Patent ID: 8961253
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A63B,B63B

Abstract:
1. A floatation garment, comprising: a garment front sheet having a wider forward sheet portion with parallel and spaced apart upper and lower series of front buoyant member pockets within each of which a front buoyant member is retained, such that the positions of said upper and lower series of front buoyant pockets containing front buoyant members and the spacing between said upper and lower series permit said front sheet to bend along a horizontal line between buoyant members to permit a wearer to bend forward at the waist, the front garment sheet tapering downwardly at its lower end; a garment rear sheet having parallel and spaced apart upper and lower series of rear buoyant member pockets each containing a rear buoyant member, said garment rear sheet also tapering downwardly from its lower end and meets and connects to the tapered lower end of the garment front sheet to define a connecting segment for passing front to back between the wearer legs; sheet interconnection means for releasibly and laterally interconnecting said garment front sheet and said garment rear sheet and having sheet interconnection means fastening means; such that to put on said garment a wearer places said connecting segment between wearer legs with said front sheet extending in front of the wearer and said rear sheet extending in back of the wearer, and then pivots said front sheet upwardly against the wearer abdomen and said rear sheet upwardly against the wearer back to define two leg openings on opposing sides of said connecting segment fitted around the wearer legs, and the corresponding and said sheet interconnection means is operated to laterally interconnect said front sheet and said rear sheet.