GARMENT
A garment including a plurality of attached glove members having releasably attached glove bodies is provided. The garment includes a central portion and two opposed sleeve portions. Each attached glove member is attached to each opposed sleeve portion through the use of a retainer. The glove members may be used separately or together, allowing the user to deploy a combination of glove members simultaneously.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/366,273 filed Jul. 25,2016, the contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
TECHNICAL FIELDThis disclosure is directed to a garment including a plurality of attached glove structures; in particular, the garment includes several distinct glove structures attached to each sleeve portion thereof.
BACKGROUNDGarments and other similar articles of clothing are rarely fitted with releasably attached glove members. As a result, gloves must be donned separately by an individual. Gloves and other similarly small accessories can be easy to lose, for example when worn by small children.
Additionally, a variety of different types of gloves may be needed for specific activities. In cool weather, or in instances where a user requires increased manual dexterity, a fingerless glove may be appropriate; however, in colder conditions a user may need additional protection and/or warmth for their hand. There would be significant benefit to having multiple gloves accessible as part of a garment is preferred to managing numerous gloves separately.
Accordingly, a need is identified for a garment with several distinct glove structures attached to the sleeves.
SUMMARYThis invention relates to a garment that includes a plurality of glove structures attached thereto. The garment includes a body portion and two opposed sleeve portions. Multiple glove members are attached to each opposed sleeve portion. The glove members may be attached to the sleeve portions by any suitable fastening mechanism.
Each glove member includes a cuff which attaches the glove member to the opposed sleeve portions of the garment and a body configured to cover at least a portion of a user's hand. A plurality of glove member retainers are provided for releasably attaching the body to a one of the sleeve portions. When the body portion of the glove member is released from the sleeve, the cuff portion remains attached, preventing loss of the glove.
The three glove members provided may be used separately or together in any combination. Each individual glove member is capable of being extended to reach a user's hand for wearing while the other members remain secured by the retainer.
In the following description, there are shown and described embodiments of the disclosed garment. As it should be realized, the garment is capable of other, different embodiments and its several details are capable of modification in various, obvious aspects all without departing from the garments as set forth and described in the following claims. Accordingly, the drawings and descriptions should be regarded as illustrative in nature and not as restrictive.
The accompanying drawing figures incorporated herein and forming a part of the specification, illustrate several aspects of the disclosed invention, serve to explain certain principles thereof. In the drawing figures:
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the disclosed garment, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawing figures.
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONAt a high level, the present disclosure is directed to a garment including a plurality of attached glove structures. In particular, the garment includes several distinct glove structures attached to each sleeve portion thereof. It is contemplated that the garment may be any long-sleeved garment including without intending any limitation a jacket or coat, a sweater, a hoodie, a long-sleeved shirt, a sweatshirt, and others.
In reference to
A plurality of glove members 130a . . . n are attached to each opposed sleeve portion 120. In the depicted embodiment, three glove members 130a, 130b, and 130c are attached. However, it will be appreciated that more or fewer glove members 130a . . . n may be attached. The glove members 130a . . . n are attached substantially adjacent to a distal end D of each sleeve portion 120. As will be appreciated, by such fastening, a user wearing the garment cannot lose one or more of the attached glove members 130a . . . n.
The basic structure of a glove (cuff, palm, fingers, etc.) is well known in the art and does not require extensive description herein. However, in more detail and as shown in
As will be appreciated, the cuff portion 140 will be dimensioned to be sufficiently long as to allow the body portion 150a . . . n to reach a user's hand for wearing. The cuff portion 140 may be configured to encircle a portion of a user's arm/wrist as depicted, or may simply be a strip of material which attaches the glove members 130a . . . n to the sleeve portion 120. In use, the body portion 150a . . . n is detached from the sleeve 120, the cuff portion 140 remaining attached to prevent loss of the glove member 130a . . . n, and the body portion is slipped onto the user's hand and palm and/or the fingers (see discussion below). As will be appreciated, to accomplish this the body portion 150a . . . n is releasably attached to one or both of the cuff portion 140 or the sleeve 120 by a glove member retainer 152 (see
In the depicted embodiment of
Glove members 130c, 130c′ (see
In use, the glove portions 130a . . . n may be used separately or together. For example, in cool weather only glove member 130a may need to be deployed and placed on the user's hand, whereas in slightly colder weather glove member 130b may be deployed. In turn, in much colder weather glove member 130c providing the most warmth to the user's hand may be deployed.
Still more, it is contemplated to deploy the glove portions 130a . . . n not only alone, but in combination according to the user's needs. Thus, for example, in extremes of cold weather some or all of glove portions 130a and 130c or 130c′ may be concurrently deployed and placed on a user's hand to provide additional warmth. If the user engages in a task requiring more manual dexterity, the glove portion 130c/130c′ may be removed from the hand, and restored once the task is completed.
