Thomas L Fee

US Patent:

7596815, Oct 6, 2009

Filed:

Apr 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/796642

Inventors:

William L. Grilliot - Dayton OH, US
Mary I. Grilliot - Dayton OH, US
Patricia K. Waters - Tipp City OH, US
Douglas Sloan - Douglaston NY, US
John J. Reilly - Rockville Centre NY, US
Michael P. Harty - West Islip NY, US
Francis T. Haskell - West Islip NY, US
Thomas J. Fee - Hempstead NY, US

Assignee:

Morning Pride Manufacturing, L.L.C. - Dayton OH

International Classification:

A41D 13/00
A62B 35/00

US Classification:

2227, 2 81, 2 24

Abstract:

As worn by a firefighter or by an emergency rescue worker, a protective garment having a lower torso-covering portion and two leg-covering portions is equipped with a drag harness or drag harnesses. Each drag harness is accessible through an aperture or apertures somewhere in the lower torso-covering and leg-covering portions. In the illustrated and described embodiments, the protective garment is equipped with two knee pads. Each knee pad is manipulatable between a position wherein such knee pad covers the aperture or apertures in a given one of the leg-covering portions and positions wherein such knee pad does not cover the aperture or apertures in the given one of the leg-covering portions. Each knee pad may serve as a flap or may be completely detachable.