Uncontaminated garment packaging
AssigneeVeltek Associates, Inc.
InventorsArthur L. Vellutato, JR., Steven S. TROMBETTA
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Abstract
A packaged garment includes a garment and a sealed bag. The garment has a torso portion, a sleeve portion connected to the torso portion, and a leg portion connected to the torso portion. The garment has an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The sealed bag contains the garment with the sleeve portion folded onto the torso portion, a portion of the sleeve portion folded at least once underneath the sleeve portion between the sleeve portion and the torso portion, and the leg portion folded onto the torso portion. The garment is manipulated so that the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward and the torso portion forms an inner space containing the sleeve portion and the leg portion.
Claims24
A packaged garment, comprising:
- a garment having a torso portion, a sleeve portion coupled to the torso portion, and a leg portion coupled to the torso portion, the garment having an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface;
- and
- a sealed bag containing the garment with the sleeve portion folded onto the torso portion, a portion of the sleeve portion folded at least once underneath the sleeve portion between the sleeve portion and the torso portion, the leg portion folded onto the torso portion, and the folded garment manipulated so that the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward and the torso portion forms an inner space containing the sleeve portion and the leg portion.
A method of manufacturing a packaged garment having an outer surface, an inner surface opposite the outer surface, a torso portion, two sleeve portions coupled to the torso portion at respective arm accesses, and two leg portions coupled to the torso portion at respective leg accesses, the method of manufacturing comprising the steps of:
- folding the two sleeve portions onto the torso portion;
- folding a portion of each of the two sleeve portions at least once underneath the sleeve portion between the sleeve portion and the torso portion;
- folding the two leg portions onto the torso portion;
- and
- manipulating the folded garment so that the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward with the two sleeve portions and the two leg portions within.
A method of manufacturing a packaged uncontaminated garment having an outer surface, an inner surface opposite the outer surface, a torso portion with an opening, sleeve portions coupled to the torso portion at respective arm accesses, and leg portions coupled to the torso portion at respective leg accesses, the method of manufacturing comprising the steps of:
- folding the sleeve portions onto the torso portion;
- folding a portion of the sleeve portion at least once underneath the sleeve portion between the sleeve portion and the torso portion;
- folding the leg portions onto the torso portion over the sleeve portions;
- manipulating the opening of the torso portion over the folded sleeve portions and leg portions so that the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward with the outer surface of the sleeve portions and the leg portions facing outward within the torso portion;
- fully extending the leg portions within the torso portion;
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- arranging arm accesses and leg accesses to lie substantially at an outer peripheral edge of the folded garment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.