Claims
- 1. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments for a person exposed to physically precarious situations, providing protection to one's vulnerable body portions, including one's neck, breast, hips, knees and ankles, wherein said garments, each one having an outer annular, inflatable enclosure and being partially air-inflated, said enclosure having one or more inner noninflatable tubes with high pressure air for further inflating said enclosure when subjected to an impact, said tubes fracturing, thus allowing said high pressure to further inflate said enclosure.
- 2. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein said enclosure and each of said inner tubes being filled with helium gas.
- 3. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein said enclosure being fitted with strips of hook and loop ends for fastening together securely said enclosure around each of said body portions.
- 4. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein said enclosure having two portions, each of said portions having two ends, said portions tied together into a single annular enclosure by two wide elastic bands, each of said bands being firmly fastened to two of said ends.
- 5. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 4, wherein said enclosure has one portion and two ends, each of said ends having a single wide elastic band fastened to it, enabling said enclosure to be annular.
- 6. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein each of said non-inflatable tubes having a neck with an opening for introducing air to said tube, said neck including a check valve to prevent air from leaving said tube, except when air surrounding said neck is higher in pressure than the air inside each of said tubes.
- 7. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 6, wherein provision being provided that after each of said tubes having been filled with relatively high pressure air, when said check valve being opened the second time to relieve air, said valve remaining in an opened position.
- 8. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein said enclosure and said inner tubes being fire resistant.
- 9. Decorative bodily-injury protective garments in accordance with claim 1, wherein said enclosure is air inflatable only at its outside half portion, so as not to apply pressure to said person's body portions when further inflated by said inner noninflatable tubes.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This is a continuation-in-part of a previous application, and not one that is co-pending