Bodysuit Completely Dismantles for Special Needs Individuals

Abstract

A bodysuit, the front torso being a continuous piece of material with spaces for arms. The left of the garment meeting the right by fasteners of prior art, to fasten down the middle rear of the torso, to above the buttocks. The bottom front conventionally cut to accommodate legs but with an elongated piece of material or flap, fashioned to create a crotch area, for female or male genitals. The flap being long enough to fasten at the rear above the buttocks. The flap of the long-legged version of the garment, containing a pocket for male genitals. Fasteners can be reinforced with double fasteners and cross closures, to make it difficult for the wearer to undo. All fasteners closing at the rear of the garment to accommodate more control over diaper changes and to prevent wearers from easily removing or accessing inside the garment.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Not Applicable

1. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Inventor is the mother of a mentally challenged child who will never be able to go to the restroom unaccompanied and will wear diapers throughout life. Now the child is entering puberty, mother has invented this product to ensure that during diaper changes movement of the child can be limited. Thus, although the garment can be made for any stage of life it provides the novelty of bodysuits of this type, being created with the mentally challenged adolescent child in mind. Bodysuits as articles of clothing as herein disclosed, can be worn by both males and females with mental disabilities for the purposes of protecting the wearer from dismantling diapers, under garments or accessing inside diapers, while allowing natural unrestrictive movement like conventional underwear. It also allows the guardian to dismantle the garment in a way that can assist in restricting movement of the wearer's arms and legs that can typically cause changing these children or individuals very difficult, by having the child or young adult placed on the stomach while being able to fully dismantle the garment from the back.

2. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A one-piece bodysuit garment, which completely dismantles from the back potion of the torso from a series of fasteners of prior art that will hold the garment in place. The garment being a continuous piece of material with spaces for arms and shoulders of the wearer to cut out portions for legs at the base of the garment to accommodate legs. The garment having an elongated U-shaped piece of material or flap hanging at the groin area in the front of the garment making, being long enough and fashioned in a style to accommodate the groin area, as covering for the female or male genitals, that having gone through the legs, will fasten or pin to the back of the garment around the buttock area. The elongated U-shaped flap in the male version of the garment containing a pocket to specifically accommodate male genitals. Both versions of the garment having leotard style legs with longer leg portions for a body suit styled garment particularly for the male version but being able to be constructed for both male and female forms. Fasteners being conventional prior art devices, whether hook & eyes, buttons, clips or other fastener devices, already in use in the industry. The garment being fastened in the rear to accommodate specifically, special needs from children to adults stages, who require changes throughout their life span and specifically allows for changes on the stomach, prevents the wearer from easily removing the garment once on, or sticking their hands into the garment once on, which assists caretakers limit the challenges constant movement of these children can pose to changes.

3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL VIEWS O THE DRAWING(S)

The accompanying drawings are not intended to be drawn to scale. In the drawings, each identical or nearly identical component that is illustrated in various figures is represented by a like numeral. To clarify, not every component may be labeled in every drawing.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a front view of the bodysuit according to the short-legged version of one embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the bodysuit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an exploded frontal view of the short-legged version of the bodysuit according to another embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a front view of the bodysuit according to the long-legged version of one embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a front view of the bodysuit according to the long-legged embodiment of FIG. 4 disclosing the flap of material when fastened will construct the groin area of the garment;

FIG. 6 is a partial view of solely the flap of material that when fastened will construct the groin area of the garment;

FIG. 7 is a rear view of the bodysuit of FIG. 4 showing when the front flap or panel is not closed;

FIG. 8 illustrates the partial rear view, which is solely the bottom half of FIG. 7 showing more closely the construction of long-legged version of the garment when completely fastened.

4. LIST OF DRAWING FIGURES

FIG. 1 Frontal view short-legged version

FIG. 2 Rear view short-legged version

FIG. 3 Frontal view short-legged version dismantled at the fasteners

FIG. 4 Frontal view long-legged version

FIG. 5 Dismantled flap and frontal view long-legged version displaying dismantled flap

FIG. 6 Rear view long-legged version fastened, and

FIG. 7 Rear closer view long-legged version fastened

5. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The disclosed embodiments are generally directed to bodysuits, and more particularly to bodysuits with full dismantling structures and methods of manufacture. The bodysuit intended for wear not as underwear, or exercise gear but over diapers of children to adults, between the ages of seven (7) years old and up that have mental special needs. The construction of the garment being used as a diaper changing aid, as well as aiding in the prevention of the wearer accessing inside the diaper, from the top or sides of the diaper, while wearing over garments, such as normal clothing. The bodysuit comprising of a panel having a conventional neck, arm, and leg openings in the torso of the garment, either cut from one continuous panel of material or three panels, the front panel stitched, to the back left panel from the underarm to left leg opening, and stitched to the right back panel, also from the underarm to the right leg opening, to form a continuous piece of material as in expanded view of the garment depicted in FIG. 3. This continuous panel having fasteners of prior art whether buttons, hook and eyes, clips, etc., down the edge of the length of the left and right panels, to fastening in the middle of the back, to prevent the wearer as far as possible from accessing these fasteners.

