U.S. patent application number 12/926685 was filed with the patent office on 2011-06-09 for short camisole with lumbar and cervical cushion.
Invention is credited to Aida Edith Sterin Pryne, Felix Gustavo Pryne.
Application Number | 20110131701 12/926685 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 43741551 |
Filed Date | 2011-06-09 |
United States Patent
Application |
20110131701 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Pryne; Aida Edith Sterin ;
et al. |
June 9, 2011 |
Short camisole with lumbar and cervical cushion
Abstract
A short camisole similar to the textile item of clothing worn by
persons interned in clinics, hospitals and sanatoriums, comprising
a spacious cover envelope having a back or dorsal part (1) and a
front part (2), the camisole being open at its sides or at the
front part and sleeveless, preferably with tying strips that
stretch out at the waist area. Thicker soft parts (3) and (4)
coincide with the neck upper edge and the dorsal central part, the
thicker soft parts being shaped by the respective cushions (5) and
(6) housed in the corresponding cover cases (7) and (8) which are
bound to the body of the short camisole by seams.
Inventors: |
Pryne; Aida Edith Sterin;
(Buenos Aires, AR) ; Pryne; Felix Gustavo; (Buenos
Aires, AR) |
Family ID: |
43741551 |
Appl. No.: |
12/926685 |
Filed: |
December 3, 2010 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/114 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 13/1245
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
2/114 |
International
Class: |
A41D 13/12 20060101
A41D013/12 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Dec 3, 2009 |
AR |
AR20090104684 |
Claims
1. A short camisole with lumbar and cervical cushions, of the type
worn by persons interned at clinics, hospitals and sanatoriums,
comprising a spacious cover envelope having a back or dorsal part
and a front part open at its sides or at the front part and
sleeveless, preferably having tying strips stretching out at the
waist area, characterized in that coinciding with the upper edge of
the neck and the dorsal central zone, the camisole includes soft
thicker parts, shaped by the respective cushions housed in the
corresponding cover cases.
2. A short camisole with lumbar and cervical cushions according to
claim 1, characterized in that the cover cases housing their
respective cushions are bound to the body of the short camisole by
means of seams.
3. A short camisole with lumbar and cervical cushions according to
claim 1, characterized in that the cover cases housing their
respective cushions include a lineal access opening, thus allowing
the cushions to be inserted and removed.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention mainly relates to a short camisole
with a lumbar cushion and a cervical cushion, especially designed
and conceived to be worn by patients confined in hospitals, clinics
and sanatoriums.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] More precisely, the present invention relates to a short
textile camisole as worn by people confined in the above referred
hospitals, comprising a spacious cover envelope with lateral or
front opening and being sleeveless, preferably with tying strips
stretching out at the waist area.
[0003] These short camisoles should be very light, made of soft and
light fabric, capable of fitting persons of different sizes and
particularly simple to be handled by nurses and physicians as to
easily access patients for their treatment.
[0004] Furthermore, these short camisoles are usually made of
fabric capable of supporting multiple washings and disinfections,
and therefore they should be preferably of simple construction.
[0005] In this sense, it may be stated that the prior art shows two
types of short camisoles, both based on the same wearing and
operating principle, which may be observed in most patients
interned in sanatoriums and hospitals.
[0006] Both short camisole models comprise a front and a dorsal
part that, in one of the cases, stretches out from the line of the
shoulders of the person wearing it, keeping separated by the sides.
In this case, an upper neck opening preferably shaped in the front
part is included and complemented with tying strips that stretch
out from the intermediate points of its vertical side borders.
[0007] In other cases, both parts, the front and the dorsal parts,
are included, keeping bound by their sides, shaping broad
sleeveless upper side openings to let the patient's arms pass
through, being characterized by the front part being centrally open
in such a way that on being arranged so as to close the item of
clothing, two lateral parts partially overlapped are shaped. In the
waist area, tying strips are also included in order to stabilize
the closing position
[0008] It is worth noting that all these textile pieces of clothing
have been designed and conceived taking into account the uses,
needs and requirements to be met in sanatoriums and hospitals, in
all cases aimed at treatments that patients must undergo and
considering that, in many cases, patients must be monitored or
assisted by means of apparatus and devices that should possibly be
in contact and even enter the patient's body without the short
camisole being an obstacle or hinder whatsoever.
[0009] Likewise, the design of these pieces of clothing for
hospitalized people also contemplates those cases in which patients
are prostrated and must therefore be regularly washed with the
assistance of other persons, as they cannot move by themselves. In
such a case, the nurse, when operating, shall be capable of moving
the piece of clothing partially, with no need to remove it from the
patient, thus easily washing him/her.
