U.S. patent number 3,670,339 [Application Number 05/101,600] was granted by the patent office on 1972-06-20 for hockey uniform garment.
Invention is credited to Barbara T. Cooper, Penny W. Kodner, Lynn F. Pollak.
United States Patent |
3,670,339 |
Cooper , et al. |
June 20, 1972 |
HOCKEY UNIFORM GARMENT
Abstract
An athletic uniform garment integrating socks with underpants
and eliminating separate socks held up by garter belts. Knee and
shin guard pockets in the integrated garment.
Inventors: |
Cooper; Barbara T. (St. Louis,
MO), Pollak; Lynn F. (St. Louis, MO), Kodner; Penny
W. (St. Louis, MO) |
Family
ID: |
22285497 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/101,600 |
Filed: |
December 28, 1970 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/22; 2/240;
2/24 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D
13/065 (20130101); A41D 13/0593 (20130101); A63B
71/1225 (20130101); A41D 1/08 (20130101); A63B
2102/24 (20151001); A63B 2071/125 (20130101); A63B
2071/1258 (20130101); A63B 2208/12 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A41D
13/05 (20060101); A41D 1/08 (20060101); A41D
13/06 (20060101); A41D 1/06 (20060101); A41d
013/06 () |
Field of
Search: |
;2/22,23,24,2,227,79,80,224,239,240,242 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Foreign Patent Documents
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1,518,036 |
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Feb 1968 |
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FR |
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1,564,324 |
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Mar 1969 |
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FR |
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Primary Examiner: Boler; James R.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A uniform garment comprising an integral combination of lower
torso cover and socks, the lower torso cover comprising fabric for
covering a wearer's torso from the waist downward including two leg
portions terminating in lower edges located above the ankles of the
wearer, the socks terminating in upper edges located adjacent the
knees of the wearer and extending downwardly therefrom surrounding
the leg portions, and stitch lines connecting the socks to the leg
portions and defining pockets between the socks and the leg
portions for receiving resilient pads.
2. The uniform garment of claim 1 wherein the socks have team
identifying color codes.
3. The uniform garment of claim 1 wherein the pockets are
accessible from the outside of the uniform garment.
4. The uniform garment of claim 1 including loops sewn to the lower
edges of the socks, the lower edges of the socks being open at the
ankles.
5. The uniform garment of claim 1 including stitching lines
connecting the socks and the leg portions adjacent the entire
peripheries of the lower edges of the leg portions.
6. The uniform garment of claim 1 wherein the stitch lines include
vertical stitching at the two sides of each leg portion.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
This invention is a uniform garment particularly for ice hockey
players, but adaptable to other athletic uniforms. The basic
purpose of the uniform garment is to provide an inexpensive
composite of certain required parts of a uniform while eliminating
some difficult to manage and sometimes distasteful accessories now
required in conventional uniforms. Specifically, in a conventional
ice hockey uniform, there are separate pants and separate socks or
leggings. The socks are held up by a garter belt that is worn
around the waist of the hockey player and has depending straps with
sock supporters at their lower ends for clamping to the socks.
This kind of uniform arrangement is worn both by adult professional
and amateur hockey players and by junior and child hockey players.
While the adult hockey players may have resigned themselves to the
nuisance of donning a garter belt and patiently clamping its
supporters to the hockey socks and while they may be immune to any
adverse mental association with garter belts, such is not true of
youths and children. Clamping the socks to a garter belt requires
enough dexterity that some younger hockey players cannot even do
it, and their coaches must spend distracting time doing this part
of dressing a hockey team, player by player. Young people who are
participating in what is generally considered to be a manly sport,
having reached the mental and physical age of desire to participate
in it and certainly having passed the age of wanting to succumb to
being even partially dressed, are seriously deflated in their egos
and prides. These young players are also sensitive to the
association of garter belts and stocking supporters with feminine
underwear, an association which they think detracts from their
manhood. Even the adult hockey players who are able to don this
apparatus are annoyed with the nuisance.
This invention solves all of the foregoing difficulties by
providing an integral garment that includes underpants, the hockey
socks or leggings and that incorporates pockets for receiving knee
and shin pads. The socks are made of the usual knit construction
with color stripes to identify members of a team as desired.
Underpants of any desired form, extending from the waist, have leg
portions that are sewed to the socks above the ankles around the
entire peripheries of the underpants and socks. The rear halves of
the socks adjacent their upper edges are sewed to the underpants.
Vertical stitching lines at the inner and outer sides of the socks
also join them to the underpants and define the sides of a front
pocket between each sock and the adjacent underwear leg for
receiving knee and shin guards. The upper fronts of the socks are
left unstitched to the underpants to provide access to the pockets.
This composite garment is thus easily donned just as a pair of long
underwear pants after which the hockey shorts and the rest of the
uniform are donned. The knee and shin pads can be inserted either
before or after donning the uniform garment.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of the hockey uniform garment;
FIG. 2 is a rear elevation view of the hockey uniform garment;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view in section along the line 3--3 of FIG.
1;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view in section along the line 4--4 of FIG.
1;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view in section along the line 5--5 in FIG.
1;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view in section along the line 6--6 in FIG.
1;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a knee and shin pad.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
This uniform garment 10 has underpants 11 joined to socks or
leggings 12 and 13. The underpants 11 are of any desired
construction including, for example, an elastic waistband 14, the
usual portion 15 covering the lower torso, and leg portions 16 and
17. For this uniform garment, the leg portions 16 and 17 extend to
lower edges 18 and 19 that terminate above the ankles of the
wearer. The socks 12 and 13 are of onventional knit construction
having upper edges 20 and 21 located somewhat above the knees of
the wearer and extending downwardly to lower edges 22 and 23 above
the shoe level. Elastic loops 24 and 25 into which the wearer's
feet are inserted are sewed by single or double stitching 26 to the
socks 12 and 13 adjacent their lower edges 22 and 23. The socks 12
and 13 may be provided with color stripes 27 and differently
colored areas 28 for team identification, and with elastic sections
29 above the ankles.
Adjacent their lower edges 18 and 19, the leg portions 16 and 17 of
the underpants 11 are sewed about the entire peripheries of the
socks 12 and 13 as indicated by the stitching 30. The leg portions
16 and 17 are also joined vertically to the sides of the socks 12
and 13 as indicated by lines of stitching 31 and 32. Finally, the
leg portions 16 and 17 are joined to the socks 12 and 13 adjacent
the upper edges, but around the back only as indicated by the
stitching 33 in FIGS. 2 and 6 extending between the vertical lines
of stitching 31 and 32. This leaves an unstitched gap 34 between
the front halves of the socks 12 and 13 and the respective leg
portions 16 and 17, providing access to pockets 35 defined by the
leg portions 16 and 17 and the leggings between the lines of
stitching 30, 31, and 32. These pockets 35 receive the usual
resilient protective knee and shin pads 36.
A h ckey player can don this uniform garment just about like
donning a pair of pants. He steps into the waist and pulls the
underwear and sock garment up, stepping into the foot loops 24 and
25. He can then insert the pads 36 into the pockets 35 unless he
has already done so. He then dons the rest of the uniform after
which the outer hockey shorts (not shown) cover the upper edges 20
and 21 of the socks 12 and 13. Since the use of this uniform
garment is so easy, young hockey players have no trouble with it
and adult hockey players can put it on much more readily. The
entire garment is launderable, and its construction is simple and
inexpensive.
Various changes and modifications may be made within this invention
as will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Such
changes and modifications are within the scope and teaching of this
invention as defined by the claims appended hereto.
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