Patent ID: 7051374
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: A41D,A41F,A62B

Abstract:
1. For a firefighter or for an emergency rescue worker, a protective ensemble comprising a protective item and a protective garment having a limb-covering, torso-covering, or head-covering region, which has a distal portion that surrounds a portion of the protective item when the protective item and the protective garment are worn, wherein the protective item has a gasket extending around and outside the item portion that is surrounded by the distal portion when the protective item and the protective garment having the protective sleeve are worn, the protective sleeve has a gasket extending around and inside the distal portion, and the gaskets are adapted to engage each other when the protective item and the protective garment having the protective sleeve are worn, and wherein a given one of the gaskets is magnetic and the other one of the gaskets is magnetically attractable.