Hood Apparatus

Abstract

A hood apparatus has structure to be removably engagable to a jacket and further structure to help eliminate reduced user peripheral vision from the hood via the user turning their head side to side. The structure of the hood is to create a slackened removable engagement between the hood and the jacket. Further structure of the hood is to provide multiple axes of adjustability for the hood to form around a user's head in effect causing the hood move in lockstep to the user's side to side head movement. These multiple axes of adjustability include a circumferential elastic drawstring positioned about the user's face periphery and an added independent lateral elastic drawstring that is partially parallel to the circumferential elastic drawstring for about an upper one-third of the user's face periphery wherein the lateral elastic drawstring is routed laterally toward the rear of the hood.

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RELATED PATENT APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 816,734 filed on Apr. 27, 2013 by Sirena Rolfe of Westminster, Colorado, U.S.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates generally to an apparatus for an adjustable hood system for outerwear. More specifically, the present invention relates to the field of a portable, stowable, and removably engagable hood apparatus for providing optimal hood adjustability thus providing a custom type fit for the hood to accommodate various head sizes and shapes thus increasing the user's comfort and usability of the hood during extended time periods for sports activities outside than would normally be available with the built in hood that the user's desired coat would have included with it.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0003]A typical hood that is included with a coat or jacket is usually a design afterthought in the amount of design utility that the hood could possess, as typicall...

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Problems solved by technology

There are numerous problems with the above mentioned single drawstring adjustment hood system, primarily being that the hood has a substantially rigid attachment to the jacket about a long axis that goes through the user's head, neck, torso, and legs, such that when the user turns their head from side to side, the hood keeps the face opening periphery in a single orientation facing forward thus causing the user to lose their peripheral vision quickly as their head turns within the substantially rigid hood assembly, that is caused from the hood having a loose fit to an outer surface of the user's head with the face opening periphery being reduced in size or area resulting in limiting the user's access through the hood to the external environment to be facing forward only, thus being very inconvenient for the user in sporting activities wherein the user turns their head side to side quite frequently.

A way to help alleviate this problem is to leave the drawstring in a loose state, thus resulting in a larger face opening periphery to expand the ability of the user to have increased peripheral vision when turning their head side to side, however, doing this causes another problem in that the hood has opening gaps around the user face periphery that can destroy the function of the hood to help keep the user's head warm, in allowing inside of the hood cold wind, snow, sleet, or rain to enter the hood through the opening gaps around the user's face periphery, this issue is especially acute when the user is moving forward through the external environment when running, bicycling, and the like.

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