Patent ID: 7770235

Claim:
A waterproof, breathable fishing wader comprising a trunk portion; a right leg portion; a left leg portion; a right foot portion; and, a left foot portion; the improvement comprising: said trunk portion and leg portions being constructed from waterproof breathable three layer laminated panels including an outer layer, a middle layer, and an inner layer; each of said outer, middle, and inner layers having planar surfaces and edges generally perpendicular to said layers planar surfaces; said inner layers generally parallel to the skin surface of a wearer when the wader is worn; a first three layer laminated panel and a second three layer laminated panel joined to one another at waterproof seams in which said edges of said three laminated edges of said first laminated panel and said three laminated edges of said second laminated panel are non-overlappingly butt joined to one another by an un-sewn, sonic weld wherein said outer, middle, and inner layer surfaces of the first and second laminated panels are in a coplanar orientation; said edges of at least said first three layer laminated panel and at least said second three layer laminated panel are non-folded, flat and butted against one another thus forming a fishing wader having minimal seam bulges; and, wherein said edges and said weld are reinforced to one another by seam tape overlaying portions of coplanar said laminated layers of said first and second three layer laminated panels on a surface of said inner layers of said three layer laminated panels and said weld therebetween.