Patent Application
20200305515
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The present invention relates generally to under garments. More particularly and not exclusively, the present invention relates to underwears having improved accommodation for putting on (doning) and taking off underwear, and further enabled to absorb leaks, fluids, menstrual fluids, urinary and rectum discharges, and water when wearing in place.
Women generally menstruate once a month for a period of three to seven days. During the menstrual period, women typically use either sanitary pads or tampons to absorb menstruation fluid and to prevent staining of garments. Women typically wear underwears not designed for menstruation. Some of the available underwears are provisioned for accommodating sanitary pads or tampons. However, both the sanitary pads and the tampons do not prevent staining of the underwears. The regular underwear does not provide the required protection from staining. The stained underwear further stains an outer garment worn by women.
Furthermore, the sanitary underwears available today are made of plastic and non-breathable materials. Therefore, these underwears are uncomfortable to wear. The underwears made of non-breathable materials increase the risk of rashes and skin problems for women wearing underwears. Moreover, the underwears made of the non-breathable materials create a bad odour. Furthermore, the design of the underwear typically used by women is not suitable for preventing leaks in susceptible areas and thereby stains both the underwear and the outer garment worn by women.
Therefore, there is an unmet need for a sanitary underwear made of breathable materials. Moreover, there is an unmet need for a sanitary underwear designed to prevent leakage of the menstrual fluid from any portion of the sanitary underwear and to prevent staining of the outer garment worn by women. Further, there is no underwear which promotes safety by preventing falls and injuries, meaning the consumer can put on and take off underwear without lifting the legs, which is the why there is need of present invention as when people lose their balance and thus fall and have injuries. The side attachable pads eliminate the need to lift the leg off the floor to ‘step’ into and out of underwear. This feature benefits senior people, medical patients, maternity patients, people suffering from Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), differently abled, and people desiring an alternative to ‘traditional’ underwear. Furthermore, there is an unmet need for an underwear allowing air permeability, maintaining dryness, and preventing odour, rashes and infections.
There is a need for underwears which are unisex as well as regular panties. The further need for panties out to a need to promote safety when putting on and taking off underwear. In the prior art, the applicant is aware of U.S. Pat. No. 5,029,345 issued to Angheluta, et al, on Jul. 9, 1991, entitled Man's Underwear with an Integral Codpiece-like Construction. Angheluta discloses a man's garment, particularly a man's underwear garment, providing a codpiece compartment secured to a front of a trunk pad of the garment.
It is found that none of the earlier inventions and patents, taken either singly or in combination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed. Therefore, the inventor of the present invention proposes to resolve and surmount existent technical difficulties to eliminate the aforementioned shortcomings of the prior art.
Few of the Objects of the Present invention are as follows:
Other objects, aspects, features and goals of the present invention will be better understood from the following detailed description.
In light of the disadvantages of the prior art, the following summary is provided to facilitate an understanding of some of the innovative features unique to the present invention and is not intended to be a full description. A full appreciation of the various aspects of the invention can be gained by taking the entire specification, claims, drawings, and abstract as a whole.
Principally, in accordance with the most preferred embodiment of the present invention, a sanitary underwear with a detachably attachable organic pad is provided. The underwear as disclosed in the present invention includes side fasteners having one piece adjustable organic pad extending from the front center belly button and passing through the center of the middle crotch area up the back center to the waistband. The fastened organic pad facilitates a plurality of benefits like reduced risk of carcinogens caused by harmful pesticides and chemicals, promotion of sustainable environment, eco-friendliness, enhancement of social responsibility, restriction on the usage of dyes releasing carcinogens, reduction in the risk of falls and injuries during donning and doffing of the undergarment, to name a few. The underwear further facilitates the absorption of leaks, perspiration, feces, stains, menstrual fluids, urinary and rectum discharges. The underwear promotes fair wages and trade. The absorbent material used in the organic pad of the underwear is either an organic cotton, or a hemp, or a bamboo, or an organic terry cloth, jute and any combination thereof. The fastener for fastening the organic pad to the waist portion of the underwear is either hook and eye, or bra attachment, or frog closure, or magnetic buttons, or buttons, or ties, or cords, or ribbons, or clamps, or snaps, or strings, or zippers, or drawstrings, or an elastic button hole, or flatweaves, or flat braids or any combination thereof.
Typically, in accordance with the most preferred embodiment of the present invention, the underwear of the present invention is capable of usage by medical patients, or patients in a hospital, or pregnant women, or wheelchair-bound patients, or person with Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD), or injured Veterans, or people desiring a change from the appearance of traditional underwear.
This Summary is provided merely for purposes of summarizing some example embodiments, so as to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the subject matter described herein. Accordingly, it will be appreciated that the above-described features are merely examples and should not be construed to narrow the scope or spirit of the subject matter described herein in any way. Other features, aspects, and advantages of the subject matter described herein will become apparent from the following detailed description, figures, and claims.
The foregoing summary, as well as the following detailed description of the invention, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, exemplary constructions of the invention are shown in the drawings. However, the invention is not limited to the specific methods and instrumentalities disclosed herein. The accompanying drawings illustrate the best mode for carrying out the invention as presently contemplated and set forth hereinafter. The present invention may be more clearly understood from a consideration of the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein like reference letters and numerals indicate the corresponding parts in various figures in the accompanying drawings, and in which:
Detailed descriptions of the preferred embodiment are provided herein. It is to be understood, however, that the present invention may be embodied in various forms. Therefore, specific details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but rather as a basis for the claims and as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to employ the present invention in virtually any appropriately detailed system, structure or manner.
