Modesty hospital gown

• US 8,332,965 B1
• Filed: 04/28/2011
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ralada Ryer
• Original Assignee: Ralada Ryer
• Inventors: Ryer, Ralada
• Primary Examiner(s): Tompkins, Alissa
• Application Number:
  US13/066,924
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 211/4, 211/3, 211/5, 2 7/2, 2 4/6, 2 6/7, 2 6/9, 291/4
• US Class Current: 2/114
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1236 Patients' garments
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2300/33 using straps or ties

Abstract

A hospital garment comprising a substantially rectangular main panel and a smaller flap panel seamed to an end of a free edge of the main garment. In one position, the flap panel extends across the back of the patient and is connected by ribbons to the main panel so as to conceal the buttocks and back of the patient'"'"'s leg and in another orientation of the flap panel, the flap panel does not conceal the buttocks and back of the patient'"'"'s leg.

Claims

1. A hospital gown comprising:

a main panel dimensioned for wear by a patient and extending from a neck downwardly toward ankles of said patient and for wrapping around said patient;

said main panel being substantially rectangular and having a top edge, a bottom edge, a side edge, and a seam edge;

said top edge is parallel to said bottom edge and said side edge is parallel to said seam edge;

said seam edge and said side edge extend between said bottom edge and said top edge forming the substantially rectangular main panel;

a flap panel having a flap seam edge, is attached along an entire length of the seam edge of the main panel and extends outwardly from the main panel;

said flap panel has a flap bottom edge having one end perpendicularly meeting a lower end of said flap seam edge and a flap free edge that is parallel to said flap seam edge;

said flap free edge is shorter than said flap seam edge, and has one end perpendicularly meeting an end of said bottom edge of said main panel;

a flap top edge connects to a top end of said flap free edge at an obtuse angle and connects the top end of said flap seam edge at an acute angle;

a cut out is formed in said top edge of said main panel and is centered between ends of said top edge;

a first neck ribbon having one end attached adjacent to a junction of said top edge and said seam edge of said main panel;

a second neck ribbon having one end attached adjacent to a junction between an end of said top edge and said side edge of said main panel;

whereby said garment is secured to the neck of said patient when a neck of said patient is positioned in said cutout and ends of said cutout are secured together by said first and second neck ribbons; and

a joining ribbon having one end secured to a corner where said flap top edge and said flap free edge meet;

a first chest ribbon and a second chest ribbon are located and secured to respective areas of said main panel corresponding to right and left breasts of said patient and are located equidistant from said top edge of said main panel;

whereby a back of said patient is exposed when said patient is wrapped in said hospital gown with said patients back secured in said cutout and said flap is pulled in a direction to expose said back with said joining ribbon tied to said first chest ribbon; and

whereby a back of said patient is covered when said patient is wrapped in said hospital gown with said patient'"'"'s neck secured in said cutout and said flap is pulled in a direction to cover said back with said joining ribbon tied to said second chest ribbon.

2. The hospital gown of claim 1 comprising:

a first sleeve and a second sleeve;

said first sleeve and said second sleeve each having a shoulder opening and an arm opening located at opposing ends of each respective sleeve and arranged for positioning an arm there through;

each of said shoulder openings of each sleeve having an edge contoured for seaming to a respective right and left shoulder mating section of said top edge of said main panel;

each sleeve having a parting line extending from a respective shoulder opening to a respective arm opening;

said edges of said opposing parting lines of each sleeve joinable together by snap fasteners;

a first shoulder section of said top edge is seamed to said one contoured edge of said first sleeve and a second shoulder section of said top edge is seamed to said contoured edge of said second sleeve.

3. The hospital gown of claim 1 comprising;

at least one opening in said main panel.

4. The hospital gown of claim 3, wherein at least one of said openings includes a pocket accessible from outside the hospital gown.

5. The hospital gown of claim 1, comprising a pair of hook and loop patches secured to the main panel and arranged for holding said cutout around a neck of a patient to aid tying said first and second neck ribbons together across a back of said patients neck.