A41D2400/44

ASSISTIVE GARMENT
20210259327 · 2021-08-26 ·

An assist garments worn on or below the waist has finger loops mounted on a band to assist in dressing and undressing.

Garments With Integrated Cuff Frames
20210177077 · 2021-06-17 ·

Garments including a sleeve and a cuff frame. The sleeve including a cuff and defining a sleeve opening configured to receive an arm, a wrist, and a hand of a wearer. The cuff frame being secured to the sleeve proximate the cuff and configured to support the sleeve opening from collapsing under compressive forces. The cuff frame defines a wrist opening sized to enable the hand and the wrist of the wearer to pass through the wrist opening.

Breach Detection Glove with a High Contrast Between the Color on the Donning Side and the Grip Side of the Glove

Elastomeric articles, such as gloves, made from more than one layer, are provided. The gloves can include a first (grip side) layer in which a first colorant is compounded or integrated and a second (donning side) layer in which a second colorant is compounded or integrated. Alternatively, the gloves can include a translucent first layer and a second layer in which a colorant is compounded or integrated. Either arrangement can enable a breach of the first layer to be more easily detected, either due to the high level of contrast between the first layer and the second when a first colorant and a second colorant are utilized, or due to the translucence of the first layer as compared to the donning side layer, where the intensity of the second layer is increased upon a breach of the translucent first layer.

Clothing configurations with multiple reclosable access regions
11019861 · 2021-06-01 ·

An article of clothing is provided having a plurality of accesses for accessing, when the clothing is worn by a wearer, the area below the clothing without removing the clothing. In one example, the article of clothing is an upper-body garment with two arm accesses, an anterior torso access, and two side torso accesses. In another example, the article of clothing is a lower-body garment with two leg accesses, two knee accesses, and two hip accesses. In one example, each access is opened or closed by an incremental fastening device such as a one-way or two-way zipper.

Systems and methods for providing a body cover
11019854 · 2021-06-01 ·

This disclosure relates to apparel, clothing, and/or other body coverings. In particular, some implementations of the described systems and methods provide a body cover that is configured to cover a user's arms, legs, feet, and/or front side. In some cases, the covering's backside is configured to remain open such that the covering can easily be placed over a person while that person is in a car seat, a wheelchair, and/or any in any other suitable location. Other implementations are also described.

Adjustable suit
10980291 · 2021-04-20 · ·

An adjustable suit is provided and comprises fabric selected from the group consisting of single or multi-ply polymeric fabric and fabric from natural fibers. The adjustable suit includes a waist section having a front portion and a back portion and a waist section circumference, and a leg section including a pair of legs, each of the legs having a leg opening therein. Each of the leg openings has a leg opening circumference. The adjustable suit includes first, second, third and fourth adjustable members extending along the waist and leg sections. The first and second adjustable members are positioned on one side of a sagittal plane extending longitudinally along the waist and leg sections, and the third and fourth adjustable members are positioned on an opposite side of the sagittal plane of the suit and extend along the waist and leg sections. The second and third adjustable members comprise zippers, and the first, second, third, and fourth adjustable members are adapted to increase or decrease at least one of the waist and leg opening circumferences.

ALIGNED GLOVES

A glove-in-glove having aligned features is disclosed.

Glide-on coating for polymeric gloves

Polymeric gloves include a donning-facilitating coating. The donning-facilitating coating facilitates a hand of a user to glide into and out of the glove while either leaving a visible residue on the hand of the user, or not leaving a visible residue on the hand of the user, when the donning-facilitating coating is contacted by the hand of the user.

GLOVE
20210127766 · 2021-05-06 ·

An object of the present invention is to provide a glove which, while having a cuff, can be easily donned and removed using just one hand. The glove of the present invention includes: a glove main body including a main body portion; 5 finger-receiving portions each having a bottomed cylindrical shape; and a hem portion having a cylindrical shape; and a cuff which is joined to the hem portion of the glove main body, wherein the main body portion is formed in a pouch-like shape to cover a palm and a dorsal side of a wearer's hand, the 5 finger-receiving portions extend from the main body portion to cover each of a first finger to a fifth finger of the wearer, the hem portion extends in a direction opposite to the 5 finger-receiving portions, the cuff is arranged to protrude from the hem portion in a direction opposite to the 5 finger-receiving portions, a projection image of the cuff as viewed from a palm side thereof is a figure symmetrical with respect to a straight line and symmetrical with respect to an axis parallel to a direction of the protruding, the projection increasing in width as it becomes distant from the hem portion, and a flexural rigidity of the cuff is greater than a flexural rigidity of the hem portion of the glove main body, and a difference between the flexural rigidities is no less than 1.0 gf.cm.sup.2/cm.