Abstract: A disposable garment comprising, a gown having a pair of sleeves, a front, a pair of side margins defining an open back for the gown, and a tunnel having a pair of opposed closed sides, and a pair of opposed ends being open. The garment has a first belt having one end secured to the gown and the other end being free, and a second belt having one end secured to the gown. The garment has a transfer card having one end received in the tunnel through one of said open ends, and the other end of the first belt is releasably attached to the card adjacent the other end of the card.

Abstract: This invention proposes a partial pressure jerkin that includes a front panel and a rear panel to overlie the anterior and posterior region of the trunk respectively of a wearer. The front and rear panels are joined at selected areas of their periphery to provide head, arm and leg apertures. An opening is formed in the rear panel extending from the head aperture to one of the leg apertures to permit access to the garment and a zip fastener is provided to close the opening. A single bladder is attached to the inside of the outer garment and is positioned between the front panel and the chest of the wearer. The bladder extends between the head and arm apertures to terminate in a region adjacent to the shoulder blades of the wearer and covers the anterior portion of the trunk all the way down to the upper thighs and inguinal areas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for separating trash from irregularly-shaped clusters of material containing trash, fiber motes, and cotton lint. The apparatus comprises a rotatable drum encircled by a screen on an inside periphery thereof. The drum contains a plurality of finger-shaped baffles arranged in rows and extending radially inwardly from the inside periphery of the drum. As material is delivered to the rotating drum, the finger-shaped baffles lift the material toward an upper portion of the drum and drop the material directly on the screen at a lower portion of the drum to break-up clusters of material and to separate the heavy trash. The heavy trash drops through the screen and is removed by a conveyor. The fiber motes and cotton lint, along with smaller trash, are retained within the rotating drum and removed at an outlet end of the drum.

Abstract: This invention relates to an item of disposable protective headwear, particularly surgical headwear. The headwear has a crown-piece formed from a rectangular sheet of nonwoven fabric, e.g . a viscose rayon nonwoven fabric, having a pair of opposed side edges and a pair of opposed end edges. The sheet is pleated along longitudinal foldlines parallel to the opposed pair of side edges, and at least some of the pleats are secured together at each end of the pleated sheet. The opposed side edges being secured to a head-band of nonwoven fabric provided with tie-strings. In one embodiment of the invention there is provided a surgeons cap and a in another a surgeons hood. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for producing disposable protective headwear and in particular a method and apparatus for continuous production of disposable protective headwear.

Abstract: A necktie protector comprises a flat flexible plastic envelope having two identical elongate flat plastic faces joined at the long edges thereof and not being joined at the short edges thereof. Flat plastic tabs extend centrally from two adjacent unjoined edges.

Abstract: A brassiere including a pair of bust supporting cups having an outer panel means and an inner segment, an underbust band assembly, a pair of back band portions, and a pair of shoulder straps connected to the cups and to the back band portions. The generally crescent-shaped inner segments extend from the top of each cup to the lower central area of the cup such that when strain is exerted from the force of the breasts, the inner segments are activated and function to reshape the breast and avoid distorting and misshaping the outer cup panel means.

Abstract: An upper-body garment, such as an athletic jersey, has a facility whereby its characteristic color may be changed so that a wearer while participating in a team sport may switch teams without having to change jerseys. The garment has an inner shell and an outer shell. The outer shell comprises front and rear panels having one color on the outside and another color on the inside which is the same as the color of the inner shell. The panels may be attached together over the shoulders when the one color is to be exposed, and the panels may be detached so as to hang down from a midriff section of the garment when the other color is to be exposed.

Abstract: A garment and accessories formed substantially entirely of textile fabric having a series of parallel raised ribs at generally equally spaced intervals to form channels through which air may circulate and which also serves to maintain a distance when the garment is worn beneath a non-porous outergarment such as personal body armour worn by law enforcement and military personnel, asbestos clothing worn by foundry workers, rubberized garments for work and recreation, and the like. In one embodiment, the ribs are formed by stitching a fabric-enclosed fiberfill cord of substantial diameter, using a knit stitch formation which causes or allows the base fabric to enclose approximately seven eighths to three quarters of the circumference of the cord thereby eliminating any lateral shifting of the cords when the garment is worn under tension. When the wearer moves in any direction the undergarment maintains the supple, pliable and flexible properties of the base fabric which enclose the cords.

Abstract: A disposable garment comprising, a gown having a pair of sleeves, a front, and a pair of side margins defining an open back for the gown. The garment has a first belt having one end secured to the gown and the other end being free. The garment has a second belt having one end secured to the gown. The garment also has a transfer card having a lower side edge, and a pair of generally aligned slits extending from the side edge and defining a tongue. The other end of the first belt is releasably attached to the card, with the card tongue being received behind the second belt to hold the card in place on the gown.