The front panel having as part of its continuity, a flap cut to form the crotch area of the garment being wider at the front of the crotch area of the garment, narrower in the middle, yet wide enough to fully cover the average incontinence undergarment or diaper, having elasticity to accommodate the hugging of the crotch area for female genitals as in FIG. 1, and having extra material sewn to form a pocket in the front of the flap, to accommodate male genitalia all the way to behind the scrotum and without the traditional opening, used to access the penis for urinating purposes, as in FIG. 5. Continuing in the fashion of the female flap, to widen at the back of the garment having fasteners on the hem of the flap that close to accommodating fastener parts, above the buttock area in the back of the garment, as in FIG. 6.

Further in the male version of the crotch area, are two additional pieces of material stitched to the middle of the back part of the pocket in the flap, situated in area behind the scrotum, one on the left side of the bodysuit to cover the remaining parts of the flap on that side of the crotch, with fasteners down the hem of that material that close into accommodating fastener parts on the left back side of the leg as in FIG. 7 of the drawings, FIG. 8 being a closer view of the same aspect of the garment. The other additional piece of material sewn from the middle of the right part of the crotch, again, to cover the remaining crotch area on the right side of the garment, having fasteners down the hem of that material that close into accommodating fastener parts on the right back side of the leg as in FIG. 7. The back panels, both left and right, having a cut the hem of which is surrounded by fasteners, to accommodate the fasteners on the flap, as in FIG. 2.

Fasteners down the middle back of garment, on the back of the flap in the crotch for the short and long legged version and additionally at the back of the legs for the long legged version of the garment are with clasps, buttons or other fasteners of prior art, intermittently spaced on adjacent edges which can further be reinforced by additional security features such as velcro or an additional flap of material with fasteners to reinforce preventative measures for the wearer to access and undo said fasteners as displayed in FIGS. 2 and 7. The concept of the double fasteners giving the changer of a child that is unable to keep still a quicker chance to reinforce the garment lowering the time the child's genitals are exposed by placing the child on its stomach during changes to prevent the young one for also using hands or toes to access the crotch area until the crotch area has been adequately cleaned and sanitized. Double fasteners also make it more difficult for these children and adults from accessing inside their undergarments while clothed making it more difficult to open.

The hem of the neck, arms and legs openings being wider than usual but being lined with non-stretchable material to prevent the wearer forcing apart the material to gain access through these portions of the garment to under garments. The ability to unfasten the garment from the back offers care givers of special needs children a chance to change diapers of these children and young adults with minimal movement by the child or young adult making cleaning them easier. The intermittently spaced detachably fasteners may comprises conventional buttons, snaps, zippers, hook and loop patches, zip lock fasteners, magnets, etc. secured to or sewn into or onto the garment's openable and closable seam joining edges.

Claims

1. a bodysuit comprising of a front and rear panel bound or stitched together in a conventional way at the shoulders and sides leaving openings for arms and shoulders, fastening to the back panel of the garment which has left and right sides that close or fastened together down the middle of the back, from the neck to above the buttocks, the back panel having a u-shaped cut out in the material, which is surrounded by fasteners of conventional art, where the front matching u-shaped styled flap of the continuous front panel will fasten to the fasteners surrounding the u-shape cut out in the back panel

2. a bodysuit of claim 1, with the intention of being worn over already adorned undergarments, mainly diapers but can be used as an undergarment itself

3. a bodysuit of claim 1, where the front panel is fashioned in one continuous piece of cloth, extending from the neck to an elongated u-shaped crotch area

4. a bodysuit of claim 1, where the back panel comprises a left side stitched in a longitudinal fashion to the left side of front panel, extending in a latitudinal manner to the middle of the back, lined with male fasteners from the neck area, down the middle of the back, stopping at the top of the buttocks

5. a bodysuit of claim 3, where the back panel comprises of a right side stitched in a longitudinal fashion to the front panel down the right side, extending in a latitudinal manner to the middle of the back, lined with female fasteners from the neck area, down the middle of the back, stopping at the top of the buttocks

6. a bodysuit of claim 2, where the u-shaped cloth encompasses a crotch area fashioned with surrounding seams and lined to accommodate female or male genitalia as in conventional undergarments but extending further into an elongated U-shaped piece of material or flap

7. a bodysuit of claim 5, where the elongated u-shaped piece of material or flap containing fasteners sewn into surrounding the u-shape will fasten to matching fasteners on the back panel of the garment

8. a bodysuit of claim 1, where the back panel when fastened together down the middle comprises of an elongated upside down u-shaped cut out in the material starting from above the buttock area down to the middle part of the back of each leg

9. a bodysuit of claim 7, where the upside down u-shaped cut out in the material is surrounded by inlayed fasteners

10. a bodysuit of claim 1, where the front and back panels when fastened together will comprises a full bodysuit that can only be opened from the back of the garment

11. a bodysuit of claim 9, where the fasteners can be reinforced by pieces of Velcro material sewn width ways across the fasteners down the middle of the back at intervals or in one continuous flap

12. a bodysuit according to claim 10, where the fasteners at the back of the leg area can be reinforced by flaps of Velcro material sewn to close width ways across the fasteners at the back of the leg at the bottom of the garment

13. a bodysuit according to claims 9 and 10, where the effect of the flaps of material running width ways is to conceal the fasteners below it, ensuring further difficulty from removal of the garment by the wearer