Patent ID: 7328461
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
1. For a firefighter or for an emergency worker, a pair of protective trousers having an outer shell and a liner, the liner of the protective trousers providing at least one of a moisture barrier and a chemical barrier, the protective trousers further having a torso-covering portion having a fly, which has a closed condition wherein a first edge of the torso-covering portion and a second edge of the torso-covering portion are secured releasably to each other, in which each of the first and second edges have a length extending to an upper edge of the torso-covering portion, and which has an opened condition, wherein the first and second edges are not secured to each other, the torso-covering portion having a gusset which has a first end attached to the first edge and a second end attached to the second edge in the opened and closed conditions of the fly, the first and second ends extending and continuously connected along the length of the first and second edges, wherein the gusset has an outer shell and a liner, the liner of the gusset providing at least one of a moisture barrier and a chemical barrier.