Patent Application
20220312869
This invention relates to personal protective equipment (PPE). More particularly, it relates to a cover device form of PPE for protecting against virus and disease.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the United States in Jan. 2020. The first confirmed case of local transmission was recorded in January, while the first known deaths happened in February. By the end of March, cases had occurred in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and all inhabited U.S. territories except American Samoa. As of Jun. 24, 2020, the U.S. had the most confirmed active cases and deaths in the world. As of Jul. 16, 2020, its death rate was 419 per million people, the seventh-highest rate globally.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a recommendation to the US population for prevention of contracting COVID 19 as well as other infectious diseases. Those recommendations are: 1) wash hands often; 2) avoid close contact (social distancing); 3) cover mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others; 4) cover cough or sneezes; 5) clean and disinfect; and 6) monitor your health daily.
Personal protective equipment (PPE such as a face mask or face shield, aims to protect the wearer's entire face (or part of it) from hazards such as flying objects and road debris, chemical splashes (in laboratories or in industry), or potentially infectious materials (in medical and laboratory environments). With the recent CDC guidelines for COVID-19 pandemic, many have turned to shields that cover at least a part of their face, in particular their nose and mouth.
Recent events in our history remind us how susceptible humans are to contaminants in the air we breathe and the bacteria, disease and/or virus that another person may knowingly or unknowingly carry with them. The is currently no PPE available that is available that can allow one with a need or desire to hug another. While PPE is still being developed, it leaves a basic human need for being facilitated.
Accordingly, and in light of the foregoing, there exists a need for a device in a person can be protected from bacteria, virus and other contaminants while hugging another person.
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.
[10] “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.
Referring to
The body protective cover device 100 is made of a clear polyethylene material, however other materials are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, plastic, vinyl, etc. The body protective cover device 100 preferably comes in three (3) sizes, large, medium and small, however any other number of sizes are hereby contemplated.
The large sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a width of six (6) feet, however other widths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, six (6) feet, seven (7) feet, etc. The medium sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a width of four and one-half (4.5) feet, however other widths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, three and one-half (3.5) feet, five (5) feet, etc. The small sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a width of three (3) feet, however other widths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, three and one-fourth (3.25) feet, two (2) feet, etc.
The large sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a length of five (5) feet, however other lengths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, four and one-half (4.5) feet, six (6) feet, etc. The medium sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a length of three (3) feet, however other lengths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, two and three-fourth (2.75) feet, four (4) feet, etc. The small sized body protective cover device 100 preferably has a length of two (2) feet, however other lengths are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, one (1) foot, two and one-fourth (2.25) feet, etc.
The body protective cover device 100 has front 200 (
In
In
The bottom 500 has an opening 501. The opening 501 of the bottom 500 of the body protective cover device 100 is configured to provide access to the inside 400 of the body protective cover device 100 when the person is putting the body protective cover device 100 on.
Moving now to
The body protective cover device 100 is taken out of storage. The body protective device 100 is moved over the head 901 of the person 900, where the arms 904, 905 are placed through the opening 501 of the bottom 500 and inside 400 of the body protective cover device 100.
The arms 904, 905 are used to open the inside 400 of the body protective cover device 100 to allow for the head 901, shoulders 902, 903, arms 904, 905 and torso 906 of the person to be on the inside 400 of the body protective cover device 100. Once in place, the person 900 can enjoy a protective hug where they don't have to worry about being contaminated with a virus, bacteria or infectious disease.
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.
