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US 7,178,193 B2Granted
Cloth accessory
AssigneeAlpine Innovations LLC
InventorDarren Jones
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Abstract
A cloth accessory and methods for the use thereof are disclosed and described. In one aspect, the cloth accessory may include a cover member forming an enclosure with a cavity therein, and a cloth attached to the cover member. The cloth may have a first configuration wherein the cloth is retracted substantially into the cover member, and a second configuration wherein the cloth is extended substantially out of the cover member without becoming detached therefrom.
Claims19
A cloth accessory comprising:
- an invertible cover member of a soft and flexible material forming an enclosure with an opening therein;
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- a cloth directly coupled to the cover member at a point of attachment inside the cover member which is substantially opposite the opening, the cloth having a first configuration wherein the cloth is retracted substantially into the cover member for storage and a second configuration wherein the cloth is extended through the opening substantially out of the cover member for use while remaining directly coupled to the cover member, said second configuration having an inverted cover member position and a non-inverted cover member position, said opening having substantially the same size when said cover member is in the inverted and in the non-inverted positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.