Garment, especially sports garment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9974346-B2
Application number	US-201414892493-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2014
Priority date	Mar 1, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A garment, especially a sports garment, having a section which at least partially covers the body of a wearer, wherein the section has at least one venting element for allowing an air flow to flow from the outside of the garment through the section into the inner of the garment for cooling a part of the body of the wearer. To improve the cooling during the movement of the wearer of the garment an actuating mechanism is arranged for opening and closing the venting element in dependence of the movement of a part of the body of the wearer during the use of the garment.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A garment, wherein the garment is a jacket or shirt having:
a section configured to at least partially cover the body of a wearer, wherein the section has at least one venting element for allowing an air flow to flow from the outside of the garment through the section into the inner of the garment for cooling a part of the body of the wearer, wherein the venting element is arranged in a spine region or a scapula region of the garment,
an arm sleeve extending in a longitudinal direction from a shoulder area of the garment to a distal end with a distal end opening through which a hand of a user can extend, and
actuating means configured to open and close the venting element in dependence of a movement of a part of the body of the wearer during the use of the garment, wherein the actuating means comprise a material section having a first end connected to the venting element and a second end connected to a plurality of actuating openings disposed at the distal end of the arm sleeve, the plurality of actuating openings are arranged at a distance from one another in the longitudinal direction of the arm sleeve, wherein the distance between each adjacent pair of the actuating openings is in the range of 1 cm to 3 cm so that a thumb of the wearer is receivable in one of the actuating openings, the actuating means is configured to establish a connection to the thumb of the user by the one of the actuating openings when the thumb of the wearer is received in the one of the actuating openings and to allow a transfer of tension via the material section along the longitudinal direction of the arm sleeve from the one of the actuating openings at the distal end to the venting element to open the venting element during a forward swinging movement of the sleeve relative to the garment by the wearer.

2. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of actuating openings includes three openings.

3. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein at least the arm sleeves of the jacket or shirt are configured to be close-fitting to the body of the wearer.

4. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein the venting element includes a first flap of the garment and a second flap of the garment, wherein edges of the first flap and the second flap are contacting in a closed state of the venting element and are gaping in an open state of the venting element.

5. The garment according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of the edges contains a stiffening element or is made of a stiff material, the stiffening element or the stiff material has a stiffness that is greater than a remainder of the first flap and the second flap.

6. The garment according to claim 4 , wherein the stiffness of the edges is different.

7. The garment according to claim 4 , wherein one of the edges is connected with the actuating means.

8. The garment according to claim 7 , wherein the stiffness of the one of the edges connected with the actuating means is greater than the stiffness of the other of the edges which is not connected with the actuating means.

9. The garment according to claim 6 , wherein the other of the edges with the lower stiffness has at least one indentation to reduce the stiffness.

10. The garment according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one venting element includes two venting elements arranged symmetrically in the spine region or in the scapula region of the garment.

Assignees

• Puma SE

Inventors

• Beneyto-Ferre Jordi

Classifications

• A41B1/08

  Details · CPC title

• A41D3/00

  Overgarments (fur garments A41D5/00; for children A41D11/00; professional or sporting protective garments A41D13/00) · CPC title

• A41D27/285 Primary

  with closure adjustment · CPC title

• A41D13/0015

  Sports garments other than provided for in groups A41D13/0007 - A41D13/088 · CPC title

• A41D31/18

  Elastic · CPC title