Wearable Towel

• US 20090144874A1
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chazon Stein
• Original Assignee: Chazon Stein
• Inventors: Stein, Chazon
• Application Number:
  US12/200,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20090144874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/69
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 15/04 Garments convertible into other articles
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 7/008 Beach capes or robes
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/02 Towels made of paper A47K10/16; woven fabrics D03D; non-woven fabrics D04H

Abstract

A towel easily wrapped and fixed about a body of a wearer, the towel having a substantially planer rectangular main body having two openings in the main body configured for securing the towel to the body of the wearer using one arm.

Claims

1. A towel wrapped and fixed about a body of a wearer, the towel comprising:

a. a substantially planer rectangular main body having two substantially congruent horizontal edges and two substantially congruent vertical edges;

b. two securing means securing the main body to one arm of a user, wherein each securing means is positioned on, adjacent to, or within, the uppermost outermost subquadrant of two horizontal main body quadrants.

2. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are any of an opening in the main body, a strap, or combinations thereof.

3. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are straps releasably attached to said main body.

4. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are straps permanently attached to said main body.

5. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are on opposite ends of said main body.

6. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are on opposite ends of said main body separated from each other by a distance approximately two times the diameter of a human torso.

7. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are on opposite ends of said main body separated from each other a distance approximately the circumferecne of a human torso.

8. The towel of claim 1 wherein said towel wraps completely around the circumference of the trunk of the user.

9. The towel of claim 1 wherein said securing means are parallel and adjacent to the horizontal edge.

10. The towel of claim 1 wherein each securing means is congruently positioned relative to placement on the main body to a horizontal axis.

11. The towel of claim 1 wherein each securing means is congruently positioned relative to placement on the main body to a vertical axis.

12. The towel of claim 1 wherein each securing means is congruent relative to their distance from each of their respective adjacent horizontal and vertical sides of said towel body.

13. A method for wearing a towel comprising the steps of:

a. providing a towel according to claim 1;

b. securing the main body to a user by interacting one arm of a user with one securing means;

c. wrapping the main body of the towel around the body of the wearer;

d. securing a terminal side of the main body into a fixed position by placing the same arm from step b within the opposite opening securing means.

wherein said two openings are parallel and adjacent to a horizontal edge of said body, and further wherein said two openings are congruent relative to a horizontal axis, and congruent relative to a vertical axis.