Patent Application
20240407479
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The disclosure relates to salon cape and more particularly pertains to a new salon cape for facilitating a user to view a handheld device while wearing the salon cape.
The prior art discloses several examples of salon capes which have a viewing window positioned in a front portion of a salon cape for viewing a handheld device such as a phone or a tablet. However, these devices are restrictive in that the viewing window only covers a portion of the salon cape. An improved design allowing the wearer of the salon cape to view the device in a greater region around the user is therefore desirable.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a sheet which is flexible and translucent throughout such that the sheet is configured for facilitating viewing objects through the sheet. The sheet has a first edge and a second edge and has a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge each extending between the first edge and the second edge. The sheet has a hole extending therethrough which is shaped such that the hole is configured for extending around a neck of a user.
Another embodiment of the disclosure generally comprises a method of viewing a handheld device while wearing a salon cape apparatus. The method includes positioning the salon cape apparatus on a user such that the salon cape apparatus surrounds a neck of the user, thereby positioning a head of the user and a hand of the user on opposite sides of the salon cape apparatus. The sheet is translucent throughout such that the sheet is configured for facilitating viewing objects through the sheet. The handheld device is positioned in a hand of the user such that the handheld device is viewable by the user through the sheet.
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 rim 32 is coupled to the sheet 12 and extends along each of an outer edge 34 of the sheet 12, a first edge 38 of the slit 30, a second edge 40 of the slit 30, and a perimeter edge 36 of the hole 24. The rim 32 is flexible and may comprise a woven fabric, a plastic sheet, or the like. The rim 32 is visually distinct from the sheet 12 to facilitate identifying the locations of the outer edge 34 of the sheet 12, the first and second edges 38, 40 of the slit 30, and the perimeter edge 36 of the hole 24. The rim 32 is also opaque.
A closure 42 is coupled to the sheet 12 for releasably preventing the slit 30 from opening. The closure 42 comprises a first mating member 44 and a second mating member 46. The first mating member 44 is coupled to the sheet 12 adjacent to the first edge 38 of the slit 30, and the second mating member 46 is coupled to the sheet 12 adjacent to the second edge 40 of the slit 30. The closure 42 comprises a plurality of snap buttons 48 which is distributed along the slit 30, but the closure 42 may comprise a zipper, hook-and-loop fastener, or the like.
In use, the user 26 wears the salon cape apparatus 10 such that the hole 24 extends around the neck 28 of the user 26, and the closure 42 is secured closed to keep the slit 30 from opening and retaining the salon cape apparatus 10 on the user 26. The sheet 12 prevents cut pieces of hair, spilled hair treatment fluids, and the like from falling onto the user's 26 body 50 while facilitating the user 26 to view a handheld device 52 such as a phone, a video game console, a tablet, a book, or the like through the sheet 12.
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.
