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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5144697 | Bi-waisted trousers Bi-waisted trousers conform to and comfortably grip the hips of a stout person without requiring a belt or hitching by the person. The bi-waisted trousers have front and back panels with respective waistbands located such that the front waistband is paral... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5136722 | Pants for a pilot The stressing of zippers for closing leg portions of pilot's pants having integrated an inflatable bladder and having two leg portions that can be opened and closed by zippers extending in a longitudinal direction from the thigh area to the shin area is a... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5136724 | Firefighter's combination trousers and safety harness A firefighter's trousers and safety harness combination. At least a portion of the safety harness is positioned and supported within the firefighter's trousers. Preferably, the safety harness has connection parts which are exterior of the firefighter's tr... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5134726 | Sports pants with protective pads A sports pants with protective pads includes a trunk and legs formed of elastically stretchable material with pockets in at least the hip and knee areas, and legs terminating in stirrup ends. At least groin, knee and hip areas have openable and closable p... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5131098 | Firefighter's Firefighter's trousers which can be donned by a firefighter wearing boots or the like. The trousers have a pair of leg portions. Each of the leg portions has sections which are separated before the trousers are donned. Then after the trousers are donned t... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5115518 | Article of dress An article of dress comprising a first piece and a second piece. The first piece comprises a leg covering of decorative light weight material having an upper edge and a lower edge, and capable of being worn as a single unit covering only one leg. The firs... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5113526 | Protective clothing incorporating coil springs Previous types of armored safety workwear are too inflexible, heavy or expensive to be useful. The present invention provides an article of protective clothing comprising a flexible supporting material and a plurality of elongated coil springs held in clo... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5109546 | Exercise suit with resilient reinforcing An exercise suit which has a pair of stretchable pants (20) and a pull-over top (44) with a lower body reinforcing segment (38) attached, in the middle only, to the pants and a upper body reinforcing collar (54) attached, in the middle only, to the top. A... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5105473 | Sports outfit having elastic fabric pockets for insertable resilient padding An athletic garment for use in different sports includes trousers and/or a coat which have outer pad pockets attached thereto, the pad pockets including hook and loop type closure tapes and being made of an elastic material so that pads for the protection... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5105474 | Wet suit with support belt, knee pads and shin guards A wet suit pant that provides an easy method for being pulled on or taken off. The pant legs have a zipper from the ankle opening to the thigh or crotch area which opens from the ankle. When the zippers are open, the tight fitting pant can be easily pulle... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5097535 | Garment for use in health care situations A garment resembles pajamas and includes a shirt which has openable sleeves and pants which have openable legs. The sleeves and legs are openable for the entire length thereof so some or all of the wearer's limbs and body can be exposed for providing heal... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5095544 | Protective chaps The invention is a design of protective chaps to be worn over trousers to protect the user of a chain saw. The chaps are asymmetrical and angled to cover the left side of the user's right leg which is especially susceptible to injury.... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5093932 | Examination garment A garment for use in patient examinations where particular examinable areas remain covered until they are individually accessed or until the patient is placed in an examining position. The garment comprises an upper portion for receiving and covering the ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5090057 | Combined boots/turnout pant A combined turnout pant and boot provide an effectively continuous moisture barrier. Each pant leg includes a moisture barrier liner and may include a first cuff. To fasten the boot to the liner, a second cuff, which may be attached to the top of the boot... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5088116 | All weather garment system A self-contained clothing system comprising a foundation garment, typefied by a shirt-jacket and a pant, and several removable components, typefied by a hood, a sleeved yoke, and two chaps, which, all together and in conjunction with normal undergarments,... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5088128 | Drop down cuff arrangement for pant legs or sleeves A drop down cuff arrangement for pant legs or sleeves provides for lowering of a child's pant legs or sleeves and a cuff to cover the old seam so that it is no longer visible. The drop down cuff arrangement comprises a pant leg or sleeve having a high pos... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5084914 | Invalid garment An invalid garment made up of a shirt and trousers. The shirt has a slit down the back from the collar to the tail and a slit down each side from a waistband position to the tail. The trousers have the seat removed from the waistband to the crotch. The wa... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5081718 | Pants type garment having a seamless crotch A pants type garment is provided with a leg portion made from a substantially unitary stretchable piece of material which is symmetric about a center fold. Prior to being formed into the leg portion, said unitary piece of material defines a pattern contai... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5075902 | Shorts with detachable elastic belts at the cuffs having detachable weight compartments A weighted training garment comprising a pair of shorts having portions which surround each thigh area of the user supplied with weights contained in a cuff-like device. The shorts are constructed of a fabric having substantially greater stretch in a dire... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5072454 | Garments with appendage portions having extensible flexible joints A protective garment such as a coat or trousers adapted to be worn by firefighters and the like includes a torso-covering portion and an appendage-covering portion connected to the torso-covering portion, the appendage-covering portion having a generally ... