Patent ID: 7043767
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: A41D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A ventilation system for clothing, preferably watertight and windproof sports clothing, composed preferably of watertight or windproof fabric, said ventilation system comprising ventilation openings, shingle-like overlaps of the fabric structured and arranged to cover the ventilation openings, and a flexible, three-dimensionally intertwined or cross-linked spacer material structured and arranged to close the ventilation openings, wherein said spacer material is in the form of a strip having first and second outer edges, with a first outer edge of said spacer material being sewn to an outer edge of said shingle-like overlap, and a second outer edge of said spacer material being sewn to an outer edge of a fabric layer covered by said shingle-like overlap, and said first lower edge of said spacer material is sewn to said lower outer edge of said shingle-like overlap and said second upper edge of said spacer material is sewn to said upper outer edge of said covered fabric.