Bed Garments Patents (Class 2/114)
  • Patent number: 7424750
    Abstract: A patient gown such as the type utilized in a hospital setting made up of a single one piece front panel section and a single one piece back panel section releaseably connected along a shoulder seam by a plurality of releasable fasteners. The front and back panel sections defining a generally V-shaped neck portion configured to allow passage of a person's head therethrough, and further containing a closure device configured to connect the patient gown around in front of a wearer. These sections connected along a shoulder seam formed by the uniting of the top portions of the front panel section and the back panel section by at least one selectively releasable fastener. The gown has a connection device that is configured to allow opposing portions of the back panel to be connected together in a location in front of the person wearing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Inventor: Brian C. Kerr
  • Patent number: 7421743
    Abstract: An ostomy garment apparatus includes a shirt with a front wall, a back wall and a pair of sleeves attached together. An upper end of the shirt has a neck opening therein. A bottom end of the shirt has a torso opening extending therein. An aperture for receiving a tube extends through the front wall. The aperture is positioned nearer to the torso opening than the neck opening. A resiliently stretchable band is attached to and is coextensive with a perimeter edge of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Inventors: David V. Wixom, Lynda K. Kelly
  • Patent number: 7418741
    Abstract: A patient garment for wearing during treatment or examination involving insertion of tubing at a body site which is suitable for street wear. A plurality of openable flaps allow access to particular body sites and loops attached to the garment adjacent each opening secure the tubing in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Inventor: Bernadine Rogers
  • Publication number: 20080184455
    Abstract: A gown for medical patients having a closable fly front extending from the sternal notch to the pubis. Openings are formed in the front of the gown to receive leads for monitoring devices and for tubes for treatment or drainage. A pocket for small instruments is on the front of a selected side of the gown. A second pocket is formed on the opposite side of the front of the gown. The back of the gown is fully openable and may be closed by overlapping portions of the back of the gown. A plurality of tabs is formed on the inside of the front of the gown to secure a catheter drainage bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Patricia W. Blume
  • Publication number: 20080168592
    Abstract: A hospital gown (100) is provided with an access flap (120) in the front of the hospital gown in the chest area of the patient. The access flap (120) attaches and detaches from the hospital gown providing access to the chest area of the patient without the need to remove the hospital gown off the patient. Further, a support flap (130) is provided on the front section of the hospital gown such that the support flap (130) supports a medical tube between the support flap (130) and the hospital gown (100), in order to prevent the medical tube from detaching from the patient's body in case of an accident. Also, openings (160) at the lower side regions of the gown allow for a connection or other medical tubing to the patient's body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventor: Brian Silver
  • Patent number: 7396272
    Abstract: A transitional feminine styled garment for use by mastectomy patients immediately following surgery, the garment being sleeveless and having wireless and non-binding pockets for soft molded cups. The garment has inside drainage pockets for drainage receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Inventor: Kim Newlen
  • Patent number: 7395556
    Abstract: A labor and delivery outfit designed to provide function, comfort and dignity, comprises: a sleeveless, wrap shirt having an upper portion with nursing flaps, lower portions extending from the flaps, a back having straps, lower portions defining an opening therebetween; a built-in, supporting, nursing bra with nursing cups, releasable fasteners for covering the nursing cups, and, a wrap skirt having an elastic waist, a built-in pregnancy panel, and, a rear zipper. Releasable fasteners are provided for fastening the rear lower portions to the upper portion of the shirt, thereby providing access to the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Inventor: Jennifer A. Eraca
  • Publication number: 20080134418
    Abstract: A garment, such as gowns, face masks, gloves and headwear for personnel involved in surgical operations. In accordance with the invention, the garment includes a skin friendly element for the sealed attachment of parts of the garment to the skin of a wearer of the garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CARE AB
    Inventors: Helena Johansson, Fredrik Wallefors, Ann-Catherine Ericson, Karl Erikson
  • Publication number: 20080115255
    Abstract: A medical examination gown designed to alleviate the necessity of removing the entire gown in order to permit routine and other medical examination procedures. The gown comprises of a conventional medical gown in varying sizes with a conventional rear tie closure; however also comprising closable flap-like openings at various other locations, including, but not limited to the breast, abdomen, and back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Niloufar Gorman
  • Publication number: 20080115253
    Abstract: A medical gown for medical examinations, treatments, and procedures that ensures the privacy and dignity of a patient, comprising a series of flaps over access portals on the gown for breast, abdomen, spine, shoulder, and proctological examinations. The gown further comprising flaps that can be held closed either by a fastening means, or designed to be held closed by virtue of being oversized and tucked into the access portals of the gown. The gown further comprising arm lengths that can extend to the wrists of a patient and a pocket disposed on the abdomen or sleeve of the gown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Niloufar Gorman
