Skin-to-skin care garment
AssigneeHudlo LLC
InventorsMatthew C. Halverstadt, Katie A. Halverstadt
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Abstract
A convertible garment for skin-to-skin care of an infant, the garment including a flexible panel having a panel width disposed between panel first and second ends which removably couple to one another to dispose the panel width about a torso of a wearer to define an interior space between a panel internal surface and a front torso portion of the wearer, whereby the interior space can be configured to receive an infant; a first support element coupled to the panel proximate a panel first side top portion; and a second support element coupled to the panel proximate a panel second side top portion; whereby the first and second support elements can be configured to couple to one another to support the panel about the torso of the wearer.
Claims21
A convertible garment for skin-to-skin care of an infant, said garment comprising:
- a flexible panel having a panel width disposed between panel first and second ends which removably couple to one another to dispose said panel width about a torso of a wearer to define an interior space between a panel internal surface and a front torso portion of said wearer, said interior space configured to receive an infant;
- a first support element coupled to said panel proximate a panel first side top portion;
- and
- a second support element coupled to said panel proximate a panel second side top portion;
- said first and second support elements configured to couple to one another to support said panel about said torso of said wearer;
- wherein in a garment first configuration, said first and second support elements couple to one another about a neck of said wearer;
- wherein in a garment second configuration, said first and second support elements couple to one another about a shoulder of said wearer.
A method of making a convertible garment for skin-to-skin care of an infant, said method comprising:
- providing a flexible panel having a panel width disposed between panel first and second ends which removably couple to one another to dispose said panel width about a torso of a wearer to define an interior space between a panel internal surface and a front torso portion of said wearer, said interior space configured to receive an infant;
- coupling a first support element to said panel proximate a panel first side top portion;
- and
- coupling a second support element to said panel proximate a panel second side top portion;
- said first and second support elements configured to couple to one another to support said panel about said torso of said wearer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.