Hospital gown having fitting means

• US 3,921,221 A
• Filed: 05/24/1974
• Issued: 11/25/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Boundary Healthcare Products Corp.
• Original Assignee: Richard L. Zoephel
• Inventors: Zoephel, Richard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Application Number:
  US05/473,017
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 2/49R,50,51,76,80,111,114,211,220,DIG.7,338 156/183 161/128
• US Class Current: 2/51
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1209 Surgeons' gowns or dresses
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2200/10 Belts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 2/913 Chest encircling, e.g. shirt, vest

Abstract

A hospital gown has portions thereof encircling a wearer'"'"''"'"'s body which bear a cohesive-adhesive material to enable an adjustably snug fit.

Claims

1. In a hospital gown having an area which encircles a part of a wearer'"'"''"'"'s body in a given direction and is larger in size than necessary to encircle said part, which area requires a decrease in said size in said direction to provide close fitting to said part, the improvement comprising;

said area having means including a plurality of portions defining surfaces elongated throughout said given direction of encirclement, said portions bearing a cohesive-adhesive maTerial thereon, whereby by bringing any portion into contact with another portion they will cohere to each other to decrease the size of said area in said given direction thereby adjustably decreasing the size in said direction from said larger size to the smaller size required to provide a close fit to said part of said wearer'"'"''"'"'s body.

2. A gown as set forth in claim 1 wherein said area encircles the midsection of a wearer at about the waist.

3. A gown as set forth in claim 1 wherein said area encircles the lower arm of a wearer at about the wrist.

4. A gown as set forth in claim 1 wherein said area encircles the neck area of a wearer.

5. A gown as set forth in claim 1 wherein said area encircles the midsection of a wearer at about the waist and said plurality of portions bearing cohesive-adhesive are discontinuous in the direction of encirclement and comprise a belt having a first end length and a second end length and an intermediate length between said first and second end lengths, at least said first and second end lengths having cohesive-adhesive thereon.

6. A gown as set forth in claim 1 wherein an ares encircles the wearer at about the midsection and another area encircles the lower arm of said wearer at about the wrist, the improvement comprising:

said plurality of portions bearing cohesive-adhesive on said area encircling said wearer at about the midsection are discontinuous in the direction of encirclement and comprise a belt having a first end length and a second end length and an intermediate length between said first and second end lengths, at least said first and second end lengths having cohesive-adhesive thereon.