  • Patent number: 7370369
    Abstract: A sanitary arm sleeve structure includes an arm sleeve, adapted for receiving the user's arm therewithin, having an outer side, an opposed inner side, and a free edge end, and a sleeve protection layer having an upper edge end attached on the arm sleeve and a lower edge end extended to the free edge end of the arm sleeve so as to overlappedly encircle the sleeve protection layer around the outer side of the arm sleeve. An elastic retaining loop is provided at the inner side of the arm sleeve above the free edge end thereof for applying an elastic binding force around the user's arm above the wrist thereof, so as to retain the arm sleeve in position that the sleeve protection layer is capable of encircling around the user's arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Inventor: Ken Cheung
  • Publication number: 20080083049
    Abstract: Garments are provided that permit easy accessibility to medicament injection sites, or key zones, of the wearer. Each of the garments has multiple access slots which overlie respective injection sites, e.g., arms, thighs, abdomen, and/or other body parts which tend to accumulate subcutaneous fat, making them suitable as injection sites. Each of the access slots has a base portion and a corresponding flap portion. Openings are defined through the access slots, between the base and flap portions, and provide access to the skin of the wearer at the respective injection sites. The access slots can be incorporated into the garment in a visually inconspicuous manner by providing them on or within covers that replicate the appearance of, e.g., pockets, patches, or other structures concealing their appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventor: Laurie E. McLeod
  • Publication number: 20080000006
    Abstract: Disclosed are hospital patient and medical gowns designed to facilitate not only convenient and unobstructed access to the patients body by medical personnel, but also provide an improved fit, ease of wearing, and an enhanced level of modesty and privacy when compared to conventional rear-access hospital gowns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Yvette M. Ochoa, Shelly D. Nalbone
  • Patent number: 7313832
    Abstract: An ostomy support garment in the form of a material having a hole for receiving a stoma. The hole has a stabilized edge that is provided with an element allowing an increase or reduction of the length of the edge of the hole to obtain a snug fit to the stoma. This also ensures an easy application and removal of the garment and of a collecting bag combined with a sufficient support next to the stoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Bjarne Worsoee
  • Publication number: 20070283481
    Abstract: A heatable robe comprises a coverlet, having at least one openable partition, and including a moisture absorbent material suitable for removing moisture from a wearer's body. At least one heating element is carried by the coverlet and is configured to generate heat in at least a portion of the coverlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventor: Stacey S. Rawlings
  • Patent number: 7305716
    Abstract: A medical gown includes separable portions that can be joined using color coded fasteners. The garment includes a pair of sleeve portions each having a separable seam extending from a neck opening to a distal end of the sleeve portion. Disposed along each of two opposing edges of the separable seam are a plurality of mating, color-coded fasteners allowing a medical worker to easily secure the garment about a patient. The garment also includes a back flap that wraps around to partially overlay a front surface of the garment, and which is likewise secured with color-coded fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Inventor: Harlan J. Richards
  • Patent number: 7305717
    Abstract: This is specially designed clothing for autistic children. It may however also be used for children or adults who are physically or mentally infirm and provides a means to secure the clothing and provide a means to shorten the clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Inventor: Michelle Brown
  • Patent number: 7293295
    Abstract: A medical support assembly garment dimensionally adapted to receive a torso of a patient. The garment includes a vest portion including a back portion, and a left front portion and a right front portion each extending from opposite ends of the back portion and each comprising an inner surface facing the torso, and at least one pocket attached to the inner surface of at least one of the left and the right portions, wherein the pocket is adapted to support at least one container for storing bodily fluid outputted from the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: 2 Assist, LLC
    Inventor: Joy J. King
  • Patent number: 7260852
    Abstract: A swimsuit especially adapted for use by elderly and physically challenged women includes a one-piece body having an upper wraparound portion and a lower trunk portion. The upper portion includes first and second panels or flaps that overlap one another and include free ends that are secured to the body by readily securable and releasable fasteners such as hook and loop fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Inventor: Dianne Rothhammer Sheetz
  • Patent number: 7258593
    Abstract: A camisole for use by medical patients includes front and rear segments with the front segment divided into two panels which may be selectively temporarily closed. The front panels are connected to the rear panels along side seams and the garment includes a yoke-like neck area and arm receiving openings. A loop is secured in each side seam below each arm opening for guarding drainage tubes and pockets are sewn into the side seams and lower hem for receiving drainage bulbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventor: Jean Mineconzo
  • Patent number: 7234171
