Patent Application
20200329785
This invention relates to clothing. More particularly, it relates to amputee clothing.
Clothing, such as pants and/or shirts, are made for “normal” people. That being people with like length arms and legs. This is fine for most people, but there is an ever-growing population of amputees in our society. Removal of all or part of a limb can be caused by disease, birth defect, automobile accident, armed force conflict, accident, etc.
Clothes are not made to fit the needs of the amputee. Therefore, there is a need to provide clothing that can be used easily and sufficiently by an amputee as well as providing a mechanism to provide warmth to those limbs which may become cold.
The phrases “in one embodiment,” “in various embodiments,” “in some embodiments,” and the like are used repeatedly. Such phrases do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment. The terms “comprising,” “having,” and “including” are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise. Such terms do not generally signify a closed list.
“Above,” “adhesive,” “affixing,” “any,” “around,” “both,” “bottom,” “by,” “comprising,” “consistent,” “customized,” “enclosing,” “friction,” “in,” “labeled,” “lower,” “magnetic,” “marked,” “new,” “nominal,” “not,” “of,” “other,” “outside,” “outwardly,” “particular,” “permanently,” “preventing,” “raised,” “respectively,” “reversibly,” “round,” “square,” “substantial,” “supporting,” “surrounded,” “surrounding,” “threaded,” “to,” “top,” “using,” “wherein,” “with,” or other such descriptors herein are used in their normal yes-or-no sense, not as terms of degree, unless context dictates otherwise.
Reference is now made in detail to the description of the embodiments as illustrated in the drawings. While embodiments are described in connection with the drawings and related descriptions, there is no intent to limit the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications and equivalents. In alternate embodiments, additional devices, or combinations of illustrated devices, may be added to, or combined, without limiting the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein.
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The pants 100 have a main body 101, a first leg 105, a second leg 110, a waist band 115, and a draw string 120. The pants 100 may also have a fly 125 for allowing a male user to relieve himself without taking the pants 100 off. The pants 100 may be made of spandex or partially of spandex, a stretch fabric, etc.
The first leg 105 of the pants 100 may be normal length or may be customized to the length of the stump of the amputee. The length may be modified to accommodate above the knee amputation, below the knee amputation, and the length of the stump of the person. The length of the first leg 105 of the pants 100 for the amputee may help regulate heat more efficiently as well as remove the extra length of the first leg 105 of the pants to avoid catching the first leg 105 of the pants 100.
The second leg 110 of the pants 100 may be normal length or may be customized to the length of the stump of the amputee. The length may be modified to accommodate above the knee amputation, below the knee amputation, and the length of the stump of the person. The length of the second leg 110 of the pants 100 for the amputee may help regulate heat more efficiently as well as remove the extra length of the second leg 110 of the pants 100 to avoid catching the second leg 110 of the pants 100.
The first leg 105 of the pants 100 and/or the second leg 110 of the pants 100 may have a clasping 130 at a bottom end 106 of the first leg 105 of the pants and/or a bottom 111 of the second leg 110 of the pants 100. The clasping 130 may allow the opening and closing of the opening to allow air flow to cool the stump or to close the clasping 130 to aid in retaining heat for the stump.
The waist band 115 may be elastic or may be a buckle or other coupling mechanism. The waist band 115 may have a draw string 120. The draw string 120 is useful for ease of opening or closing the pants 100 such that the amputee may not have to remove the pants 100 in its entirety.
At the bottom end 106 of the first leg 105 of the pants and/or at the bottom end 111 of the second leg 110 of the pants may be an elastic binding 107 to secure the pants 100 on the amputee.
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The arm sleeve 200 has a main body 201, a first elastic band 210 on the upper end 212 of the arm sleeve 200 and has a second elastic band 220 on the lower end 222 of the arm sleeve 200. The first elastic band 210 and second elastic band 220 are useful in securely coupling the arm sleeve 200 onto the arm of the amputee and also for helping to aid in keeping heat inside of the arm sleeve 200 for aid in circulation.
In the numbered clauses below, specific combinations of aspects and embodiments are articulated in a shorthand form such that (1) according to respective embodiments, for each instance in which a “component” or other such identifiers appear to be introduced (with “a” or “an,” e.g.) more than once in a given chain of clauses, such designations may either identify the same entity or distinct entities; and (2) what might be called “dependent” clauses below may or may not incorporate, in respective embodiments, the features of “independent” clauses to which they refer or other features described above.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the foregoing specific exemplary processes and/or devices and/or technologies are representative of more general processes and/or devices and/or technologies taught elsewhere herein, such as in the claims filed herewith and/or elsewhere in the present application.
The features described with respect to one embodiment may be applied to other embodiments or combined with or interchanged with the features of other embodiments, as appropriate, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
