Self heat clothing and blankets

Abstract

A self-heat article of clothing to be worn by a person to keep warm during an emergency situation which cannot be inadvertently removed until the emergency situation is over, and a self-heat blanket to cover a person or persons while sleeping, in which the articles of clothing and blankets have a self heating system incorporated therein. The self-heating system includes self-heat disks held in closely spaced apart relationship between an upper and lower layer of fabric material which begin to generate heat when exposed to oxygen in the air. The self-heat disks include a mixture of iron powder, charcoal powder, table salt or sodium chloride mixed together with water, cut into disks having an area dimension of about one square inch each. Airtight enclosures are provided to hold the self-heat articles of clothing and the self-heat blankets to prevent exposure to air and the oxygen in the air until they are to be used. When removed from the airtight enclosures, the self-heat disks become exposed to the oxygen in the air and begin the chemical reaction that generates the heat.

1 . An article of clothing, comprising an integrally formed clothing item having a self-heat system throughout all parts of said integrally formed clothing item, wherein said self-heat system provides a rise in temperature throughout all parts of said article of clothing when exposed to the air, no parts of said article of clothing being removable therefrom and re-attachable thereto.  
   
   
       2 . An article of clothing, comprising an integrally formed clothing item having a self-heat system throughout all parts of said integrally formed clothing item wherein said self-heat system provides a rise in temperature throughout all parts of said article of clothing when exposed to oxygen, no parts of said article of clothing being removable therefrom and re-attachable thereto.  
   
   
       3 . An article of clothing as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said self-heat system includes chemical materials in combination which when exposed to air create a chemical reaction that includes a rise in temperature.  
   
   
       4 . An article of clothing as set forth in  claim 3 , wherein said materials include iron, charcoal, sodium chloride and water.  
   
   
       5 . An article of clothing as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said article of clothing includes one or more portions in which the material of which said article of clothing is made including said self-heat system thereof completely surrounds one or more body parts such as an arm, a leg, the person's chest, the top portion of a person's head, and other respective portions of a person's body, with a continuously joined wall of such material, whereby the only way such article of clothing can be removed is by withdrawing the surrounded body part out from said continually joined wall of such material, whereby said article of clothing having said self-heat system cannot inadvertently fall away from such body portion it is intended to keep warm.