Disposable surgical gown of back-closable type

• US 20020095709A1
• Filed: 01/25/2002
• Published: 07/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Inventors: Fujikawa, Michiyo, Saito, Akiko
• Granted Patent: US 6,564,386 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/51
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1209 Surgeons' gowns or dresses
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/44 Donning facilities
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4088 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4093 Looped strap

Abstract

A disposable surgical gown of back-closable type includes a basic body composed of a front body, first and second rear bodies separated from each other and a pair of sleeves. The first and second rear bodies are in advance developed in a circumferential direction and folded back onto the front body so that free side edge regions of the rear bodies lie on the outer surface of the front body. The free side edge regions are connected to each other by a tape member which has its transversely opposite side regions bonded to the respective free side edge regions at longitudinally middle zones thereof so as to extend in the circumferential direction and a perforation extending in a longitudinal direction between the opposite side regions along which perforation 16 the tape member may be cut off in two in the circumferential direction.

Claims

1. A disposable surgical gown of back-closable type comprising:

a basic body composed of a front body, first and second rear bodies separated from each other in a circumferential direction with respect to a wearer'"'"'s torso;

a pair of sleeves connected to a pair of shoulder regions of said basic body, respectively;

said gown being offered in a state prior to actual use thereof such that said first and second rear bodies are developed in said circumferential direction so as to be spaced from each other and folded back onto said front body so that respective free side edge regions of said rear bodies extend in a longitudinal direction lie on a side of an outer surface of an front body; and

said free side edge regions being connected to each other by a tape member extending in said circumferential direction and having its transversely opposite side regions bonded to said free side edge regions at longitudinally middle zones of said free side edge regions wherein a perforation extends across said tape member in said longitudinal direction between said transversely opposite side regions so that said tape member is separated along said perforation in said circumferential direction.

2. The surgical gown according to claim 1, wherein said tape member has a transversely middle zone extending in said circumferential direction between said transversely opposite side regions and, on both sides of said middle zone, a pair of perforations extend in said longitudinal direction so that said middle zone is cut off from said transversely opposite side regions along said perforations.

3. The surgical gown according to claim 1, wherein said gown is provided with a female fastener member and a male fastener member adapted to be detachably engaged with each other to fasten said first and second rear bodies together and wherein said female fastener member is attached to said basic body at an appropriate location in its longitudinally middle region while said male fastener member is attached to one of the transversely opposite side regions of said tape member.

4. The surgical gown according to claim 2, wherein said female fastener member is one of a hook member and a loop member constituting together a mechanical fastener and said male fastener member is the other.