Filter underwear
AssigneeStitches Medical, Inc.
InventorsCollin White, Robert White
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Abstract
The embarrassment of passing gas in public is ubiquitous. One solution is to wear a filter underwear that is generally constructed with a single ply of underwear side panels that are separated by an activated carbon center panel. The activated carbon center panel is attached to an elastic waistband at the underwear back and where the activated carbon center panel traverses between two leg openings to the waistband at the underwear front. The center panel is constructed with a five-ply activated carbon fabric that is sandwiched between cotton fabric, which is sandwiched between bamboo fabric. The five-ply center panel is greater than 1 mm thick to provide filtering capabilities to sufficiently reduce the odor of flatulence to an acceptable level that is not readily detected by a person close by.
Claims20
Underpants comprising:
- a center panel separating a first and a second side panel,
- the center panel traversing a crotch region,
- the center panel extending towards a waistband at a waistband front and a waistband rear,
- the first side panel extending from the waistband to a first leg aperture and the second side panel extending from the waistband to a second leg aperture,
- the crotch region separating each of the leg apertures,
- the side panels comprising a fabric that consists of a single layer of bamboo fabric,
- the center panel consisting of activated carbon fabric bonded, via a bonding agent, to and sandwiched between a first layer of cotton fabric and a second layer of cotton fabric, the first layer of cotton fabric and the second layer of cotton fabric irremovably sandwiched between a first outer layer of the bamboo fabric and a second outer layer of the bamboo fabric.
A filter underwear comprising:
- an undergarment body defined by two undergarment sides, an undergarment front and an undergarment back, the undergarment body extending between waistband and two leg apertures, the undergarment body permeable to gas and vapor,
- a waist aperture defined by a waistband edge of the waistband;
- a center panel attached to and extending from the waistband at the under garment back and traversing between the two leg apertures to the waistband at the undergarment front;
- the center panel comprises an activated carbon fabric bonded between two sheets of cotton fabric that are sandwiched between and irremovably attached to bamboo fabric,
- the center panel is greater than 1 mm thick;
- the two undergarment sides comprising one-ply bamboo fabric.
A filter undergarment comprising:
- an undergarment body defined by two one-ply bamboo fabric undergarment sides, an undergarment front and an undergarment back, the undergarment body extending between a waistband and two leg apertures,
- a waist aperture defined by a waistband edge of the waistband;
- a center panel extending from the waistband at the under garment back and traversing between the two leg apertures to the undergarment front,
- the center panel comprising a five-ply filter fabric that includes an activated carbon fabric bonded between cotton fabric panels that are sandwiched between bamboo fabric panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.