    Abstract: A protective garment having an expandable material incorporated therein is provided. The expandable material may be formed of a nonwoven fabric having a first fabric surface and a second fabric surface which is opposite the first fabric surface. A section of the fabric defines at least one region gathered into a plurality of successive pleats. Each pleat is made of an overlap in the fabric such that a portion of the first fabric surface is disposed adjacent to another portion of the first fabric surface. A secondary panel for straddling a pleat may be provided. The secondary panel may be attached to the fabric by attachment points that are adapted to retain the pleat in a folded state until application of a tensile force directed along the fabric length causes the secondary panel to separate which would enable the pleat to unfold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia L. Pyeatt Rowe, Julia A. Ambrose
  • Patent number: 7198614
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for positioning and creating an opening in a person's shirt or blouse at a location that varies depending on the underlying location necessary to perform a medical procedure. The created opening allows access to a porta-cath without requiring the patient to remove his/her shirt/blouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Charlie's Chemo T-Shirts, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles H. Kappauf
  • Patent number: 7181773
    Abstract: A hospital gown for medical procedures such as inserting catheters, heart monitoring, wound dressing and the like and reducing exposure of the patient's “private areas”. The gown has a large upper opening extending across the front of the gown from about the area of the left clavicle of the patient to about the area of the right clavicle of the patient and an arcuate lower portion extending downwardly to about the descending aorta of the patient; a detachable panel for covering the large upper opening; a narrow opening extending across the front of the gown for uncovering portions of the patient's abdomen; a panel for covering the narrow opening; a storage pocket on a front portion of the large upper opening panel; a pair of divided lower side portions for uncovering portions of the patient's groin; and a plurality of fasteners for joining the panels to peripheries of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Mahin Piraka
  • Patent number: 7125400
    Abstract: A wearing article such as a disposable diaper is provided in predetermined regions of the article with hook members. These predetermined regions are elastically stretchable at least in one direction. Each of the hook members includes a plurality of hook assemblies which are, in turn, attached to each of the predetermined regions so as to be spaced apart one from another in the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Takamitsu Igaue, Maki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7114500
    Abstract: A draping system provides a continuous sterile field between a patient incision area and one or more medical practitioners. The draping system has a quick release system incorporated into the drape that enables a medical practitioner to separate from the continuous sterile field without disrupting the sterile field around the practitioner or the patient. The draping system may include an abbreviated practitioner gown, a drain and an integral patient incision area or a flap for extending the continuous sterile field around to one or more additional operating room tables. A modular drape and gown system extends the sterile field beyond the operating table allowing practitioners to couple to the extended field. A tent provides an enclosed sterile field useful in mobile or other non operating room surgical environments. Integral lighting and information displays facilitate field surgical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Marctec, LLC
    Inventor: Peter M. Bonutti
  • Patent number: 7093304
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gown having a gown body, an inflatable chamber capable of selectively inflating and deflating carried by the gown body, and a shaping element carried by the gown body. The shaping element is directly responsive to inflation of the inflatable chamber so that the shaping element is moved from an initial arrangement to a subsequent arrangement by inflation of the chamber. Upon subsequent deflation, the shaping member retains its shape. The entire structure is suitable for the self-assisted donning of a surgical gown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry L. Griesbach, III
  • Patent number: 7073204
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a garment comprising a compartment that can comprise a volume substantially sufficient to contain a medical apparatus. A compartment can be comprised of an inner and an outer layer of material, with the outer layer comprised of two or more releasably attaching outer panels. The inner layer of a compartment can comprise a releasably attachable vertical joint that can allow access to a wearer's body for insertion and manipulation of a medical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Inventor: Kathleen Anne McHugh Boyles
  • Patent number: 7013488
    Abstract: A protective garment, such as a surgical gown, includes a body having a closed front, an open back, and sleeves. The closed front extends below a wearer's knees when the garment is donned. The closed front incorporates a section of elastomeric material that extends generally from an upper chest region of the garment to a location above a bottom edge of the gown that is also below the wearer's knees when the garment is donned. A border region of non-elastomeric material extends generally transversely across the closed front between the bottom edge of the garment and a bottom of the elastomeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea L. Lewis, Julia T. Ambrose
  • Patent number: 7010812
