Protective supplied breathing air garment
Abstract
A breathing air garment for isolating a wearer from hostile environments containing toxins or irritants includes a suit and a separate head protective enclosure or hood engaging a suit collar in sealing attachment. The hood and suit collar are cylindrically shaped and dimensioned to enable the wearer to withdraw his hands from the suit sleeves to perform manual tasks within the hood interior. Breathing air is supplied from an external air line with an air delivery hose attached to the hood interior. The hose feeds air into an annular halo-like fiber-filled plenum having spaced discharge orifices attached to the hood top wall. A plurality of air exhaust/check valves located at the suit extremities cooperate with the hood air delivery system to provide a cooling flow of circulating air from the hood throughout the suit interior. A suit entry seal provided on the suit rear torso panel permits access into the suit and is sealed with an adhesive sealing flap.
- Inventors:
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- Lakewood, CO
- Golden, CO
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Rockwell International Corp., Canoga Park, CA (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 865077
- Patent Number(s):
- 4458680
- Application Number:
- 06/383,048
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A62 - LIFE-SAVING A62B - DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP03533
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- protective; supplied; breathing; air; garment; isolating; wearer; hostile; environments; containing; toxins; irritants; suit; separate; head; enclosure; hood; engaging; collar; sealing; attachment; cylindrically; shaped; dimensioned; enable; withdraw; hands; sleeves; perform; manual; tasks; interior; external; line; delivery; attached; feeds; annular; halo-like; fiber-filled; plenum; spaced; discharge; orifices; top; wall; plurality; exhaust; check; valves; located; extremities; cooperate; provide; cooling; flow; circulating; throughout; entry; seal; provided; rear; torso; panel; permits; access; sealed; adhesive; flap; cylindrically shaped; check valve; check valves; hostile environment; hostile environments; top wall; valves located; breathing air; cooling flow; environments containing; protective enclosure; circulating air; seal provide; air exhaust; air garment; adhesive sealing; adhesive seal; discharge orifices; /128/2/55/96/181/
Citation Formats
Childers, Edward L, and von Hortenau, Erik F. Protective supplied breathing air garment. United States: N. p., 1984.
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Childers, Edward L, & von Hortenau, Erik F. Protective supplied breathing air garment. United States.
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"Protective supplied breathing air garment". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/865077.
@article{osti_865077,
title = {Protective supplied breathing air garment},
author = {Childers, Edward L and von Hortenau, Erik F},
abstractNote = {A breathing air garment for isolating a wearer from hostile environments containing toxins or irritants includes a suit and a separate head protective enclosure or hood engaging a suit collar in sealing attachment. The hood and suit collar are cylindrically shaped and dimensioned to enable the wearer to withdraw his hands from the suit sleeves to perform manual tasks within the hood interior. Breathing air is supplied from an external air line with an air delivery hose attached to the hood interior. The hose feeds air into an annular halo-like fiber-filled plenum having spaced discharge orifices attached to the hood top wall. A plurality of air exhaust/check valves located at the suit extremities cooperate with the hood air delivery system to provide a cooling flow of circulating air from the hood throughout the suit interior. A suit entry seal provided on the suit rear torso panel permits access into the suit and is sealed with an adhesive sealing flap.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
month = {Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 1984}
}