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By design sleeping bags there are:

blankets;
blankets with headrests;
blankets with hoods;
cocoons.

The most comfortable and versatile blankets with a hood.

According to heaters, they are divided into:

quilted wadded;
fur;
batting;
padding polyester (2,3,4 ply) according to the number of layers of padding polyester;
with fiber "HOLLOW FIBER";
with insulation "Tinsulate";
downy (2,4 ply) according to the number of layers of the fabric of the package;
from polartec.

Quilted wadded spaniki are used almost exclusively in manufacturing enterprises when organizing stationary camps, because. due to its weight and size, it is impossible to carry such a bag with you. Such a sleeping bag, if it is new and clean, allows you to feel quite comfortable at temperatures up to -20 C. It is similar in design to a conon with one central zipper, but instead of a zipper, it is covered with a canvas cover. A reliable thing, but it is almost impossible to use it.

Fur bags are similar in design to quilted ones, but much lighter. Fur, usually sheepskin, quickly becomes caked and the sleeping bag stops heating, especially from below. In addition, it tends to dampen, and it can be dried only in the conditions of a settlement. For a tourist, this type of sleeping bag is also unsuitable.

Batting sleeping bags - batting is used as a heater, which is the same as in the clothing industry. Such sleeping bags were widely made before the advent of synthetic winterizer. In terms of dimensions and weight characteristics, they, of course, surpass the "expeditionary" ones, but they are colder. I don’t know if they are still produced or if stores sell some leftovers, it’s not worth buying such bags, because. in all their characteristics, they are inferior to modern synthetic winterizers.

From what you should pay attention to when choosing a sleeping bag, the cheapest ones are synthetic winterizers, approximately:

2 layers - up to +5 degrees;
3 layers - up to -10 degrees;
4 layers - up to -20 degrees.

The conditions are ambiguous, so now I began to use the technical value "CLO". For orientation: a four-layer (according to the number of layers of the fabric of the package, and not according to the insulation) down sleeping bag (somewhere up to -45 gr.) Has CLO = 6.5-7

Sleeping bags made of synthetic winterizer are very good for the widest climatic range. Suffice it to say that they have been successfully tested both in the Brazilian selva and in the polar regions in winter. They are quite compact, light, and, most importantly, dry quickly even in the cold if you soak it. The latter property makes them indispensable in water trips.

Down sleeping bags have higher thermal insulation characteristics both per unit of weight and volume. So the simplest two-layer (by the number of layers of fabric) with 600 gr of stuffing will allow you to comfortably spend the night at a temperature of minus 10-15 degrees. Its weight will be about 900 gr. A similar synthetic winterizer will weigh 2.5 kg. You can pack such a downy sleeping bag made of "Pertex" if you wish in your jacket pocket. The downside of a downy sleeping bag - if you soak it - do not dry it until the end of the trip. A wet downy sleeping bag does not warm at all. The sleeping bag can be dried "on itself" overnight or even in dry frost during the day. It warms even when wet.

Hollow fiber is an analogue of synthetic winterizer, but only lighter. Holds heat and deformation better. Products from it are 1.5-3 times more expensive than similar synthetic winterizers.

Thinsulate is a submicroscopic fiber from which fabrics of the same name are made. Suffice it to say that the lightest "Light Loft" 10 mm thick is 2.3 times warmer than our synthetic winterizer! True, it is highly hygroscopic and the sleeping bag has to be squeezed very hard. Wet, it warms better than a dry synthetic winterizer. More expensive than synthetic winterizer 15 times. products are more expensive than down, but warmer with the same weight has CLO 8.5.

Materials

For synthetic winterizers, a completely good combination is the face (top) of thin nylon, the wrong side (bottom, inside) - of nylon or chintz. From chintz it is more pleasant to the body. It is possible to use a waterproof cover. It is not recommended to use sleeping bags with a face or underside made of moisture-proof fabric! The sweaty inside does not warm well, and what kind of joy is it to wake up wet?

Down and thinsulate sleeping bags are made:

cheap - made of nylon with PU (polyurethane) impregnation. This is a complete flaw, not a fabric for sleeping bags. Poorly passes moisture (sweats) in the cold it becomes a stake, the impregnation collapses after 2 years and the product begins to "etch" fluff on the surface.
more expensive - from the fabrics "Pertex", "Ultrex", Neilon tafetta SIRO (the latter is an analogue of our calender, but of better quality).

Polar sleeping bags are new and cool. A single-layer polar (polar-200) sleeping bag is compact and replaces a three-layer synthetic winterizer. Perfectly warms even wet and not squeezed out. Dries instantly. Do not sweat under any circumstances. In a three-layer one (one polar layer, one pertex and two layers of synthetic winterizer), I personally slept under an awning without a fire at -28 (minus twenty-eight) degrees. Not that it wasn't cold, but it was very warm and cozy. Then he slept at home on the floor at plus 20. And he also didn’t sweat, didn’t overheat - a unique thermoregulation, thanks to the unique transport properties of Pertex and Polartec.!

By design

A blanket

blanket - a simple blanket with a long zipper. Now it has become a good practice to make long detachable zippers that allow you to join two sleeping bags into one;
blanket with a hood - the same blanket, but in addition to it a hood is attached. allows you to cover your head and do without a hat. They release right and left for the ability to dock from two to one.

Blanket to hood

Blanket with headrest - an unfinished model of a blanket with a hood, without a placket that covers the face. Gathers around the head with a cap, and the muzzle, forehead, crown are naked.

Cocoon

It is a model narrowed at the bottom and extended upwards with a hood and a bottom. The most comfortable model. Varieties:

Cocoon "Egoist", with one central or side one-piece zipper.

Cocoon with one or two side detachable zippers for docking with other sleeping bags.

A quality sleeping bag is:

lack of "cold", those quilted through, seams
in expensive models, a strap covering the zipper,
in expensive models of cuffs that close the entrance to the sleeping bag.
in expensive models and in cocoons, there is a zipper at the bottom of the sleeping bag so that it can be turned inside out (with the inside) and dry faster (one layer of insulation dries faster than two!).
the absence of crooked lines and visible traces of making a technological hole, and in blankets there is a figured stitching on special quilting machines, which handicrafts, for example, Belarusians and some Moscow firms that order sleeping bags there in pursuit and cheapness, cannot afford.

After washing, the glued synthetic winterizer loses latex, respectively, elasticity, and the glue flows down to the bottom of the hung product and freezes there.

A synthetic winterizer with thermal fixation is more fluffy, but less elastic. At the same time, it retains its shape even after five washes.

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