    Abstract: A papilla gown includes a cloth web that is adapted to cover the body of a patient, an elongated hole provided on the cloth web communicating the inside of the cloth web with the outside of the cloth web, a pocket attached to the cloth web, a cover portion that is provided on the outside of the cloth web and covers the hole, and a fastener that fastens the cover portion to the outside of the cloth web. The cover portion is an elongated strip that is pivotally attached to the outside of the cloth web. The hole is aligned with the breast nipple of a wearer and the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Ho Soon Michelle Cho, Jaeeun Paek
  • Patent number: 7003804
    Abstract: A protective garment, such as a surgical gown, includes a front portion, a back portion, and sleeves. A skin wellness agent is deposited on an inner body-facing surface of at least one of the front portion, back portion, and sleeves, and may also be provided in the sleeve cuffs. The skin wellness agent is transferred to the wearer's skin through contact with the inner body-facing surface of the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea L. Lewis
  • Patent number: 6973673
    Abstract: The present invention relates to intrusive device-supporting apparel for covering at least a portion of an upper body of a wearer, which includes a garment adapted to cover a portion of an upper body area, of a wearer, which has a front and a back. There are at least four orifices; one orifice being a neck orifice; two orifices being arm orifices, and one orifice being a bottom orifice. The garment has an inside and an outside, and is made of a washable fabric. At least one strip of fabric is either permanently attached or attachable to a material. The strip of fabric also has an inside and an outside. The strip of fabric is attached so as to render at least a portion of the strip of fabric inside and the strip of fabric outside, accessible to a wearer. There is garment attachment mechanism, which is connected to the strip of fabric. An intrusive device connector is connected to the garment attachment means and is adapted to receive and hold at least one tube for an intrusive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Inventor: Staci J. Beuk
  • Patent number: 6936021
    Abstract: A close-fitting, compression garment is described for providing adjustable compressive force over a surgical site in the dorsocervical region of the human body below the neck, above and between the shoulder blades of the upper back. The vest body portion of the invented garment has graduated or increasing elasticity encircling the upper torso and shoulder region of the body. Wide adjustable elastic pressure bands pressure anchored at the dorsocervical apex at the back of the vest stretch over the shoulders of the patient and adjustably anchored to anchor strips secured to the front chest surface of the vest for establishing compression over a surgical site in the dorsocervical region during recovery as needed both for rehabilitation and comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Veronica C. Smith
  • Patent number: 6851125
    Abstract: A disposable surgical gown includes a main body including a front body and a back body; and sleeves extending from both sides of upper ends of the main body. The main body comprises a plurality of assembly sheets having air permeability and liquid non-permeability. The assembly sheets are bonded to each other along a continuous bonding line extending along edges of the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Michiyo Fujikawa, Akiko Saito, Takeshi Hanajiri
  • Publication number: 20040226072
    Abstract: A specialized female nursing-gown such as for hospital/maternity-ward use as well as for maternity-nursing at home; wherein is provided dual-opposed obliquely arranged slit like vent-apertures facilitating quick and easy breast-feeding by a new mother, in a convenient albeit minimal exposure manner, facilitating semi-privacy appealing to the more private or modest female. Another feature of the garment is its conveniently avulsable sleeve seams, enabling the garment to be readily put-on/taken-off by the user;—thereby obviating potential entanglement with the usually present hospital/I.V.-line. The fashionably simple construction of this garment advantages automatic-closure concealing of the breasts during non-use, along with low-cost and easy maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventor: Regina Holmes-Otto
  • Publication number: 20040226073
    Abstract: A post-surgical garment to be worn on the body of a human or animal patient. The garment includes at least one front panel and at least one back panel, at least one opening formed along the intersection of the front panel and the back panel, and at least one pocket adjacent the at least one opening. A first portion of a medical device is secured in or on the patient's body, and a second portion of the medical device is stored in a pocket of the garment with an intermediate portion of the device extending through the opening through the garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Lisa D. McCullar, Margaret A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 6799332
    Abstract: An examination garment to be worn by a patient during a physical examination includes an upper garment and a lower garment. The upper garment includes a first front panel, a second front panel, a rear panel having an opening for examination of a patient's spine, and fasteners for removably connecting various points of the front and rear panels. The lower garment includes a front panel with a movable front center panel and leg members, a rear panel with a movable rear center panel, leg fasteners for removably connecting the leg members, and panel fasteners for removably connecting rear panel and rear center panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Inventor: Richard L. Hatton
  • Patent number: 6792622
