Patent ID: 8747380

Claim:
A protective undergarment comprising: an outer shell having a waistband and a bumper at a front end and a rear end of the outer shell, each bumper extending the width of the protective undergarment; a sling attached to the outer shell along a front end and along a rear end of the sling, sides of the sling being unattached to the outer shell; pockets formed on the front and rear ends of the sling, the pockets configured to retain opposite ends of a removable fluid absorbent pad extending along an exposed surface of the sling; one of the pockets being formed between a cuff and a main sling layer, wherein the cuff includes two cuff side edges extending between an outer cuff edge and an inner cuff edge, the cuff being stitched to the main sling layer along the outer cuff edge and the two side cuff edges with the inner cuff edge being unattached to the main sling layer to form the one pocket, closed along three sides of the pocket and open along a fourth side of the pocket, so that one end of the removable fluid absorbent pad can be inserted into the pocket formed between the cuff and the main sling layer, wherein: the pocket formed on the rear end of the sling is formed by portions of the cuff and main sling layer, the cuff of the pocket formed on the rear end of the sling is directly attached to the bumper on the rear end of the outer shell; the pocket formed on the front end of the sling is an S-pocket, the S-pocket comprising three layers of material in which the first layer of material is a fluid resistant material directly attached to the bumper on the front end of the outer shell, the third layer of material comprises a portion of the sling, and the second layer of material is disposed in between and attached to the first layer of material and the third layer of material; and the S-pocket has a different size and shape than the pocket formed on the rear end of the sling.