Abstract: A restraint assembly for an infant, and particularly for a premature infant, which takes the form of a shirt or vest which is to cover the torso of the infant from which extends sleeves to be located about each arm of the infant. Each sleeve is to be closable by a closing flap preventing the infant's hands from extending exteriorly of the sleeve. The vest includes a closable center opening located across the chest of the infant. The straps are to be securable to each sleeve and are to be secured to an exterior structure, such as the table on which the infant is located. Booties are to be provided which are located about each foot of the infant. The outer end of each bootie is openable and closable also through the use of a closing flap. Securing straps are also to be secured to each bootie. A hood is to be located about the head of the infant. The hood is to be removably secured to the vest.

Abstract: A fireman's coat is modified by the addition of several emergency evacuation straps along the sides, the tops of the shoulders, and behind the neck, to permit a fireman overcome by smoke or otherwise incapacitated to be effectively and quickly evacuated by use of the straps as handles to drag or carry the fireman to safety.

Abstract: A protective garment for a bowler is described including a generally rectangular towel member having upper and lower ends adapted to be positioned over one of the bowler's breasts and generally extending from the bowler's shoulder to the bowler's waist. A first elongated strap member is secured at one end to the rectangular member above the lower end and is adapted to be extended around the bowler's waist and detachably secured at its other end to the rectangular member. A second elongated strap member is secured at one end to the upper end of the rectangular member and is adapted to extend over the bowler's shoulder and thence downwardly for connection, at its other end, to the first strap member intermediate the ends thereof. The rectangular towel member prevents dirt or the like carried by the bowling ball from being transmitted to the bowler's shirt beneath the rectangular towel member.

Abstract: A brassiere wherein left and right bust cups are fashioned from upper and lower fabric panels with the upper panels being connected to a ring element and the lower marginal edges of the cups being connected by an elastic member. Each cup is provided with an elongated petal shaped opening in the upper portion thereof which extends generally upwardly and outwardly a selected distance from the connector element.

Abstract: A two part garment comprising a bikini bottom or high cut leg hole garment, and transparent pants in which the latter extends beyond the former and a short way down the thighs.

Abstract: A belt having a stretchable substrate and fish-scale type plates attached to the substrate by stapler-like elements.

Abstract: The jeans or trousers have a pocket or pockets sewn onto the hip portion to define an opening along the top of the pocket for gaining access to the interior of the pocket. The top of the pocket may be slanted for better access, and may include optional closure means or flap for closing the pocket. The interior of the pocket is provided with an opening through the hip portion of the trousers to permit access to the wearer's body.

Abstract: A fashionable ladies belt intended for wearing on the outside of the clothing has relatively wide side and rear portions and a narrow closure portion, which may be tied, buckled or otherwise fastened. A pocket is constructed on the inside of the belt so that it overlies a side of a wearer. The pocket extends the full vertical dimension of the belt and has a horizontal dimension of about four to five inches. An inward opening near the top of the pocket is closed by a zipper.

Abstract: The nursing dress includes an outer dress portion covering the torso of a woman and having a given color and design. An under dress portion, in turn, covers the torso from the inside upper front margin of the outer dress portion and extends downwardly over the top areas of the breasts to within a short distance of the nipples and is of the same color and design as the outer dress portion. This under dress portion may be detachably secured to the inside of the outer dress portion at the shoulders and side arm areas. An exposing arrangement such as zippers or buttons on the front of the outer dress portion permits an area of the outer dress portion to be removed from in front of the torso to expose the under dress portion and an uncovered area of a breast for nursing a child. Since the under dress portion has the same color and design as the outer dress portion, it blends in with the remaining front of the outer dress portion to camouflage the fact that an area of the outer dress portion has been removed.

Abstract: A sock having a pocket supported inside its leg portion. A first vertical slit opening in the sock provides access to the pocket within the sock and that opening is closed by a zipper. The pocket has a corresponding slit opening in one wall and the margins of the slit opening in the pocket are stitched along the margins of the two tracks of the zipper closure at the opposite sides of the slit opening in the sock. That is the only securement of the pocket to the sock, avoiding additional stitching or fastening of the pocket to the leg portion of the sock. The pocket is large enough and wide enough to hold needed objects.

Abstract: A comfort garment particularly characterized as a jogging support for the upper female anatomy which may assume various forms, as (1) a vest which includes the use of a nonelastic front panel and elastic straps attached thereto which combine to restrict upward and downward breast movement, a nonelastic back panel, and an expandable bottom and side panel which permits stretching action during jogging or like activity; (2) a similar form to that of (1) where, however, the entire garment is made from an elastic material and/or where the bottom and side and the back panels are unitary and expandable, or variations of the preceding; and, (3) a continuous wrapped unit serving the same restrictive breast movement functions, but maintained on the torso in halter/strap fashion.