PROTECTIVE PANTS, SUCH AS FIREFIGHTER'S PANTS, WITH PUNCTURE-RESISTANT LAYERS AT BELOW-KNEE REGIONS OF LEG PORTIONS

摘要

A pair of protective pants, such as firefighter's pants or rescue provider'spants, has an upper portion, which when covers a lower region of a wearer'storso,and two leg portions, each of which when worn covers one of the wearer's legs.Each leg portion has an upper region, which extends downwardly from the upperportion, and a lower region, which extends upwardly from a lower end of suchlegportion toward the upper region and which terminates not higher than wheresuchleg portion when worn covers the wearer's knee. The pair of protective pants,atthe lower region of each leg portion but not elsewhere, has an outer layer ofpuncture-resistant material.