[0010] Nevertheless, no camisoles or short camisoles to be worn in
hospitals and sanatoriums contemplating the needs inherent to each
patient so as to improve his/her comfort, or at least, relieve
his/her pain during their stay, are known to present.
[0011] In that sense, it is worth noting the muscle pain problem
often suffered when a patient remains immobilized for a long time,
either lying on bed or seated.
[0012] Nurses may relieve them by means of some massage or by
changing patients from one position to another, but not always do
they have enough time or is a long relief is attained.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION--ADVANTAGES
[0013] The short camisole according to the present invention that
is to be worn in hospitals and sanatoriums differs from all short
camisoles of the same type known to date by having a first soft
cushion at its upper central part, combined with a second cushion
arranged at a central inner zone of the dorsal part.
[0014] In this way, a patient will count on a soft cervical cushion
to support his/her head, allowing in this way for a more natural
and relieving position, particularly when they should stay
immobilized for many hours.
[0015] The same relieving function is obtained by means of the
central cushion arranged at the patient's lumbar area, in such a
way that it allows for a natural position to be adopted while being
relaxed.
[0016] Preferably, both cushions are arranged as to be housed in
their respective textile pockets or cover cases that are sewed to
the body of the short camisole at mounting places, in such a way
that both cushions may be removed when the short camisole is sent
to the laundry for washing and disinfection.
[0017] In connection with the above description, it may be stated
that it is a new arrangement of objects already known, aimed at
getting a better use of the function for which they are
intended.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES
[0018] In order to specifically state the set of advantages thus
summarily mentioned, to which the persons who are to wear the piece
of clothing referred to herein, as well as those experts in the art
may add many others, and in order to make easier the understanding
of the tailoring, constituent and functional characteristics of the
inventive textile short camisole, there follows a preferred
construction example. The example is illustrated in the drawings by
figures that are not to scale, the example being given only for
illustrative purposes, intended just to explain and illustrate the
basis on which the present invention is conceived. It will be
apparent to those skilled in the art and it is contemplated that
variations and/or changes in the embodiments illustrated and
described herein may be made without departure from the present
invention. Accordingly, it is intended that the accompanying
description is illustrative only, not limiting, and that the true
spirit and scope of the present invention will be determined by the
appended claims.
[0019] FIG. 1 is a perspective view that shows a short camisole
bearing a side opening that satisfies the intended purpose of the
present invention.
[0020] FIG. 2. illustrates a perspective view of a short camisole
bearing a front opening that satisfies the intended purpose of the
present invention.
[0021] FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the same short camisole as
the one described in FIG. 1, in this case having its front part
slightly raised so that its dorsal part inner face may be
observed.
[0022] FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the same short camisole as
the one described in FIG. 2, in this case having its front part
slightly open so that its dorsal part inner face may be
observed.
[0023] FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the same short camisole as
the one described in FIG. 4, in this case showing a constructive
detail shaped on the textile cover cases or envelopes sewed to the
body of the camisole at the mounting zone.
[0024] It should be clearly stated that in all figures, the numbers
and letters used for reference purposes correspond the same or
equivalent parts or elements making up the set, pursuant to the
example chosen to explain the inventive novel textile short
camisole.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EXAMPLE
[0025] As is shown in the figures described above, the textile
camisole referred to herein belongs to the type having one textile
light piece of clothing comprising a front part (1) and a dorsal
part (2), and at the neck upper border line, in its middle part, a
thicker part (3) that shapes a soft tender area, having certain
flexibility.
[0026] The shaping condition described above, is combined with the
presence of a second thicker part (4) that, in this case, is shaped
in the inner face of the dorsal part (2) of the short camisole.
[0027] When FIG. 3 is specifically observed, it may be noted that
both the upper soft part (3) and the lower soft part (4) are shaped
by means of the respective cushions (5) and (6) housed in the inner
part of a cover case (7) and (8).
[0028] It may be clearly concluded that it is the presence of said
cushions that confers the thicker and softer shaping features to
the above-mentioned neck and waist parts.
[0029] In both cases the housing cover cases (7) and (8) referred
to above stay bound to the body of the short camisole by means of
the respective seams (9) and (10), both of them shaping the
corresponding openings (11) and (12) provided to remove the cushion
when the item of clothing must be sent to the laundry, allowing in
this way for the item of clothing to be perfectly accepted for use
in the conventional washing and ironing machines located in health
institutions.
[0030] FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the case in which the housing cover
cases referred to above show the access openings (11) and (12)
mentioned above shaped so as to coincide with one of their shorter
sides.
[0031] FIG. 5 illustrates the case in which the referred to access
openings (11*) and (12*) are shaped in the central zone of the
front face of both cover cases (7*) and (8*).
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