Patent Application
20180116858
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The disclosure and prior art relates to garment devices and more particularly pertains to a new garment device for restraining a paralyzed user's legs.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pair of pants that may be worn. The pair of pants include a first leg and a second leg. A pair of first straps is provided and each of the first straps is coupled to the first leg. A pair of second straps is provided and each of the second straps is coupled to the second leg. Each of the second straps is matable with the first straps. Thus, each of the first straps and the second straps inhibit legs of a paralyzed user from being moved apart from each other thereby inhibiting the paralyzed user's legs from being injured.
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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A pair of first straps 24 is provided. Each of the first straps 24 is coupled to the first leg 14 and each of the first straps 24 may be manipulated. Each of the first straps 24 is positioned on the first surface 18 corresponding to the first leg 14. Moreover, each of the first straps 24 has a distal end 26 with respect to the first leg 14. A pair of first fasteners 28 is provided. Each of the first fasteners 28 is slidably coupled to the distal end 26 of an associated one of the first straps 24.
A pair of second straps 30 is provided. Each of the second straps 30 is coupled to the second leg 16 and each of the second straps 30 may be manipulated. Each of the second straps 30 is positioned on the first surface 20 corresponding to the second leg 16. Moreover, each of the second straps 30 has a distal end 32 with respect to the second leg 16. Each of the second straps 30 is aligned with an associated one of the first straps 24.
A pair of second fasteners 34 is provided. Each of the second fasteners 34 is slidably coupled to the distal end 32 of an associated one of the second straps 30. Moreover, each of the second fasteners 34 is complementary with respect to the first fasteners 28. Thus, each of the first straps 24 and the second straps 30 inhibit legs 36 of a paralyzed user 22 from being moved apart from each other. Thus, the first straps 24 and the second straps 30 inhibit the paralyzed user's legs 36 from being injured. Each of the first fasteners 28 and the second fasteners 34 may be belt buckles or the like.
In use, the pants 12 are worn by the paralyzed user 22. Each of the first straps 24 is coupled to an associated one of the first straps 24. Thus, each of the paralyzed user's legs 36 is inhibited from being moved apart from each other. The pants 12 facilitate the paralyzed user 22 to be transported to a wheelchair while restraining the paralyzed user's legs 36. Moreover, the pants 12 inhibit the paralyzed user's legs 36 from falling off of footrests on the wheelchair. Thus, the pants 12 inhibit the paralyzed user's legs 36 from being injured when the paralyzed user 22 is in the wheelchair. Additionally, the pants 12 inhibits the paralyzed user's legs 36 from moving due to involuntary muscle spasms.
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.
