KLEIDUNGSSTÜCK, INSBESONDERE SCHUTZWESTE, UND REISSVERSCHLUSSANORDNUNG

Clothing, in particular protective vest, and zipper assembly

The invention relates to a garment, in particular a protective vest, which is adjustable in size, wherein at least an outer zipper is provided with two rows of teeth, wherein the garment is a in a closed state of the outer slide fastener, a first size and in an open condition of the outer slide fastener has second size, the first size is smaller than the second size, and wherein the rows of teeth are held together at a distance by material in the opened state of the outer slide fastener, which is covered in the closed state of the outer slide fastener from the outer zipper at least partially. Further, the invention relates to a zipper arrangement.

Adjustable size garments are known in numerous variants. This also applies to protective vests. The term "body armor" is herein to be understood in its most general sense. It includes safety vests, safety vests, work vests, etc., to name just a few examples of body armor. A size adjustment is made with known today protective vests for example by available hook and loop fasteners that can be fixed in different positions. It is a viable solution in itself, but such protective vests are comparatively expensive to manufacture. Furthermore, the adjustment of Velcro fasteners may be difficult or tedious. Also Velcro fasteners tend under adverse conditions cause them to lose over time their ability to function.

The documents DE 10 2004 031 654 A1, DE 298 02 758 U1, DE 102 49 196 A1, US 2008/0086794 A1 and CN 205106439 U also describe garments which are adjustable in size using zippers. The object underlying the invention is to provide an in size adjustable garment provided that is easy in its production, which can be converted into different size settings easily and which shows no or almost no wear in the region of the means for size adjustment.

This object is achieved with the features of the independent claim.

Advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims.

The invention is based on the generic variable in its size garment characterized in that an inner slide fastener is provided with two rows of teeth which is at least partially hidden in the closed state of the outer slide fastener through the outer zipper and exposed in the open state of the outer slide fastener, and that the garment in a closed state of the inner slide fastener, the second size and in an opened state of the inner slide fastener has a third size, said second size is smaller than the third size, and wherein in the opened state of the inner slide fastener, the tooth rows of the inner slide fastener are held together at a distance by material which is covered in the closed state of the inner slide fastener of the inner zipper at least partially. In the present case, the size adjustment is therefore made by several zippers are available. The production of garments with zippers is easy and inexpensive. Furthermore, with appropriate quality zippers have an extremely long life. The clothing piece can be adjusted on the basis of the present invention easily in size. You only have to open a zipper and already a bigger piece of clothing available. Conversely, only to close a zipper to shrink the garment. Especially with body armor is the easy size adjustment of particular advantage as protective vests worn over other clothing that have different volume. In summer you may wearing a protective vest just over a shirt, so that a small amount of body armor sufficient, while it may be necessary in winter to put on the vest, for example via a bulky down jacket. Besides the advantage that with the different sizes of the same protective vest different clothing is allowed at the same carrier, it is also true that one and the same protective vest for people can be used with different dress sizes. This streamlines the manufacturing process, and it provides significant simplifications in the warehousing and distribution available. In the inventive garment may be an identification vest or a waistcoat with a starting number, such as for competitions, for example, be also. Is that a plurality of slide fasteners exceed each other is of particular advantage, namely an outer and an inner zip. After the outer zipper has been opened for the transition from a first size (from the smallest size) to a second size, can be passed to a third size (larger than the second size), by also the inside zipper is opened. Thus are not only two different sizes of clothing for Verfü- supply. "Obscured" by the term is no indication in the strictly geometrical sense, so that about the zipper in any projection would have to be congruent with the row of teeth. Rather, it is meant that the row of teeth is obscured, so whatever. This applies to all embodiments of the present disclosure. Furthermore, it can be provided that in the opened state of the outer slide fastener and in the opened state of the inner slide fastener at least one of the rows of teeth of the outer slide fastener with at least one of the rows of teeth of the inner slide fastener can be coupled in the manner of a zipper. By coupling a row of teeth of the outer slide fastener with the further row of teeth of the inner slide fastener further size rather can be provided. This is an intermediate size.

