Pants convertible into hammock
OwnerMichael Tadrosinventor
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Abstract
Pants convertible into a hammock comprise a pair of pant legs separable by unfastening front and back fasteners extending from the waist to crotch of the pant legs, each pant leg openable to a flat formation by unfastening an inseam fastener, the opened pant legs convertible into a hammock configuration by abutting and fastening together bottom edges of the pant legs, wherein the hammock pants may be suspended from an adjacent structure by inserting a pair of rigid rods into sleeves provided at the waist portion of the pant legs in the hammock configuration, and by unfolding a plurality of straps attached to the inside surfaces of the pant legs and extending the straps from the ends of the rigid rods to anchor points on the adjacent structure.
Claims24
Pants convertible into a hammock comprising:
- a pair of pant legs, each leg having a front side, a back side, a waist portion, a bottom edge, an inseam portion, an inseam fastener at said inseam portion, and a crotch portion,
- a front fastener for joining said front sides of said legs together between said waist portion and said crotch portion,
- a back fastener for joining said back sides of said legs together between said waist portion and said crotch portion,
- a bottom edge fastener, and
- means for suspending said pant legs in a hammock configuration, in which said front fastener is unfastened, said front sides of said legs are separated, said back fastener is unfastened, said back sides of said legs are separated, said inseam fastener of each said pant leg is unfastened, each said pant leg is open in a flat formation, and said bottom edges of said pant legs in said flat formation are detachably joined together by said bottom edge fastener.
Pants convertible into a hammock comprising:
- a pair of pant legs, each pant leg having a front side, a back side, a waist portion, a bottom edge, an inseam portion, an inseam fastener at said inseam portion, and a crotch portion,
- said pair of pant legs having a front fastener for joining said front sides of said legs together between said waist portion and said crotch portion, and a back fastener for joining said back sides of said legs together between said waist portion and said crotch portion,
- said pair of pant legs having a hammock configuration in which said front fastener is unfastened for separation of said front sides of said pant legs, said back fastener is unfastened for separation of said back sides of said pant legs, said inseam fasteners of said pant legs are unfastened for opening said pant legs, said pant legs are opened to a flat formation, and said bottom edges of said pant legs in said flat formation are detachably joined together,
- said pant legs in said hammock configuration having a width,
- a pair of rigid rods,
- said waist portions of said pant legs each having a hemmed band defining a sleeve, said sleeve having oppositely disposed open ends, said sleeve sized through said open ends for removable insertion therein of one of said pair of rigid rods for rigidifying said pant legs in said hammock configuration across said width.
A method for converting a pair of pants into a hammock, the method comprising:
- opening a front fastener extending from a waist portion to a crotch portion of a pair of joined pant legs,
- opening a back fastener extending from a waist portion to a crotch portion of a pair of joined pant legs,
- separating said pants legs,
- opening an inseam fastener at an inseam of each of said pant legs,
- opening each said pant leg to a flat formation,
- fastening together a bottom edge of each of said pant legs in said flat formation, and
- suspending said pant legs in said hammock configuration from an adjacent structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.