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5068920 | Dry suit/water sport suit with reinforced seat A water sport suit for barefoot water skiing is made of waterproof material and has a back portion including a seat portion of a nylon fabric having an interior coating of polyurethane. A heat and stress resistant patch of nylon 1 neoprene or nylon 2 neop... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5058208 | Garment having seamless body A garment, such as a child's sleeper, having a body portion made of sheet material, without seams, and provided with a longitudinal opening and closure means therefor, such as a slide fastener. The longitudinal opening is for putting the garment on a chil... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5054127 | Detachable pocket system for garments and the like A system of interchangeable pockets. The system generally comprises a plurality of base pads attached to articles of clothing and a plurality of interchangeable pockets. The pockets of the system are made interchangeable by attaching a first type of faste... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5052058 | Shorts or skirts with inner slip Reference is made to shorts or little skirt with an integral inner slip in which the shorts or little skirt on the one side, and the inner slip on the other side, are knitted together as one piece along their waistbands. A double layer knitting manufactur... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5050244 | Firefighter's trousers with a selectively foldable torso section Trousers suitable for use by firefighters in firefighting comprise a pair of leg sections and a torso section. The top edge of the torso section extends substantially above the firefifhter's waist about the entire circumference of the firefighter's body. ... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5038408 | Work pants Pants for use when performing work in which sitting and kneeling take place frequently, as in roofing work, the pants having effective special construction in the seat and knee areas.... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5036548 | Firefighter's combination trousers and safety harness A firefighter's trousers and a safety harness combination garment. Preferably, the safety harness has connection parts which are connectable to secure the safety harness and the firefighter's trousers as a unit upon the firefighter who wears the garment.... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5035007 | Firefighter's trousers capable of receiving a booted foot Firefighter's trousers which can be donned by a firefighter wearing boots or the like. The trousers have a pair of leg portions. Each of the leg portions has sections which are separated before the trousers are donned. Then after the trousers are donned t... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5033126 | Leg warmers Leg warmers which include a panel having at least one layer of thermal insulation and a closure system. The panel is designated to wrap around the wearer's leg from foot to crotch, and the closure system provides an essentially moisture and airtight seam ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5033123 | Stretchable garment There is disclosed a garment including a seat section and a pair of legs depending from the seat section in the form of trousers, and, optionally, a jacket extending up from the trousers to form a combination. The trousers have a front panel and a rear pa... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5033117 | Exercise garment A unitary full body exercise suit is disclosed. The invention is a one piece garment including a pair of shorts with two thigh portions for covering at least part of the thigh of a user integrally connected to an upper body portion which covers a substant... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5033124 | Zipperless chaps A pair of chaps for use in riding a saddled horse comprising a sheet of material made from neoprene between 1/8 and 1/4 inch in thickness in which VELCRO strips are used on the leg portions to wrap around each leg and VELCRO strips are employed on the wai... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5031242 | Firefighter's turnout apparel A firefighter's turnout apparel comprises a coat and a pair of pants, wherein the elbow joint and the knee joint sections are formed to include bellows at the bend of the joints for increased protection, flexion range, and comfort. The bellows interconnec... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5027438 | Operating room clothing with coated fabric A system of operating room garments including two-component scrub pants with an elastic waist band and elastic bands in the mid-thigh area to define a containment zone between the two and knit cuffs at the ankle area, to be worn under a tabard for maximum... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5022096 | Waterproof breathable wader A multicomponent, waterproof, breathable wader comprising right and left panels, each panel having a shape of a legging with an upper and lower region, the upper regions of the right and left panel joined together at a seam running from front to back, mea... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5016284 | Lockable clothing The present invention relates to an improved locking arrangement for clothing. In one aspect of the invention, a garment includes an eyelet operatively associated with a major portion of the garment. An elongated locking device, such as a lockable cable, ... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5010596 | Conformable weighted conditioning garment A garment is provided for improving physical conditioning. The garment is formed with shorts having thigh encasing leg sections extending downwardly from a waist to surround and resiliently conform to the thighs of a wearer. A plurality of pouches are def... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5010595 | Separable pants with integral underpants A woman's trouser (10) having an outer ply (120 and an integral inner lining (13) sewn to the interior of the trouser. A releasable seam (11) is provided in both the inner lining and the outer ply to allow the wearer to open the crotch portion (18) and se... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5008962 | Easy to fasten trousers Trousers include two selectively openable seams which extend from the upper edge to the hem edge of the trousers, the selectively openable seams being positioned in such a way as to be only minimally visible as the trousers are worn. Each of the two front... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4993077 | All weather garment An insulated all weather garment in male and female configuration is disclosed which includes an internal waterproof layer having sealed stitching protecting the upper legs and lower torso of a wearer from moisture penetrating from the outdoor atmosphere.... | 02/19/1991 |