The invention may be trained in such a way that a further internal zipper is provided with two rows of teeth or that a plurality of further inner zippers are provided with two rows of teeth provided circuits, wherein each adjacent inner zippers are in a relationship to each other as the outer zipper and inner zipper which immediately follows the outer zipper. therefore one has, for example, exactly an outer and an inner zipper, so are solely by the opening of the outer and the opening of the inner slide fastener, two additional variables besides the smallest size with a closed outer zipper adjustable. one then the rows of teeth of the zips combined with each other, so at least one additional size of the garment can be provided. Overall, a number of superimposed zippers can be provided. The opening of the next slide fastener which has just been uncovered by opening of the overlying slide fastener, then generates a further size of the garment. The rows of teeth of the individual zippers, all or in part, in the manner of a zip fastener be mutually coupled so that intermediate sizes can be produced. For this purpose must be "identical" to be coupled together rows of teeth. But it is also possible to provide different zippers, in which the rows of teeth are all or partly constructional equal to or coupled. For example, a wide zip can be used outside while inside zippers are narrower. In this way material is saved, and the inner or zippers wear less.

It can also be provided that one or more rows of teeth are provided instead of one or more of the inner zip fasteners which can be coupled not necessarily in the manner of a slide fastener with each other, said rows of teeth, however, with at least one row of teeth of the outer slide fastener and / or an internal can be coupled zipper like a zipper. If one has, for example, with an arrangement of one outer zipper to do any inner zipper and a single row of teeth, which is covered with a closed outer zipper of this completely or partially, then by opening the outer slide fastener, a transition from held a small size to a large size. As no other zip exists, no even larger size can be produced. However, the row of teeth inside can be coupled with one of the rows of teeth of the outer slide fastener. This gives rise to an intermediate size. Several rows of teeth may be arranged side by side, so as to provide a plurality of intermediate sizes.

Furthermore, it can be provided that through the or zippers and / or rows of teeth is provided a zipper arrangement and that at several points of the garment zipper assemblies are created. For example, it may be provided with protective vests that a respective zipper assembly is arranged on each side of the vest. In this connection it may be useful that the zipper assemblies are constructed at least partially identical. All zipper assemblies then have the same functionality.

But it may also be useful that the zipper assemblies are at least teilwei- structured differently se. When provided laterally zipper assemblies to protective vests, for example, one of the sides may be constructed more complex than the other. This is particularly useful when the vest has other functional properties which may set conditions for the interpretation of zipper assemblies. The invention also consists in a fastener assembly which is suitable for use in a garment according to the invention and which is defined in connection with the inventive piece of clothing.

So with the invention, the known principle of size adjustment is extended advantageously by zip fastener. This is achieved by one or more internal zippers or by one or more inner rows of teeth or by combinations thereof. The inner rows of teeth, whether they are single rows of teeth or tooth rows of zippers can be combined with other teeth zippers, which presupposes an identical design of the teeth. However, this is not necessary if they are not the setting of intermediate sizes.

The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings with reference to preferred embodiments. Figure 1 shows an inventive garment in a first state;

Figure 2 shows an inventive garment in a second state;

Figure 3 shows an inventive garment in a third state;

Figure 4 shows an inventive garment in a fourth state.

