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US 12,642,316 B2Granted
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AssigneeAllegiance Corporation
InventorsJoseph Angelo Palomo, Eric Dale Euteneuer, Lianhong Wang, Kyle Alexander Cushman, Rogelio Reyes, Armando Quinonez, Stephen James Cox
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Abstract
A garment, particularly a garment useful in a medical setting, comprising a gown that provides an acceptable barrier between a wearer and certain contaminants as well as easy doffing, the gown having a neck opening, two sleeves, a body portion including a front body portion and a back body portion, one or more panels, and/or one or more doffing features.
Claims18
A method for preparing a garment, the method comprising:
- (a) forming a front body portion of the garment by:
- providing a first component comprising a neck opening, wherein the first component comprises a slit extending from the neck opening to a first edge of the first component, and
- folding the first component over along a line bisecting the neck opening;
- and
- (b) forming a back body portion of the garment by:
- attaching a first panel to the first component via a first seal, and
- attaching a second panel to the first component via a second seal,
- wherein the first seal and the second seal are contiguous and are offset from the first edge of the first component by a first distance,
- wherein the first panel and the second panel are separated from the neck opening by a portion of the first component, and wherein the first panel and the second panel, together, form an entire width of the back body portion,
- wherein the first panel, the second panel, and the first component together form the back body portion, the back body portion configured to cover substantially all of a back torso of a wearer, and
- wherein the first seal and the second seal are provided using heat sealing, ultrasonic welding, an RF welding technique, an adhesive, or a combination thereof.
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A garment comprising:
- a front body portion, the front body portion comprising a first portion of a first component;
- a back body portion, the back body portion comprising a second portion of the first component, a first panel, and a second panel;
- a first sleeve, the first sleeve comprising a third portion of the first component;
- a second sleeve, the second sleeve comprising a fourth portion of the first component;
- a neck opening provided in the first component;
- and
- a slit extending from the neck opening to a first edge of the first component;
- wherein the first panel is attached to the first component via a first seal and the second panel is attached to the first component via a second seal,
- wherein the first seal and the second seal are contiguous and are offset from the first edge of the first component by a first distance,
- wherein the first panel and the second panel are separated from the neck opening by a portion of the first component, and wherein the first panel and the second panel, together, form an entire width of the back body portion,
- wherein the first panel, the second panel, and the second portion of the first component together form the back body portion, the back body portion configured to cover substantially all of a back torso of a wearer, and
- wherein the first seal and the second seal are provided via heat sealing, ultrasonic welding, an RF welding technique, an adhesive, or a combination thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.