Patent ID: 7523508
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: A41D,A63B

Abstract:
1. Hockey pants for protecting a wearer having a lower spine region, lower ribs, a waist region, left and right hip regions, a crotch region, and left and right thighs, said hockey pants comprising an inner protective unit and an outer shell with its upper edge connected to said inner protective unit, said outer shell having an upper portion for covering the waist and left and right hip regions of the wearer, a crotch portion for covering the crotch region of the wearer and left and right leg portions for covering the respective left and right thighs of the wearer, said inner protective unit comprising a padded band for covering the waist region of the wearer, left separate first and second protective pads and right separate first and second protective pads for covering the respective left and right hip regions, a first elastic band connecting said left first and second protective pads and a second elastic band connecting said right first and second protective pads, wherein said first elastic band has an upper end affixed to a left inner surface of said padded band of said inner protective unit and a lower end affixed to an upper edge of said left second protective pad, wherein said second elastic band has an upper end affixed to a right inner surface of said padded band of said inner protective unit and a lower end affixed to an upper edge of said right second protective pad, wherein, in use, each of said first and second elastic bands allows movement of each second protective pad relative to each first protective pad between an extended position, wherein there is a first overlapping between said first and second protective pads, and a retracted position, wherein there is a second overlapping between said first and second protective pads, said second overlapping being larger than said first overlapping, and wherein said hockey pants further comprise left and right elastic bands connecting said respective second left and right protective pads to an inner surface of said respective left and right leg portions of said outer shell, each of said left and right elastic bands biasing said first and second protecting pads towards said extended position.