    Abstract: Hospital patient garments that resemble conventional clothing while offering the convenience of conventional hospital gowns comprising a central panel, a first sleeve panel and second sleeve panel connected to opposite side edges of the central panel, first side panel and second side panel connected to opposite side edges of the central panel below the first and second sleeve panels, third sleeve panel and fourth sleeve panel defined between the first and second sleeve panels and side panels, respectively, upper back panel, collar, head and neck opening defined by the central panel, plurality of buttonholes in the first and second sleeve panels and first and second side panels, and a plurality of buttons affixed to the sleeve panels, side panels and center panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventor: Stephen K. Graves
  • Publication number: 20040133963
    Abstract: A garment for a weak or paralyzed patient has handholds to assist a caregiver in moving or positioning the patient. The garment may have a double tail that is passed through the crotch of the patient and fastened on the front of the garment. The tail has left and right portions that pass on opposite sides of the patient's genitals to prevent discomfort caused by compression of the genitals. In another embodiment of the invention, short trousers have a cutout in the crotch area to prevent discomfort to a male patient. The garment includes handholds on an upper front portion of the garment so the patient can be pulled forward to position pillows behind the patient. One construction of the handholds includes dowels forming rigid members to facilitate gripping by a caregiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventor: Barbara Jennings
  • Patent number: 6694521
    Abstract: A gown for premature infants and the like. The gown comprises front and back sections which together envelop the entire body and upper arms of an infant when worn. The rear section is a single piece and the front section comprises a pair of complementary portions. The front and rear sections are permanently connected at a perimeter area of permanent connection proximate the armpits, and remaining perimeter areas can be temporarily connected so that the front body portions are selectively and completely severable from the rear section except at the perimeter area of permanent connection. Tie straps are provided for temporarily connecting front body panel portions to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Inventor: Rosetta L. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 6694522
    Abstract: A hospital gown with multiple adjusting elements includes a plurality of T-shaped hem adjustments along a hem of the hospital gown and a rear closure featuring at least three longitudinal hook fabric strips on an outer surface of the hospital gown on one side of the rear closure of the hospital gown, a single S-shaped loop fabric strip on an inside surface of another side of the rear closure of the hospital gown, the hospital gown adjusting to differing heights and body shapes of hospital patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Inventor: Jay G. Neal
  • Publication number: 20040010837
    Abstract: Hospital patient garments that resemble conventional clothing while offering the convenience of conventional hospital gowns comprising a central panel, a first sleeve panel and second sleeve panel connected to opposite side edges of the central panel, first side panel and second side panel connected to opposite side edges of the central panel below the first and second sleeve panels, third sleeve panel and fourth sleeve panel defined between the first and second sleeve panels and side panels, respectively, upper back panel, collar, head and neck opening defined by the central panel, plurality of buttonholes in the first and second sleeve panels and first and second side panels, and a plurality of buttons affixed to the sleeve panels, side panels and center panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Stephen K. Graves
  • Patent number: 6665880
    Abstract: A sleeve for use in protective garments, the sleeve including a lower edge, an upper edge, and a glove flap. The glove flap may include an upper edge and a positioning feature, the glove flap being disposed between the upper edge of the sleeve and the lower edge of the sleeve, the positioning feature being disposed proximate to the upper edge of the glove flap, the glove flap having sufficient length so that at least a portion of the glove flap may be positioned below the lower edge of the sleeve, the positioning feature adapted to retain the glove flap in such position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay A. Poppe
  • Publication number: 20030229930
    Abstract: A pair of hospital shorts having releasable fasteners such as snaps along the inseam or inner thigh portions of the shorts and along the midline or fly of the shorts. With the fasteners unfastened the shorts are positioned laid out generally flat and approximately centered under the patient. The left and right ends of the shorts are then wrapped over the patient's lower torso, and the inseams and fly may be fastened to provide shorts that do not have to be pulled over the legs of the patient, and that are easily donned or put on the patient with minimal effort. An optional drawstring along an upper edge of the shorts may then be tied, to further secure the shorts about the patient. The fly and/or inseam fasteners may be selectively unfastened to provide access to the user as required, for example by medical personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventor: Melissa L. Carlson
  • Patent number: 6647552
    Abstract: The invention comprises a medical dignity garment with a body portion with a back panel and opposing front panel, a pair of sleeves attached to the body portion and a flap on one of the front panels moveable between open and closed positions relative to a patient's medical access area. The invention also comprises a flap having a horizontal edge extending substantially horizontally above a patient's breast and being releaseably fastened to the one front panel, the flap having a folding edge fixed to the back panel so that the flap is movable upwardly from the closed position to the open position so as to provide access to the patient's medical access area without removing the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Guided Inspiration, Inc.
