Patent ID: 6332221
Filing Date: 2001-12-25
Classification: A41B,A41D,Y10S

Abstract:
An article of clothing for covering at least a part of a wearer's body having temperature sensitive bodily regions of high thermoregulatory capacity, including a spinal cord site, and bodily regions of lower thermoregulatory capacity, the article of clothing including fixed or removable air permeable or impermeable sectors including at least one sector of low heat insulatory capacity (29, 30, 31; 32, 33; 43, 48; 38, 49, 50, 51) and at least one sector of higher heat insulatory capacity (44; 44a; 52) wherein the article of clothing is constructed such that substantially al of the sectors of low heat insulatory capacity at sections of the article which are adapted to be aligned substantially exclusively with a specifically defined bodily region of high thermoregulatory capacity (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28) and such that the or each sector has a continuous perimeter and includes at least a hole, a modified fabric, or a panel of substantially constant low insulatory capacity value of substantially permanent dimensions (31, 33, 40, 48, 50) at a section of the article which is adapted to be aligned substantially exclusively with a region of the spinal cord site (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) overlayed by the article, and said hole, modified fabric, or panel being provided in a substantial majority of said section aligned with the spinal cord site, being substantially exclusively in juxtaposition to the spinal cord site, and being provided in an insulatory surface area central to a back of the article of clothing which forms a minority of an overall insulatory surface area of the back of the article of clothing.