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The present invention relates to an assembly of a garment and an electronic device, which device may, for example comprise a one- or two-way radio or a record player device, for example an analogue or digital cassette player, or a compact disc player.
In recent years, small, readily portable personal radios, cassette players and compact disc players have become readily available, and are customarily utilized by attaching them to a belt or other item of clothing worn by the user, or placing them in a pocket in an article of clothing worn by ~ the user, and by employing ear-phones to enable the user to `1 hear sounds reproduced by the radio, cassette player or compact disc player.
However, the disadvantage of such an arrangement is that the conductor wires connecting the radio, cassette player or compact disc player to the earphones, and the ~ earphones themselves, are cumbersome and unsightly and are .' ; generally somewhat inconvenient to use.
. 20 It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel aqsembly of a garment and an electronic device which avoids the use of such external conductors and earphones.
According to the present invention, there is provided a garment and electronic device assembly comprising a garment, an electronic audio device within the garment, manually operable control means for controlling the operation ~`:
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201~104 of the electronic audio device, the manually operable control means being operationally accessible at a surface of the garment, and conductor means concealed between fabric layers ,.
of -the garment for connecting the electronic audio device to the manually operable control means and to the loudspeaker.
,Preferably, the control means are exposed at an exterior surface of the garment.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the :, electronic audio device is a radio, and the garment is also .:..
provided with a record playing device, e.g. a cassette player ' ;!
or a CD player, the radio being connec-ted by the conductor means to the microphone and the loudspeaker, and the record player device being also connected to the loudspeaker by the conductor means.
15The invention will be more readily understood from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof ~ 0 j ~j given, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: -Figure 1 shows a diagrammatic view of a jacket and electronic device assembly embodying the present invention;
Figure 2 shows a view taken in cross-section along the line 2-2 of Figure 1; and ":
Figure 3 shows a view taken in cross-section along the line 3-3 of Figure 1.
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201~104 Referring now to the drawing in greater detail, : reference numeral 10 generally indicates a jacke-t, which is provided with a ~ollar indicated generally by reference ~ numeral 12.
: 5 A pair of loudspeakers 14, and a microphone 16, are embedded in the collar 12 in such a manner as to be exposed the surface of the collar 12.
The jacket 10 also has left and right sleeves 18 and 20.
A pair of manually operable control devices 22 and 24 are secured at the outer surface of the jacket arms 18 and 20 respectively, at locations in which these control devices , 22 and 24 are readily accessible, on the forearms of the :; wearer of the jacket.
i 15 The control device 22 is connected by conductors 26.. ` to a cassette player 28, which is concealed within an inner pocket 30 formed in the jacket. The cassette player is, in turn, connected by conductors 32 to the loudspeakers 14.
The control device 24 is connected by conductors 34 to a two-way radio 36, which is concealed in an inner pocket r' 39 of the jacket 10.
The two-way radio 36 is, in turn, connected by ~ , conductors 38 to the microphone 16 and to the loudspeakers 14.
~`~ 25 When this jacket is in use, the user can use the ~`¦ fingers of his or her right hand to actuate the control device 22 and thereby to control the playing of a recording "I
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the loudspeakers 14 to be heard by the user.
The user can a]so use the fingers of his or her left hand to actuate the control device 24 to cause the radio to receive a radio signal, which is audibly reproduced by the loudspeakers 14, and also to transmit a radio slgnal corresponding to sounds picked up by the microphone 16.
The casse-tte player 28 may be replaced by a radio-cassette player or a CD player, and the radio 36, conductors 10 34 and 38 and the control device 24 may be omitted.
;~ Alternatively, the cassette player 28 may be omitted. The radio 36 may be replaced by a radio receiver, in which case the microphone 16 and conductors 38 may be omitted.
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