Uncontaminated garment
AssigneeVeltek Associates, Inc.
InventorStephen 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 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.
Claims36
A packaged garment, comprising:
- a garment having
- a torso portion with an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface,
- sleeve portions coupled to the torso portion with accesses for receiving a user's arms, and
- leg portions coupled to the torso with accesses for receiving the user's legs;
- and a sealed bag containing the garment folded so that
- the sleeve portions and the leg portions are disposed over the torso portion,
- the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward and the outer surface forms an inner space containing the sleeve portions and the leg portions, and
- the accesses of the sleeve portions and the accesses of the leg portions are accessible and unobstructed at peripheral edges of the inner space.
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 the two leg portions onto the torso portion;
- manipulating the folded garment so that
- the inner surface of the torso portion faces outward and the outer surface forms an inner space with the two sleeve portions and the two leg portions disposed therein, and
- the accesses of the two sleeve portions and the accesses of the two leg portions are accessible and unobstructed at peripheral edges of the inner space;
- and
- sealing the folded garment in a bag.
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 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 and the outer surface forms an inner space with the sleeve portions and the leg portions disposed therein and the outer surface of the sleeve portions and the leg portions face outward within the inner space;
- fully extending the sleeve portions and the leg portions within the inner space;
- arranging arm accesses and leg accesses to lie substantially at an outer peripheral edge of the inner space so the arm accesses and leg accesses are accessible and unobstructed at the outer peripheral edge of the inner space;
- and
- sealing the folded garment in a bag.
A packaged garment, consisting of:
- a clean room coverall garment having
- a torso portion with an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface,
- sleeve portions coupled to the torso portion with accesses for receiving a user's arms, and
- leg portions coupled to the torso with accesses for receiving the user's legs;
- and
- a sealed bag containing a folded garment, the folded garment being the clean room coverall garment with the sleeve portions and the leg portions folded over the torso portion and at least part of the torso portion folded around the sleeve portions and the leg portions so that the inner surface of the folded portion of the torso portion faces outward, thereby forming an inner space within the torso portion that encloses the sleeve portions and the leg portions with the accesses of the sleeve portions and the accesses of the leg portions accessible and unobstructed at peripheral edges of the inner space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.