One piece, open seam wrapping garment for covering and uncovering the human body on-demand

• US 5,274,852 A
• Filed: 04/27/1993
• Issued: 01/04/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BETH Israel Medical Center (Mount Sinai Beth Israel)
• Original Assignee: BETH Israel Medical Center (Mount Sinai Beth Israel)
• Inventors: Hogan, John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crowder, Clifford D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chapman, Jeanette E.
• Application Number:
  US08/053,324
• Time in Patent Office: 252 Days
• Field of Search: 2/69, 2/69.5, 2/75, 2/80, 2/105, 2/106, 2/107, 2/104, 2/114, 2/88, 2/247, 2/406, 2/DIG. 7, 450/36, 450/37
• US Class Current: 2/114
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1236 Patients' garments
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/129 Donning facilities, e.g. characterized by the opening

Abstract

The present invention provides a one-piece, open-seam garment which encompasses the head, covers and conforms to the body and limbs of the wearer, and provides on-demand access to one portion of the covered body and limbs without uncovering the remainder of the body and legs. When worn, the garment provides privacy and protection for the person unlike the conventionally used johnnies and hospital gowns conventionally worn during physical examination or medical treatment in the physician'"'"'s office or clinic.

Claims

1. A one-piece, open-seam garment which encompasses the head of the wearer, covers the body and the limbs of the wearer, and provides on-demand access to one portion of the covered body and limbs without uncovering the remainder of the body and limbs, said garment comprising:

a single, flexible, and integral configured sheet which is substantially planar, has open-seam sides, and has a fixed surface area providing at least

(a) an open-seam central panel formed as a strapless chest flap zone for covering the chest joined opposite to a strapless back section zone for covering the back, said chest flap zone and said back section zone each being of a length sufficient to reach from about the shoulder to at least the waist of the wearer, and said chest flap zone and said back section zone each having a plurality of open-seam sides for engagement of the opposite zone on-demand,

(b) an opening in said central panel sufficiently large to accommodate the head of the wearer therethrough,

(c) first and second open-seam, configured arm panels joined to said central panel adjacent said strapless chest flap and back section zones, each of said arm panels individually being able to cover at least a portion of one upper limb of the wearer as a sleeve having a plurality of open-seam sides for engagement on-demand,

(d) a single, open-seam, configured bottom panel joined to said back section zone of said central panel, said bottom panel having a plurality of open-seam sides and being of sufficient surface area and dimensions to be folded around and to cover the buttocks, the genital area, and at least a portion of the lower limbs of the wearer, such that at least two open-seam sides of said bottom panel extend forward around the wearer to overlap each other markedly and lie markedly overlapped against a portion of said chest flap zone of said central panel, each of said overlapping open-seam sides of said bottom panel engaging the other overlapping side on-demand; and

a plurality of on-demand closures spaced from each other at prechosen positions along said open-seam sides of said configured sheet for repeated engagement and closure of said open-seam sides on demand.

2. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one slit within said back section zone of said central panel.

3. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of slits within said back section zone of said central panel.

4. The garment as recited in claim 3 where said plurality of slits form a discrete flap within said back section zone of said central panel.

5. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one porous netting positioned on the surface of said configured sheet.

6. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one absorbent patch positioned on a surface of said configured sheet.