ES1070441U - Article of clothing (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Garment, which corresponds specifically to what is called a top garment, such as a jacket, jacket, coat, shirt or similar, and is intended for use by disabled people with greater or lesser degree of disability, characterized because it comprises a series of zippers that allow both the anterior opening of the garment, as the opening of the sleeves and even the independence of these and various parts of the garment, to promote the subject's dress, depending on their degree of disability . (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Article of clothing.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a garment of dress, specifically a garment considered as superior and intended to facilitate the dress of people with various physical or psychological disabilities, unable to fend by themselves.

Within this disability, they can be people totally dependent, or semi-independent, is say that they cannot perform any function without the help of another person, or that certain functions can perform them in case themselves, but others need the help of a third person.

People with physical or psychological disabilities are dependent to perform certain activities such as dressing, if we add that they have to dress with clothes designed for non-dependent people, suffer difficulties psychological, physical that cause pain and nervous stress by not clothing adapted to dress your disability or handicap, and for this we carry out the invention of clothes for disabled, which facilitate and enable you to reduce its dependence, also eliminated physical problems and psychological that derive from not having clothes to dress adapted to your disability, as well as reducing the time of carry out this activity, in more than 60%.

Background of the invention

As is known, the number of people with Disability is very high. In Spain, according to the latest survey carried out by the INE in the year 2008 of Disability, Anatomy Personnel and dependency situations, the number of people with Disability is 3,847,900, of which 2,300,600 are women and 1,547,300 men. For ages from 6 years we have 3,787,400 people, 2,276,600 of them are women and 1,510,800 men.

Within people 65 years of age or older, who called seniors or senior citizens (AGE 2008) we have 7,332,267, of the total 30.38%, are disabled, that is 2,227,500 of them, 756700 are men, and 1,470,800 are women.

There are numerous types of disabilities, both physical as sensory, psychic and intellectual or mental disability, so that within each disability it can be of different degree, from those considered as null where sequels or signs do not imply for the subject who suffers them no impediment to perform activities of daily living, until the very serious disability, going through the mild, moderate and serious, there are also different degrees of dependence on People with disabilities.

In any case, depending on the type of disability, the degree of disability, etc., the subject may have major or minor difficulties when carrying out certain activities, among which we can specifically mention to dress

Description of the invention

The garment that is recommended is planned precisely to try to facilitate the dress (remove and put the clothes), so that the disabled can be worth by themselves or reduce the effort of the assistant and even reduce times when dressing.

More specifically, the pledge of the invention, which is intended as a top garment, presents the particularity to include zippers that can carry out the opening of the sleeves, as well as the opening of the garment itself, in order to facilitate the dress or undress of the garment itself.

In that sense in an embodiment preferably the garment will incorporate a zipper in correspondence with each of its sleeves, allowing total or partial opening sleeve according to needs, thereby favoring the dress in people with reduced mobility or permanent paralysis in the Superior limbs.

The zipper can also be hidden under the fabric, which favors the aesthetics of the garment.

Similarly, the sleeves may be linked to what is the body of the garment through zippers that facilitate or allow the total disassembly of those.

On the other hand, it is expected that in garments like a shirt, instead of the conventional button buttons, It will have buttons that will be arranged as decorative elements, it is say as only visible but not operational elements, incorporating closure means that may be materialized by "Velcro" type adhesive strips, which allows a person with mental disability, with reduced mobility in the fingers of the hands or with some amputation of the upper limbs, you can put on a shirt or other top garment with Independence and without help.

Depending on the design, the sleeves too they can carry openings by means of adhesive strips type "velcro" to facilitate the dress.

Other means of closure may constitute it magnetized brooches, based on which people with some disability in the upper limbs or with disabilities mentally they can fend for themselves, without help to dress, this system of magnetized brooches that can be used on garments that aesthetically carry medium or large buttons, such as jackets, coats, jackets, etc., with the special feature that the sleeves can be opened and closed by snaps magnetized, always with the aim of facilitating the dress.

Another feature of the garment is that it can be completely removable, in which case the garment is provided for people with a severe degree of disability, in such a way that in this case the assistant person can be wearing parts the subject, being the garment fully removable, allowing even dressing said subject without being incorporated, that is to say you can remain lying down, just a simple turn of your trunk to dress him

It is also planned that the garment can have a partial closure in correspondence with one or both shoulder pads, whose closure will materialize with adhesive strips type "velcro", this garment being planned and designed mainly for children, preferably constituting t-shirts and / or pajamas.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that then it will be done and in order to help a better understanding of the features of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization thereof, is accompanied as an integral part of that description, a set of drawings in where illustrative and not limiting, it has been represented the next:

Figure 1.- Shows a representation schematic and frontal of a garment made according to the object of the invention, pledge that is materialized in a jacket where you can see zippers that allow you to open the sleeves and open the garment frontally.

Figure 2.- Shows a previous view of a alternative of realization of the garment, including brooches magnetized as closing elements.

Figure 3.- Shows a garment similar to that of Figure 1, where you can see how this garment is removable based on zippers that allow the sleeves to become independent and even make certain parts of the garment independent.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, and in specifically related to figure 1, a garment can be seen (1) how can a jacket be, that is to say a top garment, which includes zippers (2) in correspondence with the sleeves for allow the opening of these and carry out a dress of the subject more comfortably, being able to these zips (2) occupy all the sleeve length or sleeves or a part of them. The garment It also includes a front zipper (3), so that based on this and the zippers (2) of the sleeves is favored dress of people with reduced mobility or permanent paralysis in upper limbs

Zippers may be hidden under the own fabric of the garment (1) and instead of those zippers, by For example, in garments such as shirts, the closure means may be materialized by "velcro" or similar strips, simulated with non-operational buttons that will be superimposed, that is only as decorative elements but not operational As just said.

You can also close the garment using other elements such as adhesive strips "velcro", or by means of magnetic clips (4), as it is left see in figure 2, provided in a garment (1 '), which in this case instead of being a jacket like the garment (1) of figure 1, it is a jacket, but in any case the closure elements in instead of zippers are in this case resolved by brooches magnetized (4) and / or by magnetized square brackets, which would be placed both inside and outside to fill your closing effect

Figure 3 shows another garment (1``), of similar configuration to the garment (1) of figure 1, with the particularity that in the latter case the garment (1 ''), in addition of the front zipper (3) for the previous closure of the garment, Zippers (5) that link corresponding sleeves to the garment body (1 ''), as well as a side zipper (6) that allows, together with the zippers (5), to disassemble different pieces or parts of the garment, in order to improve the dress of the person, still lying there. In this case of figure 3 the garment is intended primarily for people with disabilities severe, where they require an assistant who will wear them for parts by disassembly of the garment itself (1``).

Claims (4)

1. Garment, which specifically corresponding to what is called a top garment, such as a jacket, jacket, coat, shirt or similar, and being intended for use by disabled persons with a greater or lesser degree of disability, characterized in that it comprises a series of zippers that allow both the opening of the garment, and the opening of the sleeves and even the independence of these and various parts of the garment, to favor the dress of the subject, depending on their degree of disability . 2. Garment according to claim 1, characterized in that the closing or joining means of the different parts of the garment are constituted by adhesive strips, which remain hidden and are complemented by external and visible but inoperative buttons. 3. Garment according to claim 1, characterized in that the closing and joining means of the different parts of the garment are constituted by snaps and / or magnetized brackets. 4. Garment according to claim 1, characterized in that the closure means, both materialized by zippers, as well as by adhesive strips or snaps and / or magnetized brackets, are likely to extend along the entire length of the garment and / or part of the same, or affect a section of said parts of the garment.