Patent ID: 7017191

Claim:
A ventilated protective garment, said garment comprising: a garment shell having a front panel and a back panel cooperatively providing a neck opening, and a pair of sleeves, one sleeve for each of the wearer's arms; said pair of sleeves each having a forearm portion extending between an elbow portion of the respective sleeve and a respective cuff structure at a terminal end of each sleeve; each of said forearm portions defining a ventilation structure, which ventilation structure includes an elongate ventilation slit extending lengthwise of said forearm portion across said respective cuff structure and to said terminal end of said forearm portion, a flexible air-permeable panel spanning said slit and limiting the extent to which said slit may gap open, and a slide fastener including a pair of engageable elongate track portions one attached at each side of said slit and a slide member moving along said pair of elongate track portions between a first position and a second position along said slit to respectively engage and disengage said engageable track portions and simultaneously to close and open said ventilation slit, said cuff structure further including a strap portion adjacent to said terminal end of said forearm portion and movable between an unfastened position in which said slit may gap open to allow passage through said cuff of a wearer's hand, and a fastened position in which said strap portion extends circumferentially of said cuff structure and across said slit so that said cuff structure is circumferentially continuous and the sleeve cannot slide up the wearer's arm above the wearer's wrist and to allow said ventilation slit to be opened and closed above said strap portion by said slide fastener.