Pump Pocket
OwnerAnn Patricia Lazar, Marie Patricia Bloxhaminventors
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Abstract
A dual access pocket for supporting and/or storing medical devices such as insulin pumps and portable defibrillation devices and methods of manufacturing a garment including same. The garment into which the dual access pocket is sewn includes one or more front panel or panels, each of which have an outside surface and an inside surface. The dual access pocket has one or two openings secured on the inside surface of the front panel of the garment, wherein one of said openings is located internal to said front panel of the garment and one of said openings is in communication with a slit through the front panel to provide external access to said dual access pocket. The dual access pocket is therefore accessible from the inside of the garment and the outside of the garment.
Claims1
A method of manufacturing a garment including a dual access pocket, said garment having a front garment panel, said front garment panel including an inside surface and an outside surface comprising the steps of:
- providing a pair of pocket panels;
- sewing said pair of pocket panels to each other to form a pocket with a plurality of openings;
- sewing said pocket to said inside surface of said front garment panel in areas other than said plurality of openings such that said plurality of openings remain intact;
- sewing a closure into inside of said plurality of openings of said pocket;
- and
- utting slit in said front garment panel in location of a first of said one or more openings to provide access to said pocket through said first of said one or more openings from said outside surface of said front garment panel;
- wherein said pocket is attached to said inner surface;
- wherein said pocket includes interior access through a second of said plurality of openings;
- and
- wherein, said pocket communicates with said slit to provide access to said pocket from an outside surface of said front garment panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.