Device and method for spinal cooling
OwnerNancy Burstein, Jeff Burgessinventors
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Abstract
A spine cooling device is configured to hold the evaporative cooling textile in contact with a wearer's skin, particularly in a location between the wearer's hips and extending toward the wearer's tailbone. The spine cooling device has a pocket to hold the evaporative cooling textile, which textile can be periodically re-wetted while the spine cooling device remains in place on the wearer. The spine cooling device facilitates direct contact between the evaporative cooling textile and the wearer's skin, and is worn beneath the wearer's clothes. However, the device includes a water resistant layer placed to prevent the evaporative cooling textile from wetting the wearer's clothes.
Claims17
A personal cooling device, comprising:
- a pouch comprising a first liner and a second liner that are attached to one another so as to form a pocket therebetween, an opening providing access to the pocket, the pocket configured to hold an evaporative cooling textile therewithin;
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- a securement apparatus configured to hold the pouch in place against a wearer's skin and beneath the wearer's clothing;
- wherein the first liner is configured so that evaporating water can be communicated therethrough;
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- wherein the second liner comprises a water resistant layer.
A method of personal cooling, comprising:
- wetting a multilayer evaporative cooling textile insert;
- arranging a pouch having a pocket so that an inner liner of the pouch is disposed adjacent a wearer's skin, the pocket defined between the inner liner and an outer liner;
- securing the pouch in place;
- placing the wetted multilayer evaporative cooling textile insert into the pocket so that the multilayer evaporative cooling textile insert contacts the inner liner of the pouch and conducts water from the evaporative cooling textile through the inner liner of the pouch and to the wearer's skin;
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- placing an article of clothing onto the wearer so that the article of clothing engages the outer liner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.