Figure 1 shows an inventive garment 10 in a first state. When the garment 10 is a vest. The garment 10 is provided with a zipper assembly, wherein in the view in FIG 1, only an outer zipper 12 is recognizable. Other components of the zipper assembly are covered by the zipper 12 or the zipper 12 adjacent to the material of the garment 10th The zipper 12 has two rows of teeth 14, 16, an end piece 28 and a slider 30. The zipper extends from one leg holes of the garment 10 to the bottom edge of the garment 10. In the closed state, the slider 30 is disposed on the arm opening, while the end piece 28 located at the bottom. It is also possible to apply the zipper 12 the other way around, so that the end piece 28 is located on the arm opening and the slider 30 located at the bottom of the garment. Upon opening the outer zipper 12 by moving the slider 30 to the tip 28, so the image, which is shown in Figure 2 is obtained. The rows of teeth 14, 16 of the outer zipper 12 now have a spacing, wherein they are connected by material 18 and are held together at a distance. A special feature of the present example is that the material has a further inner zipper 20 between the rows of teeth 14, 16 eighteenth This in turn has two rows of teeth 22, 24, an end piece 32 and a slider 34. The inner zipper 20 is sewn with the same orientation in the garment 10, as the outer zipper 12. This is by no means necessary. Any orientation and any combination of orientations are within the scope of the present invention.

Comparing the garment in its two states, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, it can be seen that the garment 10 in the two states has a different size, wherein the garment in the state shown in Figure 1, in which the outer zipper 12 is closed, is smaller than in the state ACCORDING Figure 2, in which the outer zipper is opened 12th

Figure 3 shows a further state of the garment 10. Here, the inner zipper 20 with its teeth 22, 24 is open. Also, the rows of teeth 22, 24 of the inner slide fastener 20 are spaced apart by material 26 th held together. With the example shown in Figure 3 state a third size of the garment 10 is now realized, in addition to the two sizes shown in Figures 1 and 2 are.

It is now also possible to implement with the present zipper assembly other sizes. This is explained in connection with FIG. 4 In the DAR posed here state the row of teeth 24 of the inner slide fastener 20 is coupled to the row of teeth 14 of the outer slide fastener. The result is thus an intermediate size between the sizes comprising the garment 10 according to FIGS. 1 and 2 it would also be possible, starting from the state as shown in Figure 3, to couple the row of teeth 22 of the inner slide fastener 20 with the row of teeth 16 of the outer slide fastener 12th Referring to Figure 2, a further facet of the present invention can be explained. 2 shows an entire zipper 20 which is exposed when the outer zipper is opened 12th but it would also be possible to provide only a single row of teeth on, for example, the point of the whole zipper 20th This single row of teeth can be then coupled with one of the rows of teeth 14, 16 of the outer zipper 12 to also as to produce an intermediate size.

A further variant of the present invention may be illustrated with reference to FIG. 3 Here it is provided that the material has no specific characteristics between the rows of teeth 22, 24 of the zipper inne- ren 26th It may be here simply to the textile material of which also the other garment 10 is completely or partially. However, it would also be possible to provide, in turn, shows yet another zipper in the area of ​​the material 26, which is then available to the inner zipper 20 with the rows of teeth 22, 24 in a functional relationship, such as the inner zipper 20 may be the outer zipper 12. Similarly, of course, only a single row of teeth or more independent rows of teeth between the tooth rows 22, 24 of the inner slide fastener 20 can be provided.

The nesting of zippers or rows of teeth so described may be continued as desired, so that, ultimately a plurality of slide fasteners total forms the zipper assembly.

The zipper arrangement described can be offered as a whole textile component. The textile component is then sewn as a single zipper into a garment.

In the above described embodiment, only a single zipper assembly is shown. Preferably is also located on the other side of the garment, namely below the other armhole a zipper assembly that can be constructed identical or different from the described zipper arrangement. It would also be conceivable to provide zipper assemblies between the lower edge of the garment and head hole, be it in the chest and / or back. Zipper assemblies can also be horizontal, for example between the two arm holes. This reduces the length of a small piece can-making vary. The features disclosed in the foregoing description, in the drawings and in the claims the invention may, both separately and in any combination essential to the realization of the invention.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10 garment

12 outer zipper

14 teeth

16 teeth

18 material

20 inside zip

22 teeth

24 teeth

26 material

28 end piece

30 slide

32 end piece

34 pusher