There are four major parts; 1) front, 2) middle or crotch, and 3) back, and 4) attached pad that goes from the front center belly button pass across the crotch/middle section up the back rear center waistband. One pad (either front or rear, respectively) is secured about the pelvis area, the panties are carried across the crotch area to the other pad (either rear or front, respectively) and secured in place by using different means, methods, mechanism, fabric, accessories, and fasteners, etc.
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The detachably attachable organic pad 2 is made of cotton, hemp, bamboo or jute. The detachably attachable organic pad 2 is fixed in the center of the underwear 1. The detachably attachable organic pad 2 is designed to absorb fluids, liquids, leaks, discharges, urine, faeces, menstrual fluids, stains, and more.
The open flat underwear has pleats for unisex reasons. To put detachably attachable organic pad 2 on this underwear, completely open the underwear on a flat surface, such as the corner of a bed or stable chair. Sit your rear human bottom/butt directly on the back pad, reach between the legs to pull the front pad across the urinary/pelvis area. The middle pad 2 should cover the human crotch area. Close the underwear, by utilizing the side closures to securely complete the dressing process before standing up from the bed or chair.
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The sanitary underwear in accordance with the most preferred embodiment of the present invention drastically promotes safety by reducing lower torso movement when lifting a foot off the floor to step into a traditional panty leg opening.
The center pad that is made from organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, and/or other organic terry cloth fabrics that can absorb leaks, fluids, menstrual fluids, urinary, and rectum discharges, and water when wearing in place. The versatile center pad can be removed, washed, discarded, or replaced as needed.
Organic cotton that has been certified will reduce carcinogens and reduce the risk of that can be absorbed in the skin. Organic cotton reduces harmful chemicals and pesticides that can lead to long term medical complications and hospitalization.
The sanitary underwear in accordance with the most preferred embodiment of the present invention drastically promotes safety while reducing falls and injuries when donning and doffing underwear in a sitting position.
The sanitary underwear in accordance with the most preferred embodiment of the present invention reduces falls and injuries for seniors are vital. The most common injury to seniors occurs because of falls and injuries, such as a broken bone from a fall.
Injured Veterans with medical challenges will benefit from the ease of putting on and taking off this underwear.
Medical patients will benefit from this underwear because this underwear requires minimum lower torso movement to put on and take off. Hospital patients can put on and take off this underwear by ‘opening’ this underwear on a hospital bed, so the underwear is flat in the center of the bed.
The hospital patient can turn on the side to start the process of putting on this underwear, then turn to the opposite side to complete the robe process.
Maternity patients, who cannot see where to step into traditional underwear will prevent falls and possible injuries to the fetus and mom-to-be. Some people might want a change from traditional underwear that requires lifting the legs and maintaining the balance when getting dress. Some people will want a change from the appearance of traditional underwear.
While a specific embodiment has been shown and described, many variations are possible. With time, additional features may be employed. The particular shape or configuration of the platform or the interior configuration may be changed to suit the system or equipment with which it is used.
Wheelchair patients will benefit from the use of this underwear due to reduced lower torso movement. This underwear can be placed completely open with the rear pad in the wheelchair. The person can seat in the wheelchair on the rear underwear pad and pull the front pad in between the legs and attached on each side.
Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) society will benefit from the use of this underwear due to reduce lower torso movement and ease of muscle movement with the hook and eye, magnetic button, and more closures. This underwear can be placed completely open on the middle-edge of a bed, center of a stable chair, or a secure, stable, and safe location. Once the underwear is completely open, the IDD person will sit on the rear underwear pad and pull the front pad in between the legs across the crotch/pad area and close the underwear on each side.
Having described the invention in detail, those skilled in the art will appreciate that modifications may be made to the invention without departing from its spirit. Therefore, it is not intended that the scope of the invention be limited to the specific embodiment illustrated and described. Rather, it is intended that the scope of this invention be determined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
The abstract of the disclosure is provided to allow the reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing detailed description, it can be seen that various features are grouped together in various embodiments for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus the following claims are hereby incorporated into the detailed description, with each claim standing on its own as a separately claimed subject matter.
These underwears are unisex as well as regular panties. I have invented these panties out to a need to promote safety when putting on and taking off underwear.
Technical Advantages and Economic Significance of the Present Invention
The present invention provides a sanitary underwear with adjustable organic pad. The underwear in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention prevents leaks in susceptible areas and thereby further prevents stains in both the underwear and the outer garment worn by women. The underwear promotes safety by preventing falls and injuries, meaning the user can put on and take off underwear without lifting the legs. The underwear of the present invention with adjustable organic pad provides comfort to senior people, medical patients, maternity patients, people suffering from Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), differently abled, and people desiring an alternative to ‘traditional’ underwear. Further, the adjustable organic pad of the underwear of the present invention allows air permeability and maintains dryness thereby preventing odour, rashes and infections.
Many modifications and other embodiments of the invention will come to the mind of one skilled in the pertinent art having the benefit of teaching presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is understood that the invention is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed and that modifications and variations of the disclosed embodiments are intended to be included as readily appreciated by those skilled in the pertinent art. It is contemplated that these modifications and variations be included within the scope and ambit of the instant invention which is defined by the following claims.
