Thomas Patrick Vickers

US Patent:

56782470, Oct 21, 1997

Filed:

Apr 1, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/625818

Inventors:

Thomas Wayne Vickers - Circleville OH

Assignee:

Columbus Industries Inc - Ashville OH

International Classification:

A41D 1300

US Classification:

2 69

Abstract:

Odor-absorbing articles of clothing particularly useful for hunting big game animals wherein the clothing incorporates an intermediate odor-absorbing layer or sheet of material comprising non-woven synthetic fibers impregnated with activated carbon powdered particles. The relatively low cost odor-absorbing sheet possesses a flexible, readily pliant characteristic which permits its incorporation into an article of hunting clothing to preserve the required comfort to the wearer. The odor-absorbing sheet includes a binder which upon drying, adheres the carbon particles to the synthetic fibers without causing the sheet to become stiff and unpliant. The preferred activated carbon loading is about 100 to 200 weight percent of the weight of the non-woven sheet material.

US Patent:

55851070, Dec 17, 1996

Filed:

May 15, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/441020

Inventors:

Thomas W. Vickers - Circleville OH

Assignee:

Columbus Industries, Inc. - Ashville OH

International Classification:

A61L 216

US Classification:

424402

Abstract:

A method of removing human associated scents from articles of hunting clothing prior to wearing such articles during a hunting interval for big game animals includes placing such articles of hunting clothing in close association with a sheet of material impregnated with activated carbon within an air impervious resealable container prior to hunting. The clothing remains in the container overnight, or at least for a time sufficient to permit the human associated scent emanating from the clothing to be adsorbed by the activated carbon impregnated in the sheet of material placed in close association with the clothing. The articles of clothing may then be removed from the container and sheet of material and worn during the next hunting interval significantly diminishing an additional source of human associated scents which may be detected and thus alarm a big game animal. After the hunting interval is completed, the hunting clothing may be again deodorized in the same manner prior to the next time of use.