Convertible garment

• US 4,476,587 A
• Filed: 01/04/1983
• Issued: 10/16/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toru Itoi
• Original Assignee: Toru Itoi
• Inventors: Itoi, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Troutman, Doris L.
• Application Number:
  US06/455,483
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 2/94, 2/88, 2/108, 2/84, 2/85
• US Class Current: 2/94
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 15/04 Garments convertible into other articles
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2200/20 Hoods
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/422 into a pocket
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 3/005 with pullover structure
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 4/12 into coats or capes

Abstract

A garment is provided with first and second fastener tracks such as to extend transversely across respective front and back parts of its trunk portion. The fastener tracks can be fastened together with a portion of the garment other than a portion under these fastener tracks accommodated in the space defined by the portion under the fastener tracks. In this form, the garment can be used as a knapsack to be carried along on the back. Thus, it is possible to avoid losing the garment after it is taken off. Also, there is no need for the garment to occupy either hand when it is carried along. Further, small-sized goods may be carried along in the knapsack thus formed.

Claims

1. A convertible article useful as outerwear and as a carrying bag or knapsack, comprising:

a trunk portion adapted to fit over the torso of the wearer'"'"'s body and having sleeves extending therefrom;

said portion including a front part and a back part;

a neck-receiving opening at the upper part of said trunk portion for allowing passage of the wearer'"'"'s head when said article is worn;

a hood portion about said opening;

first and second fastener tracks extending transversely across said front and back parts respectively;

said tracks constituting fastening means along with a slider;

a drawstring at the lower edge of said trunk portion, said drawstring having ends extending outside said trunk portion;

hook means near the opposite ends of said second fastener track adapted to receive said ends of said drawstring so that said article can be carried on the shoulders as a carrying bag or knapsack with the portion of said article above said fastener tracks in the rest of said trunk portion with said fastener tracks fastened together with said slider; and

an opening in said trunk portion formed by said lower edge of said trunk portion.

2. The article of claim 1, including:

a tube formed in the lower edge of said trunk portion;

said drawstring consisting of a pair of strings retained in said tube in loop form with ends protruding from said tube and tied by pegs to facilitate pulling out.

3. The article of claim 1, wherein the front part of said trunk portion has a pocket.

4. The article of claim 1, wherein said front part of said trunk portion has a breast portion with a vertical fastener extending to said neck opening.

5. The article of claim 2, wherein the front part of said trunk portion has a pocket.

6. The article of claim 2, wherein said front part of said trunk portion has a breast portion with a vertical fastener extending to said neck opening.

7. The article of claim 5, wherein said front part of said trunk portion has a breast portion with a vertical fastener extending to said neck opening.

9. The article of claim 1, wherein a retainer tube is formed in the lower edge of said trunk portion, and said drawstring consists of a pair of strings retained in said tube in loop form with ends protruding from said tube and tied by pegs to facilitate pulling out.

8. A convertible article useful as outerwear and as a carrying bag or knapsack, comprising:

a trunk portion adapted to fit over the torso of the wearer'"'"'s body;

said trunk portion having sleeves extending therefrom, and including a front part and a back part;

a neck-receiving opening at the upper part of said trunk portion for allowing passage of the wearer'"'"'s head when said article is worn;

a hood portion about said opening;

first and second fastener tracks extending transversely across said front and back parts, respectively, said tracks together with a slider constituting fastening means;

a drawstring at the lower edge of said trunk portion, said drawstring having ends extending outside said trunk portion;

hook means near the opposite ends of said second fastener track adapted to receive said ends of said drawstring so that said article can be carried on the shoulders as a carrying bag or knapsack with the portion of said article above said fastener tracks in the rest of said trunk portion with said fastener tracks fastened together with said slider; and

an opening in said trunk portion formed by said lower edge of said trunk portion.

10. The convertible article of claim 8, wherein said fastener tracks are slightly below said sleeves.