Protective garment-type cover for use with child users and carriages therefor

A protective cover for disposition over a carriage of the type having a seat section with a periphery and an underside for transporting a child and to protect the child user from inclement weather conditions, said protective cover comprising:

• a) a flexible and foldable material sheet having a partially enclosing continuous wall forming an upper section to surround a torso of a child user and a lower section and which is light in weight and easily foldable and unfoldable;
• b) an enlarged opened lower end portion in said lower section for disposition over a child user and for disposition over a portion of a carriage including the seat section for said child user, said enlarged portion of said lower section having a size sufficient to cover the peripheral wall and extend beneath the underside of said seat section;
• c) an opened neck region in said partially enclosing continuous wall to allow the head of the child user to project outwardly of the continuous wall when in use and with the continuous wall protecting the remaining portion of the child user from inclement weather when fully surrounding the child user and draped over a portion of the carriage;
• d) said material sheet also having both a size and shape such that it may be worn by child user as a jacket when not used with a carriage;
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• e) a pocket formed integrally with said continuous wall and which is relatively unobservable when the cover is in use, said pocket being located on said continuous wall in a position where the remaining portion of the continuous wall and the entire protective cover beyond said pocket can be folded and stuffed into said pocket so that the area becomes a small neatly folded compact package which is easily stored and transportable.

A combination of a carriage for a child user having a seat section and a protective garment-type cover for disposition over a child user and for disposition over the carriage and seat section for such child user, said combination carriage and protective garment-type cover comprising:

• a) a carriage structure comprised of a main frame;
• b) a seat section on said main frame and having a periphery and an underside and being sized and located to seat a small child therein;
• c) a garment-type cover comprised of a flexible and foldable material sheet having a partially enclosing continuous wall forming an upper section to surround a torso of a child user and a lower section;
• d) an enlarged opened lower end in said lower section and at a lower end of said continuous wall for disposition over a child user and for disposition over a portion of the carriage and the seat section for said child user;
• e) an opened neck region in said partially enclosing continuous wall of said upper section to allow the head of the child user to project outwardly of the continuous wall when in use and with the continuous wall protecting the remaining portion of the child user from inclement weather when fully surrounding the child user and draped over a portion of the carriage;
• f) said lower section having an enlarged portion forming part of said partially enclosing continuous wall and which extends around and envelopingly surrounds the seat section of the carriage, said enlarged portion of said lower section having a size sufficient to cover the peripheral wall and extend beneath the underside of said seat section wherein fully isolating the seat section from rain and completely encloses the child and the seat so that only the arms and head of the child may be exposed in inclement weather;
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• g) the flexible and foldable material sheet being light in weight and capable of being folded into a small compact unit for storage and transportation and capable of being easily and rapidly opened for disposition over a child user and over a carriage therefor.