FR2706748A1 - Floor mat, such as a beach and bath mat, or the like, which can be converted into a bag and vice versa - Google Patents

Abstract

The subject of the present invention is a floor mat, such as a beach and bath mat, intended to be laid out on the ground in order to protect the user from contact with the latter and enable him/her to dry off after bathing. The present invention is characterised essentially in that it comprises the combination of a pocket (1) equipped with closure and carrying means and of a mat or towel (3) which is folded up into the pocket constituting the bag and carrying means.

Description

1 The present invention relates to a floor mat such as a carpet

  beach and bath intended to be laid on the floor to protect the user and allow him to wipe after the bath, or simply to isolate himself from the floor. There are known more or less thick beach mats which fold in on themselves and are provided with carrying handles.

  These mats do not allow wiping.

  It is also known to use towels as a carpet; they must after use, being wet and sandy, be transported in a container for example

a bag.

  The present invention aims to achieve a carpet

  floor such as a beach and bath mat that allows

  suyage and which is provided with integrated means allowing it to be transformed into a transport bag for its use or for other objects. To this end, the carpet according to the invention consists of the combination of a pocket provided with closing and transport means and a carpet or towel which folds in the pocket constituting bag and means of transport.

  for the carpet or towel and other objects.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the opening of the pocket is opposite the towel or

  carpet and the latter slides into the pocket by return-

nement of it.

  Other advantages and characteristics of the invention

  1 tion will appear on reading the description which follows,

  of an embodiment of the invention given as

  example and illustrated by the attached drawings in the-

  which: FIG. 1 is a plan view of the device unfolded in the use position,

  - Figure 2 is a representation of the device in posi-

folding,

  - Figure 3 is a view of the device folded in a bag.

  As shown in the accompanying drawings, the carpet according to the invention consists of two parts: a pocket 1 provided with means 2 for closing and transporting and a carpet or towel 3 which folds back into the pocket constituting

bag and means of transport.

  The bag 1 is made up of two thicknesses of

  fabrics lA-lB of rectangular shape preferably sewn together

ble and leaving an opening 4.

  Advantageously, one of the thicknesses of fabrics, for example lA, consists of the carpet or towel 3 itself on

  which is sewn the thickness lB.

  The closure and transport means 2 is advantageously

  suitably consisting of a known type of slide, quite different

means that can be adapted.

  In this embodiment, the mat or towel 3 is opposite the opening 4, the towel threading into the pocket by inverting

  this as shown in Figure 2.

  Any other equivalent arrangement can be adapted in particular 1 that the opening 4 is at the junction with the

  towel section, the slide being at this level.

  It is however preferable that the carpet or towel 3 is positioned on the outside bottom of the pocket. After threading the towel or carpet as shown in Figure 3 by pulling on the slide 2, the bag is closed. It goes without saying that this bag can serve as a container for other objects than the towel such as the swimsuit

bath, sun products, etc ...

  On the pocket 1 or on the towel or carpet are provided one or more pockets 5 sewn to for example receive small objects such as a packet of cigarettes or

a lighter.

  Inside the pocket 1 can also be provided

  one or more pockets on one of the walls lA or lB.

  According to a preferred embodiment of the invention

  tion, inside the pocket 1 preferably against the wall IB is inserted an inflatable flexible envelope 6; this envelope constitutes the bottom of the bag and can be separated

  of the wall 1A by a thickness of fabrics.

  The pocket can be closed with velcro.

  The inflatable envelope can be fixed or removable or fixed

  by velcro allowing its removal or replacement.

  The nozzle 7 for inflating the envelope passes to the ex-

  inside of the pocket which, the envelope 0 being inflated,

titue headrest or pillow.

  1 The device according to the invention can be made of terry cloth in a carpet and towel application

of bath.

  It can also be made of any other type of fabric, for example waterproof, for application as a floor mat. The bag can be fitted with suspenders and the like allowing a

portage in backpack.

  It goes without saying that it has any other configuration than shown in Figure 3 which is given only as

example.

  The invention is particularly interesting in that it combines carpet and towel with their own means of

  transport as well as the means of transport of other objects.

Claims (6)

1 CLAIMS:   1. Floor mats such as beach and bath or other intended to be laid on the floor to protect the user from contact with it and allow him to wipe after the bath, characterized in that it is consisting of the combination of a pocket (1) with   closing and transport means (2) and a service   viette (3) which folds into the bag pocket and means of transport.   2. Floor mats such as beach and bath or other according to claim 1 characterized in that the opening (4) of the pocket is opposite the towel (3) and that the latter is threaded into the pocket by reversal of it.   3. Floor mats such as beach and bath or other according to claim 1 characterized in that the towel (3) is positioned on the outer bottom of the pocket.   4. Floor mats such as bath according to the resale   dication 1 characterized in that one of the walls of the pocket is constituted by a portion of the towel on which   is fixed the other wall of the pocket.   5. Floor mats such as beach and bath according to claim 1 characterized in that inside the pocket is arranged a flexible inflatable envelope (6) making pillow.   6. Floor mats such as beach and bath according to claim 1 characterized in that the opening of the   pocket is at the junction with the towel.