorts and/or pants. The chamois comprises an elastic portion that stretches to conform to a wearer's body to reduce irritation and a relatively inelastic portion that resists stretch to inhibit breakdown of the foam in support areas....

20060048283 - Manufacture of a garment and such a garment: There is described a method for making a clothing article (1) for persons with hernia, preferably an ostomy hernia. The produced clothing article may be mass produced, as it has a possibility of adaptation to different persons with different size and shape. This is effected by making the clothing article...

20060048284 - Shell for ballistic helmet: A shell for ballistic helmet formed from a plurality of paraaramide fabric layers such as KEVLAR-KM2®, and bonding resin. All fabric layers have areal density less than 200 g/m2, preferably part of them have areal density less than 160 g/m2. The number of paraaramide layers is greater than 28, preferably...

20060048285 - Ratchet mechanism with unitary knob and pinion construction: A ratchet mechanism for the headband of a protective helmet or other headgear minimizes the number of components while ensuring precise, reliable operation of the rack and pinion arrangement of the ratchet mechanism. A headband of a protective helmet or similar headgear generally has overlapping rear end portions which are...

20060048286 - Helmet for displaying environmental images in critical environments: A helmet for displaying environmental images in critical environments, comprising at least one video camera and means for displaying environmental images, characterized in that it comprises a supporting structure that can be anchored to said helmet in order to support said at least one video camera and said display means,...

20060048287 - Frameless diving face mask: A frameless diving face mask embodying a plastic fabricated hard headgear fixedly clasp to the frameless diving face mask. Wherein the headgear is not only color changeable, moreover, can be fabricated to display varied trademarks, brand logos, and so on. Furthermore, a lug and a soft elastic member are configured...

20060048288 - Eye goggles with unitary internal skeleton and overmoulded covering: Eye goggles comprising an inner skeleton of a rigid material formed from a pair of transparent eye piece elements and an integral nose bridge element connected therebetween to permit relative movement between the eye piece elements and the nose bridge element. A covering partially covers the inner skeleton to define...

20060048289 - Goggles with changeable lenses: A pair of goggles having a main frame including two fitting members, two lenses fitted in the main frame, two hollow side guards, and a band secured to the side guards. Each of the two fitting members being separable at a line extended from an inner edge of a lens...

20060048290 - Covets: I claim that COVETS, is the only product that would be offered to the public, in a variety of sizes for the hand, arm, foot, leg and torso, that has the ability to cover cast or bandages, and be submerged in water or liquid. It will seal out large amounts...

20060048291 - Insect protector shield: Disclosed is an insect excluding garment designed for protection against most domestic and wild insects. The garment is made of a moderately rigid and extremely lightweight insect obstructing mesh with internal foam core structure supports that cause said mesh to stand away from wearer and is comprised of a removable...

20060048292 - Protective body vest: This invention concerns a protective body vest/vest/jersey for protecting against impact upon a human torso when worn by an athlete during sporting activities. The invention comprises a multi-layered, one-piece garment comprising a vest/jersey sized and shaped to be worn on the torso of an athlete with a protective padding that...

20060048293 - Chinstrap for protective garment having collar and protective garment having chinstrap and having collar: A protective garment having a collar has a chinstrap attached to the collar via an elongate member having two opposite ends, each of which is attached to the collar and one of which is attached detachably to the collar via a hook-and-loop fastener. The chinstrap is adjustable along the elongate...

20060041985 - Knee pad construction: A knee pad construction includes a shaped cushion element with a concave interior with a recess having a flowable gel insert therein. The recess and insert are shaped to accommodate the left knee or the right knee of an individual....

20060041986 - Knee pad construction: A knee pad construction includes a shaped cushion element with a concave interior with a recess having a flowable gel insert therein. The recess and insert are shaped to accommodate the left knee or the right knee of an individual....

20060041987 - Disposable underarm perspiration patch: A disposable underarm perspiration patch has a flat flexible body having a first soft porous layer, which contacts the armpit of a user by a sticky surface, approximately ¼ inch wide around the perimeter, A second moisture-absorbing layer retains the moisture secreted by the armpit of the user, while a...

20060041988 - Protective-apparel sleeve and protective apparel incorporating same: A protective-apparel sleeve (10) includes a tubular inner piece (12) of membrane laminated or coated fabric and a tubular outer piece (14) of membrane laminated or coated fabric generally surrounding the tubular inner piece (12). In further detail, the tubular inner piece (12) includes a stitched seam (24) along its...

20060041989 - Liquid-proof sleeve and protective apparel incorporating same: A liquid-proof protective-apparel sleeve includes a tubular inner piece of membrane laminated or coated fabric and a tubular outer piece of membrane laminated or coated fabric generally surrounding the tubular inner piece. In further detail, the tubular inner piece includes a stitched seam along its length, and the tubular outer...

20060041990 - Garment with a venting structure and method of using the same: This invention relates generally to apparel, and in particular, to a garment with a venting structure and a method of using the venting structure....

20060041991 - Latex glove with textured outer surface: An ambidextrous, latex glove is provided with a textured surface on the areas of the glove corresponding with the touch parts of fingers and a palm. That is, the areas on a hand that are used for gripping and holding are covered with a textured latex surface, providing increased friction...

20060041992 - Cap having comfortable structure: A cap includes a hemispherical portion having two side openings, an elastic band attached to bottom peripheral portion of the hemispherical portion, to resiliently engage onto the heads of the users. The elastic band includes a front segment secured to the front portion of the hemispherical portion, a rear segment...

20060041993 - Disposable bandana: The disposable bandana is an absorbent bandana adapted to fit on a user's head and absorb perspiration and dirt. The bandana is made from a flexible sheet of disposable material, so a user may wear and use the bandana, and then dispose of the bandana following use. The disposable bandana...

20060041994 - Inflatable protective enclosure: An apparatus and method allows for the construction of an inflatable, protective enclosure that provides a temporary, contaminant free environment for one or more individuals. The approach results in a protective suit and/or enclosure that is inexpensive, compactly stored and light-weight, yet provides a reliable source of filtered, contaminant-free air...