Silhouette Distorting Hunting Garment

Abstract

A garment to be worn while hunting is provided that is formed with an exterior surface having a base layer and an additional layer formed with individual sections that project away from the base layer to provide a three dimensional appearance to the garment. The sections are each formed with an irregular edge shaped similarly to items found in a natural environment to obscure the silhouette of the individual wearing the garment. Also, the colors of some of the sections are selected from those having wave lengths of between 590 to 700 nm, which are readily discernible by humans, but which the animals being hunted are much less sensitive to, rendering the garment inconspicuous to the animals.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001]This application claims priority from U.S. provisional application 61 / 084,147 filed on Jul. 28, 2008, the entirety of which is expressly incorporated herein.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002]The present disclosure is directed to a garment for hunting, and in particular, it is directed to a garment that conceals the hunter from the hunted prey while also easily making other hunters in the vicinity aware of the hunter's presence.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003]Typically, hunters attempt to conceal themselves in the hunting environment from the hunted animals. One known and often used means of concealment is to dress in camouflage clothing. The camouflage clothing typically includes colors and patterns that are common in the hunting environment (e.g., browns and greens) in order to enable the hunter wearing the clothing to blend into the hunting environment. However, when a number of hunters hunt in the same geographic area and because colors of this ...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a garment and a related method is provided that conceals the hunter from animals while at the same time makes the hunter easily identifiable by other hunters. The garment includes an exterior surface for the garment including a number of sections that are colored to be readily discernible to humans, but that are perceived to generally blend into the surrounding environment so as not to be easily discernible by humans or animals, and a number of sections that are colored to be readily discernible to humans, but that are perceived to generally blend into the natural environment by animals. Thus, the garment is capable of effectively concealing the hunter from animals while including sufficient conspicuous color to easily be seen by humans.

[0008]According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the sections on the exterior surface of the garment are formed to break-up or conceal the profile of the hunter from animals. The shape of the individual sections is selected to be sufficiently similar to the shape of various items located in the natural environment, such as leaves. This shape for the sections of the exterior surface effectively render the sections, and thus the garment / hunter part of the environment in which the hunter wearing the garment is located, such that the hunter wearing the garment is perceived as a part of the natural environment by the animal.

Problems solved by technology

However, when a number of hunters hunt in the same geographic area and because colors of this type also make it difficult to discern a hunter wearing clothing having these colors from the hunting environment or can cause the hunter to be mistaken for the animals being hunted, which often blend into the environment, there is an increased danger that a hunter dressed in camouflage might be mistaken by other hunters as an animal and injured.

As a result, due to the danger of camouflaged hunters being mistaken by other hunters as part of the environment or animals, safety regulations have been enacted requiring that hunters wear a certain amount of bright colored clothing (e.g., blaze orange) when hunting for certain types of animals in certain geographic areas.

Because of this, commercially available blaze orange hunting gear is designed specifically to be noticed by other hunters, and not typically designed to conceal the hunter from the hunted animals which can see blaze orange, but not as clearly as humans.

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