Patent ID: 8067759
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: A41D,G21F

Abstract:
1. A radiation protective vest for protecting a user's upper body, said vest having radiation shielding material therein, said vest having left and right arm cutouts and a neck cutout, said vest comprising: (a) a back panel having an arcuate cutout at a top side and arcuate cutouts at opposite upper margins, flaps at opposite lower sides of said back panel; (b) first and second front panels, each said front panel having an arcuate cutout at a top side, said top side arcuate cutouts of said back panel and said arcuate cutouts of said first and second front panels forming said neck cutout, left and right shoulder portions formed in said back panel, said first front panel and said second panel at said neck cutout, said left and right shoulder portions of said back panel connected respectively to said right and left shoulder portions of said first and second front panels, each said first and second front panel having a straight inner side, an arcuate cutout formed at upper outer margins of each of said first and second front panels, said arcuate cutouts at said upper margins of said back panel and said arcuate cutouts at said upper margins of said first and second front panels forming said left and right arm cutouts when said vest is worn by a user, a flap at a lower outer side of each said first and second front panel; (c) securing means on said straight inner sides of said first and second front panels for securing said first front panel and said second front panel together; (d) a first strap attached to said lower side of said first panel and a second strap attached to said lower side of said second front panel; (e) first and second sleeves, said first sleeve attached to an inside face of said back panel adjacent one side of said lower side of said back panel, said second sleeve attached to said inside face of said back panel adjacent an opposite side of said lower side of said back panel, said first and second sleeves being laterally aligned, said first sleeve configured to receive said second strap, said second sleeve configured to receive said first strap, said first and second sleeves positioned at the waist of the user when said vest is being worn by the user, said first strap threaded into said second sleeve, said second strap threaded into said first strap, said first and second straps held away from one another when threaded into said second and first sleeves, respectively; and (f) first and second attachment means, said first attachment means attached to said first strap at a free marginal end thereof and said second attachment means attached to said second strap a free marginal end thereof, said first and second attachment means attachable to one another at various positions, when a user puts on said vest and simultaneously pulls on said first strap and said second strap, said first and second front panels are pulled rearwardly toward one another and toward said back panel while pulling said back panel forward toward the front of the user, said flaps of said first and second front panels pulled against the waist of the user and one of said flaps of said back panel overlapping one of said first and second front panels and the other of said flaps of said back panel overlapping the other of said first and second front panels, said overlapping of said back panel, said first front panel, said second front panel providing increased radiation protection, pulling of said first and second straps exerting a force on the user's waist for transferring a portion of the weight of the vest from the user's shoulders to the user's waist and lower back, said first and second straps attached to one another by said first and second attachment means.