PROTECTION SUIT COMPRISING A PONCHO-LIKE PART AND A PROTECTIVE HOOD JOINED THERETO, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH A PROTECTION SUIT

摘要

A PROTECTION SUIT COMPRISING A PONCHO-LIKE PART AND A PROTECTIVE HOOD JOINED THERETO, AND ALSO TO A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH A PROTECTION SUIT. A protection suit for civilian or military use comprises a poncho-like part and a protective hood joined thereto. The poncho-like part of the protection suit consists of a flat sheet of thermoplastic material folded double and provided with an opening in the front sheet portion. The protective hood is prefabricated out of two flat sheet portions of thermorplastic joined together along a continuous weld seam and having openings. The opening in the back sheet portion of the protective hood is the same shape and size as the opening in the poncho-like part and the defining edges of the two openings are welded together by means of a continuous seam. The protection suit can be manufactured entirely in a two-dimensional plane.