    Inventor: Mary M. Hogan
  • Publication number: 20030126668
    Abstract: A hospital dressing gown construction 10 adapted to accommodate medical tubing, monitor wires, drains etc., wherein the construction includes a dressing gown member 20 having a generally T-shaped front 40 and rear 30 panels wherein the front panel 40 is provided with a deep V-neck opening 44 and an enlarged aperture 45 covered by a pocket flap 50 that is dimensioned to receive a heart monitor; and, wherein, the front 40 and rear 30 panel members are joined to one another by both permanent seams 39/49 and a plurality of pairs of cooperating hook and loop fasteners 36/46 37/47 etc., to both facilitate the donning of the construction by a patient and to provide unfettered access to the patient's torso by medical personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventor: Georgia W. Scroggins
  • Patent number: 6574800
    Abstract: The invention provides a garment including a torso portion of an extent sufficient to encircle a garment wearer's torso and arm openings provided in the torso portion. Generally vertical and cooperating front torso portion edges are included, providing a vertical front closure of the torso portion. At least one opening in the torso portion is provided. This garment opening is of an extent that is sufficient to accommodate passage of a fluidic tube and a corresponding fluidic receptacle through the opening and to accommodate positioning of at least one fluidic tube to extend from the through the garment opening. At least one fluidic receptacle support is located on an outside surface of the torso portion. The fluidic receptacle support has a receptacle support surface below a point at which a corresponding fluidic tube would be positioned to extend through a corresponding garment opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Inventors: Jayle G. Léger, Lois P. Jenner
  • Publication number: 20030104735
    Abstract: A wind resistant and water vapor permeable composite fabric is provided. The composite fabric includes an inner fabric layer, an outer fabric layer, and an intermediate vapor barrier. The vapor barrier may be selected from an adhesive material or an adhesive/membrane combination that is designed so that the fabric has a variable water vapor diffusion resistance which substantially decreases as air speed impinging on the fabric increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Malden Mills Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Moshe Rock, Vikram Sharma
  • Patent number: 6564386
    Abstract: A disposable surgical gown of back-closable type includes a basic body composed of a front body, first and second rear bodies separated from each other and a pair of sleeves. The first and second rear bodies are in advance developed in a circumferential direction and folded back onto the front body so that free side edge regions of the rear bodies lie on the outer surface of the front body. The free side edge regions are connected to each other by a tape member which has its transversely opposite side regions bonded to the respective free side edge regions at longitudinally middle zones thereof so as to extend in the circumferential direction and a perforation extending in a longitudinal direction between the opposite side regions along which perforation 16 the tape member may be cut off in two in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Michiyo Fujikawa, Akiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20030079272
    Abstract: A sleeve for use in protective garments, the sleeve including a lower edge, an upper edge, and a glove flap. The glove flap may include an upper edge and a positioning feature, the glove flap being disposed between the upper edge of the sleeve and the lower edge of the sleeve, the positioning feature being disposed proximate to the upper edge of the glove flap, the glove flap having sufficient length so that at least a portion of the glove flap may be positioned below the lower edge of the sleeve, the positioning feature adapted to retain the glove flap in such position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay A. Poppe
  • Publication number: 20030051287
    Abstract: An examination garment to be worn by a patient during a physical examination includes an upper garment and a lower garment. The upper garment includes a first front panel, a second front panel, a rear panel having an opening for examination of a patient's spine, and fasteners for removably connecting various points of the front and rear panels. The lower garment includes a front panel with a movable front center panel and leg members, a rear panel with a movable rear center panel, leg fasteners for removably connecting the leg members, and panel fasteners for removably connecting rear panel and rear center panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventor: Richard L. Hatton