As will be appreciated, particularly in the case of children or the elderly, it may be difficult to slip a glove member 130a . . . n onto a user's hand. To solve this problem, the described glove members 130a . . . n may further include a slit 180 disposed in a portion of the glove cuff 140 and/or the glove body 150a . . . n. The slit 180 may be adapted to be selectively sealable by providing one or more sealing members 182. While the depicted embodiments show a plurality of sealing members 182, it will be appreciated that in embodiments a single sealing member 182 traversing a length dimension of the slit 180 may be provided. In embodiments, the sealing member(s) 182 may be provided as buttons, snaps, zippers, hook-and-loop material panels, and combinations. In one possible embodiment, the slit 180 is oriented along a longitudinal axis of the glove member 130a . . . n (see
The foregoing has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the embodiments to the precise form disclosed. Obvious modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings. All such modifications and variations are within the scope of the description and appended drawings when interpreted in accordance with the breadth to which they are fairly, legally and equitably entitled.
Claims
1. A garment, comprising:
- a pair of sleeves;
- a plurality of glove members each attached to a one of the pair of sleeves at a first portion thereof; and
- a plurality of glove member retainers carried by each of the pair of sleeves and adapted for releasably attaching a second portion of each of the plurality of glove members to a one of the pair of sleeves.
2. The garment of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of glove members comprises:
- a glove cuff; and
- a glove body configured for covering at least a portion of a user's hand.
3. The garment of claim 2, wherein the glove cuff is dimensioned to allow the glove body to reach the user's hand for wearing.
4. The garment of claim 2, wherein at least a portion of the glove cuff includes a slit adapted for insertion of a user's hand therethrough.
5. The garment of claim 4, wherein the slit is selectively sealable.
6. The garment of claim 2, wherein the glove body is configured as a fingerless glove.
7. The garment of claim 2, wherein the glove body is configured as a full-fingered glove.
8. The garment of claim 2, wherein the glove body is configured as a mitten.
9. The garment of claim 1, wherein the plurality of glove members are configured and dimensioned whereby two or more of the plurality of glove members may be placed concurrently on a user's hand.
10. A garment comprising:
- a pair of sleeves;
- a plurality of glove members each attached at a first portion thereof to a one of the pair of sleeves; and
- a plurality of glove member retainers adapted for releasably attaching a second portion of each of the plurality of glove members to a one of the pair of sleeves;
- wherein each of the plurality of glove members includes a slit adapted for insertion of a user's hand therethrough.
11. The garment of claim 10, wherein the plurality of glove member retainers are selected from the group of glove member retainers consisting of a closeable pouch or pocket, a hook-and-loop material panel, one or more buttons, one or more snaps, a strap, or combinations.
12. The garment of claim 10, wherein each of the plurality of glove members comprises:
- a glove cuff; and
- a glove body configured for covering at least a portion of a user's hand.
13. The garment of claim 12, wherein each glove cuff of the plurality of glove members is attached to a portion a one of the pair of sleeves.
14. The garment of claim 13, wherein each glove body is adapted for releasable attachment to a one of the plurality of glove member retainers.
15. The garment of claim 14, wherein the glove cuff and glove body are stowed by folding or rolling and attaching to the one of the plurality of glove member retainers.
16. A garment, comprising:
- a garment body;
- a pair of sleeves each attached to a portion of the garment body;
- a plurality of glove members each including a glove cuff attached to a one of the pair of sleeves and a glove body configured for covering at least a portion of a user's hand; and
- a plurality of glove member retainers carried by each of the pair of sleeves, adapted for releasably attaching a second portion of each of the plurality of glove members to each of the pair of sleeves;
- wherein each of the plurality of glove members includes a slit adapted for insertion of a user's hand therethrough.
17. The garment of claim 16, wherein the slit is selectively sealable by one or more fasteners selected from the group consisting of a button, a snap, a zipper, a hook-and-loop material panel, and combinations.
18. The garment of claim 16, wherein the plurality of glove member retainers are selected from the group of retainers consisting of a closeable pouch or pocket, a hook-and-loop material panel, one or more buttons, one or more snaps, a strap, or combinations.
19. The garment of claim 16, wherein the plurality of glove members variously include the glove body configured from the group of glove bodies consisting of a fingerless glove, a full-fingered glove, a mitten, and combinations.
20. The garment of claim 16, wherein the plurality of glove members are configured and dimensioned whereby two or more of the plurality of glove members may be placed concurrently on a user's hand.
Type: Application
Filed: Jul 25, 2017
Publication Date: Jan 25, 2018
Inventor: Jenny Ruth Lewis (Lexington, KY)
Application Number: 15/659,210