Patent Application
20240172818
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The disclosure relates to bib and more particularly pertains to a new bib for being wearable around a neck of a person who is smoking.
The prior art relates to bibs and includes a variety of bibs being configured for protecting clothing of the user. The prior art further includes a variety of bibs being fire retardant. Known prior art does not include a bib being fire retardant and having a pair of weighted members and a pair of tethers facilitating securing the bib to a person who is smoking.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bib. The bib is wearable around a neck of a person who is smoking and is elongated to cover a torso of the person to inhibit ash created by an article being smoked from falling onto clothing of the person. The bib comprises a flexible fabric composed of a fire resistant material. The bib has a pair of weighted members, a pair of tethers, and a pocket. The pocket is coupled to the bib and includes an open end.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The bib 12 includes a panel 26 including a front surface 28, a rear surface 30, a bottom edge 32, a first side edge 34, a second side edge 36, and a top edge 38. The rear surface 30 is abuttable against the torso 18 of the person 14, wherein the front surface 28 is positionable facing away from the person 14. A pair of flaps 40 is coupled to the top edge 38 and protrudes out therefrom. The flaps 40 are removably abuttable against the shoulders 48 of the person 14, wherein an end 42 of each flap 40 is removably positionable on a back 44 of the person 14. One of the flaps 40 is positioned adjacent to the first side edge 34 and one of the flaps 40 is positioned adjacent to the second side edge 36. A fastener 46 is coupled to the flaps 40 and releasably fastens the flaps 40 to each other. The fastener 46 is releasably fastenable behind a back of the neck 16 of the person 14 when the flaps 40 are positioned on the shoulders 48 of the person 14, wherein the fastener 46 facilitates securing the panel 26 to the person 14. The fastener 46 may include a pair of strap members 50 being coupled to a respective one of the pair of flaps 40. The strap members 50 are releaseably securable to each other and may have a hook and loop fastener 52 or another conventional fastener for being releaseably securable to each other.
The bib 12 has a pair of weighted members 54 and each flap 40 has one of the weighted members 54 being coupled thereto. The weighted members 54 facilitate securing the bib 12 to the person 14 by weighing the bib 12 downwardly onto the person 14. The bib 12 has pair of tethers 56 and one of the tethers 56 is coupled to the first side edge 34 and one of the tethers 56 is coupled to the second side edge 36. The pair of tethers 56 is positionable behind the back 44 of the person 14 and each tether 56 has a coupler 58 for releasably securing the tethers 56 to each other. The coupler 58 may comprise a magnet, wherein each coupler 58 is engageable by magnetism to each other. Each tether 56 may have an adjustment member 60 to adjust a length of each tether 56 relative to the bib 12. The adjustment member 60 may comprise a buckle or another conventional adjuster.
A pocket 62 is coupled to the bib 12 and includes an open end 64. The pocket 62 is positioned in a center of the front surface 28 and the open end 64 typically faces towards the top edge 38. A fold 66 is positioned adjacent to the open end 64 of the pocket 62 and removably closes the open end 64 of the pocket 62. The pocket 62 may removably store articles related to smoking 68 such as a lighter or a pack of cigarettes.
In use, the rear surface 30 of the panel 26 is abutted to the torso 18 of the person 14 who is smoking, and the pair of flaps 40 is abutted to the shoulders 48 of the person 14. The fastener 46 is securable behind the neck 16 of the person 14 thereafter and the pair of tethers 56 may be secured to each other behind the person 14 to facilitate securing the bib 12 to the person 14.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
