Transforming a sleeved garment into a self-fastened wedge
OwnerPeter G. H. Hwanginventor
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Abstract
A garment stored, transported, and displayed as a soft wedge. A triangular prism is transformed from flat fabric pieces by flexible fasteners and a method of folding. Sleeves and other delicate decorations and components are protected from damage by folding into a self enclosed polyhedron defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces without pins, straps, ribbons, cans, cylinders, bags, boxes, or bands.
Claims15
A method for transforming a garment into a wrapped package comprises:
- placing a long sleeved garment on a flat surface with the collar opening toward you and the waist opening away from you and the sleeves spread to left and right;
- folding each sleeve diagonally from armpit to collar so that the edge of the sleeve is on top of the edge where the front panel is fastened to the back panel;
- noticing the width of the panels from armpit to armpit;
- grasping both sleeve and edge of lower panel and folding across the centerline to marry with other sleeve and edge of lower panel;
- folding the sleeve ends and the waist edge of the panel up at the point where the length to the armpit is approximately equal to the width of the panels from armpit to armpit;
- folding the corner at the centerline of the panels diagonally across to meet the edges;
- folding the resulting triangular portion up so the lowest point is at the armpit;
- folding diagonally again from armpit to centerline so that you have a large triangle with a pocket toward the collar;
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- tucking the collar and adjacent material into the pocket formed between the edges of the front and rear panel.
A method for transforming a garment having 4 annuluses, two sleeves, and a bilaterally symmetrical front panel coupled to bilaterally symmetrical rear panel into a substantially self-enclosed polyhedron that has two congruent parallel triangular bases, a triangular prism, for compact storage and transport, the method comprising:
- grasping and suspending said garment with a first maniple at a first armpit, wherein the armpit is a location on said garment where a sleeve is coupled to both the bilaterally symmetrical front and rear panels at a maximal distance from a collar annulus;
- grasping and elongating a first sleeve with a second maniple at a first wristpoint, wherein the wristpoint is a point on a sleeveseam;
- raising the first maniple and lowering the second maniple to further grasp a first sideseam at a point equidistant from the first armpit as the first wristpoint, wherein the sideseam is a locus of points at which the bilaterally symmetrical front and rear panels are coupled;
- raising the second maniple to be horizontally aligned with the first maniple which achieves a first diagonal fold between the first armpit and the collar annulus;
- grasping with the second maniple a second wristpoint on a sleeveseam of a second sleeve;
- grasping with the second maniple a second sideseam at a point equidistant from the second armpit as the second wristpoint, which achieves a second diagonal fold between the second armpit and the collar annulus;
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- grasping with the first maniple, the second armpit and horizontally elongating said garment between the two maniples which achieves a first orthogonal fold along an axis of bilateral symmetry on a centerline of both front and rear panels, wherein horizontally is substantially equidistant from a center of gravitational force.
A method for transformation of a sleeved garment into a portable wedge comprising:
- tucking a collar of a garment and adjacent fabric area into a triangular prism of folded sleeves and a front panel coupled to a rear panel at sideseams between an armpit and a hip.
A method for transformation of a sleeved garment by:
- folding at least one panel on a centerline across the axis of bilateral symmetry to enclose the sleeves within the left and right sides of the at least one panel, and
- diagonally folding a corner of fabric on a centerline to overlay an edge of the at least one panel whereby a quadrilateral is formed with two acute angles and two obtuse angles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.