Patent Application
20230180972
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The disclosure relates to shop towels and more particularly pertains to a new shop towels for adhering to and covering the exterior of a garment to allow for wiping of the hands without soiling the garment.
The prior art relates to shop towels.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a base layer, the base layer being impermeable by fluids. An outer layer is coupled to and coextensive with the base layer. The outer layer is constructed of a fluid absorbent material. An inner layer is coupled to the base layer such that the base layer is between the outer layer and the inner layer. The inner layer is adherent for adhering to a garment such that the outer layer is exposed on the garment.
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 cover layer 22 is removably coupled to and covers the inner layer 16. The cover layer 22 has a peripheral edge 24 which is offset from a perimeter edge 26 of the inner layer 16 such that the cover layer 22 extends outwardly from the perimeter edge 26 of the inner layer 16. The cover layer 22 is constructed of a wax paper material defined generally as a paper material covered by or impregnated by a wax substance to facilitate removing of the cover layer 22 from the inner layer 16.
Each of the base layer 12, the outer layer 14, and the inner layer 16 is rectangular. The size of the shop towel device 10 is such that it is sufficiently large to facilitate wiping of a hand on the outer layer 14 and absorption of any substance on the hands without the substance being wiped off of the outer layer 14 and onto the garment 18. It is contemplated the thinness of the outer layer 14 will result in saturation of the outer layer 14 in the immediate area where the hands are wiped but the size will allow for wiping in unsaturated areas to sufficiently clean the hands. As such, each of the base layer 12, the outer layer 14, and the inner layer 16 has a length greater than 6 inches and up to 24 inches, although the length may further be greater than 24 inches. Each of the base layer 12, the outer layer 14, and the inner layer 16 has a width greater than 6 inches and up to 24 inches, although the length may further be greater than 24 inches.
The base layer 12, outer layer 14, and inner layer 16 may also be stacked in sequence such that removal of the inner layer 16 from the outer layer 14 of an adjacently stacked shop towel device 10 also for sequential dispensing of individual sheets. The cover layer 22 may be attached to the inner layer 16 of a bottommost positioned shop towel device 10 in the stack.
In alternative embodiments, the inner layer 16, base layer 12, and outer layer 14 may be cut into a plurality of geometric shapes on the cover layer 22 to allow for the geometric shapes to be removed from the cover layer 22 and positioned on the garment 18 in a desired place. The geometric shapes may be large enough to allow for wiping of the hands or sized to allow for specific placement to cover a desired portion of the garment 18.
In use, the cover layer 22 is removed from the inner layer 16 and the inner layer 16 is positioned in a desired place on the garment 18. The shop towel device 10 adheres to the garment 18. The shop towel device 10 is positioned on the garment 18 in an area easily accessed for wiping a hand on the outer layer 14. When done or the outer layer 14 is substantially or fully saturated, the shop towel device 10 can be removed from the garment 18 and thrown away. If needed another shop towel device 10 can be placed onto the garment 18.
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.
