Patent Application
20230157423
The present disclosure generally relates to quick-release garments, and more particularly to quick release shirts and pants that may be used in medical settings.
Although there have been many advances in medical technology, a basic medical gown has hardly changed in close to a century. Medical gowns include at least two types, e.g., gowns that are typically worn by patients, and personal protective equipment (PPE) that are typically worn by surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and others with access to patients.
Medical gowns worn by patients are typically open in the back. The gown, if so equipped, may be fastened in the back, which cannot be performed by most patients. Such gowns can be cumbersome to remove from a patient during a procedure, and there is concern of the possible spread of infection handling the gowns.
In addition, as patients may have oxygen masks, breathing tubes, intravenous connections, etc., changing or removing a shirt, pants or a gown of a patient undergoing constant care can be quite cumbersome.
In one embodiment, a quick-release includes a front piece having a first attachment portion, and a back piece having a second attachment portion configured to detachably connect with the first attachment portion of the front piece along a torso of a living body. The front piece and the back piece are configured to form an enclosure that is attachable and detachable directly from the torso portion of the living body.
In an embodiment, the front piece is separate from the back piece, and the first attachment portion includes a first plurality of fasteners. The second attachment portion comprises a second plurality of fasteners aligned with the first plurality of fasteners to detachably connect the front piece and the back piece of the quick-release garment together.
In an embodiment, the first plurality of fasteners and the second plurality of fasteners are snap fasteners.
In an embodiment, each of the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion includes a tie string.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion has a first slot partially enclosing a first tie string, and the second attachment portion has a second slot partially enclosing a second tie string, and the first tie string of the first attachment portion is aligned with the second tie string of the second attachment portion to detachably connect the front piece and the back piece of the quick-release garment together.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion each includes touch fastener strips that are aligned to detachably connect the front piece and the back piece of the quick-release garment together.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion each includes magnetic strips that are aligned to detachably connect the front piece and the back piece of the quick-release garment together.
In an embodiment, the quick-release garment is a shirt.
In an embodiment, the quick-release garment is a pair of pants.
In an embodiment, the quick-release garment is a gown.
In one embodiment, a quick-release garment includes a garment body having a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion. The first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are aligned to detachably connect to form an enclosure around at least a torso portion of a living body. The garment body is attachable and removable directly from the torso portion of the living body.
The first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are aligned to detachably connect to form an enclosure configured to receive at least a portion of a living body.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion detachably connect along a front or a back of the garment body.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion includes a first plurality of fasteners, and the second attachment portion includes a second plurality of fasteners aligned with the first plurality of fasteners to detachably connect the first attachment portion and second attachment portion of the garment body together.
In an embodiment, the first plurality of fasteners and the second plurality of fasteners are snap fasteners.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion includes a first tie string and the second attachment portion includes a second tie string, and at least one of the first plurality of fasteners and the second plurality of fasteners is selected from the group consisting of buttons, zippers, and magnets.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion each includes touch fastener strips that are aligned to detachably connect the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion of the garment body together.
In an embodiment, the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion each includes magnetic strips that are aligned to detachably connect the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion of the garment body together.
In an embodiment, the garment body is seamless.
In an embodiment, the quick-release garment is an article of clothing selected from the group consisting of a gown, a shirt, and pants.
In an embodiment, wherein the first attachment portions and the second attachment portions arranged along center of a single garment body.
These and other features will become apparent from the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments thereof, which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
The drawings are of illustrative embodiments. They do not illustrate all embodiments. Other embodiments may be used in addition to or instead. Details that may be apparent or unnecessary may be omitted to save space or for more effective illustration. Some embodiments may be practiced with additional components or steps and/or without all the components or operations that are illustrated. When the same numeral appears in different drawings, it refers to the same or like components or operations.
In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth by way of examples to provide a thorough understanding of the relevant teachings. However, it should be understood that the present teachings may be practiced without such details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components, and/or circuitry have been described at a relatively high level, without detail, to avoid unnecessarily obscuring aspects of the present teachings.
The term “fasteners” as used herein is to be interpreted broadly and may include any type of elements used to attach portions of a garment. For example, snaps, snap buttons, Velcro® (which is sometimes referred to as “hook and loop” fasteners) zippers, magnets, magnetic strips, etc.
The term “shirt” is to be interpreted broadly, and can include a patient gown. For example, the garment shown in
In a case where the fasteners are magnets, the front fastener 208a and the back fastener 208b are magnets with opposite polarities. For example, the front fasteners 208a may be “N” and the back fasteners 208b may be “S”.
It is to be understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art that the appended claims are not limited to the type of fasteners, nor the quantity of the positions as shown in
It is to be understood that the drawings have been provided for illustrative purposes and do not limit the appended claims of the disclosure. For example, the body of the garment may be seamless (a unitary body) having the first and second attachment portions along a center of a front or a rear of the garment.
The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present teachings have been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the described embodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain the principles of the embodiments, the practical application or technical improvement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodiments disclosed herein.
The components, operations, steps, features, objects, benefits, and advantages that have been discussed herein are merely illustrative. None of them, nor the discussions relating to them, are intended to limit the scope of protection. While various advantages have been discussed herein, it will be understood that not all embodiments necessarily include all advantages. Unless otherwise stated, all measurements, values, ratings, positions, magnitudes, sizes, and other specifications that are set forth in this specification, including in the claims that follow, are approximate, not exact. They are intended to have a reasonable range that is consistent with the functions to which they relate and with what is customary in the art to which they pertain.
Numerous other embodiments are also contemplated. These include embodiments that have fewer, additional, and/or different components, steps, features, objects, benefits and advantages. These also include embodiments in which the components and/or steps are arranged and/or ordered differently.
It will be understood that the terms and expressions used herein have the ordinary meaning as is accorded to such terms and expressions with respect to their corresponding respective areas of inquiry and study except where specific meanings have otherwise been set forth herein. Relational terms such as first and second and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another without necessarily requiring or implying any such actual relationship or order between such entities or actions. The terms “comprises,” “comprising,” or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. An element proceeded by “a” or “an” does not, without further constraints, preclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
