Crib safety sheet/blanket
OwnerJo-Ann C. Landryinventor
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Abstract
A crib safety sheet/blanket with a fitted sheet portion having a front surface and a back surface two opposing ends defining pockets for snugly fitting the sheet to a mattress. A blanket is sewn along its midline to the center of the fitted sheet, defining two blanket halves. Mating strips of hook and loop fastening material are attached to the two halves of the blanket, so that an infant may be placed on the blanket with the two halves of the blanket wrapped around the infant and fastened to retain the infant in a supine position. A plurality of elastic straps may extend across the bottom of the fitted sheet and be removably secured to the side of the sheet with mating strips of hook and loop fastening material to retain the sheet on the mattress.
Claims16
A combination safety sheet/blanket for infants, comprising:
- a fitted sheet having a top surface, bottom surface, a first side, an opposing second side, and two opposing ends, the ends defining pockets adapted for snugly fitting about opposing ends of a mattress;
- a first blanket having a top surface, a bottom surface, a top edge a bottom edge a left side edge, a right side edge and a longitudinal mid-section, the mid-section of said first blanket being sewn to the top surface of said fitted sheet, defining first and second blanket halves;
- blanket fastening means disposed on the top surface of said first blanket half and on the bottom surface of said second blanket half for temporarily fastening said first and second blanket halves of said first blanket together when said first and second blanket halves are placed in overlapping position with respect to one another to define a top opening along said top edge and a bottom opening along said bottom edge;
- a plurality of straps, each of said straps having a first end and a second end, said first end being fixedly attached to the first side of said fitted sheet;
- strap fastening means for removably attaching the second end of each of said straps to the second side of said fitted sheet;
- whereby said fitted sheet may be secured to a mattress and said first and second halves of said blanket may be wrapped about an infant and secured by said blanket fastening means in order to retain the infant in a supine position while sleeping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.