IL24054A - Infants' garments with diaper-attaching tabs - Google Patents

Description

24054/2 GARMENTS WITH DIAPER-ATTACHING REKEM LTD.

C. 23053 .

IThis invention relates generally to infant's garments ^ such as, undershirts, having tapes or tabs secured within the body portion of the garment for pinning or other attachment of diapers thereto.

In existing infant's garments provided with diaper-attaching tabs, the latter are formed of woven textile tape which is wettable or acts as a wick so that, when a diaper is pinned to the tabs, urine from the diaper can pass through the tabs to the body portion of the garment. Thus, even though an infant wears waterproof pants over the diaper, such pants do not prevent the wetting of the undershirt and other garments, particularly in the areas where the diaper-attaching tabs are secured to the shirt.

Accordingl£>:. it is an object of this invention to provide an infant's garment, such as, an undershirt or the like, with diaper-attaching tabs of a hydrophobic, non-wicking or liquid impervious material so that, when a diaper is pinned to such tabs, urine from the diaper cannot pass through the tabs to the undershirt or garment.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, each diaper attaching tab has a plurality of folded lius of a material that consists of a non-wicking woven or knitted textile fabric with a llquld-ixapervious coating at one side thereof and such plies are arranged so that the liquid-impervious coating preferably is at the inside and the textile fabric is exposed, thereby to afford a desirable fabric-like feel to the diaper-attaching tabs.

In existing infant's garments provided with diaper-attaching tabs, the latter are secured by various pat ners of stitching, to the front portion of the body of the garment at are sewed to the body being relatively highly stressed and also weakened by the stitching passing therethrough, tend to tear at a time when the remainder of the garment exhibits little or no evidence of wear.

Accordingly, it is another object of this invention to provide an Infant's garment with diaper-attaching tabs of any non-wioking or liquid-impervious material oecured to the body of the garment in a manner to avoid tearing of the latter under normal conditions of uue« In accordance with an aspect of this invention, an infant's garment having a body with iront and back portions joined together along side seams is provided with diaper-attaching tabs each having an elongated main part and an , upper part with one lateral edge offset relative to the main P^r , the offset lateral edge of the upper part of each a ' being sewed into the adjacent side seam of the garment body? With a tab having the foregoing configuration, the main part &£ each tab is spaced from the adjacent side seam of the garment body, and thus disposed for convenient pinning of a diaper thereto and for avoiding excessive bulk at the side seam, whereas the load applied to the tab is transmitted to the garment body at the side seam of the latter which is well able to accept such load without tearing of the knit fabric* In accordance with still another aspect of this invention, each of the diaper-attaching tabs is formed by cutting a substantially T-shaped blank from a preferably non-wicklng or liquid impervious, flexible material, folding the blank along its line of symmetry to provide the elongated main part and the upper part having one side edge laterally offset relative to the main part, and then diagonally folding ove the u er art toward the offset side ed e so that the projects laterally beyond the elongated main part for sewing into a side seam of the garment body.

The above, and other objects, features and advantages of this invention, will be apparent in the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment thereof which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, and wherein? Fig, 1 is a front elevational view, partly broken away, of an infant's garment provided with diaper-attaching tabs in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a blank from which a diaper-attaching tab is formed in accordance with this invention, Fig, 3 is a view of the blank after initial folding thereof, fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of the upper par of the blank following further folding thereof5 and Fig* 5 is an enlarged detail view illustrating the securing of each diaper-attaching tab to the garment, as in Fig. 1* Referring to the drawing in detail, and initially to Fig, 1 thereof, it will be seen that diaper-attaching tabs embodying this invention are there shown in an infant's garment 12 which may be of a knit fabric and includes a body having a back portion 14 and a front portion 16 joined together by sewed or stitched seams 18 extending along opposite sides of the body. The garment 12 may be of the sleeveless type or, as shown, it may be provided with sleeves 20 which, as disclosed in jay-United States betters Patent o. 3,078,467» issued Feb. 26, 1963, are formed integrally with the body and shoulders of the garment* accordance with this invention is preferably made from —χ a one-piece blank in the manner disclosed in detail in the above identified Letters Patent, it is to be understood that the diaper-attaching tabs 10 can be provided in any other form of infant's garment having a body that includes front and back portions joined together along side seams.

Referring in detail to Fig. 5» it will be seen that, in accordance with this invention, each diaper-attaching tab includes an elongated main part 22 and an upper part 24 having a side edge portion 26 which is laterally offset relative to the main part 22· She laterally offset side edge portion 26 of the upper part 24 of each tab 10 is sewed into the adjacent seam 18 joining the back and front portions 14 and 16 of the garment body whereby the main part 22 of each tab 10 is offset or spaced from the seam 18, fhus, the main part 22 of each tab 10 can lie forwardly with respect to the adjacent side seam 18 for convenient pinning or other attachment of a diaper to suoh main part 22 and further to avoid the presence of excessive and uncomfortable bulk at the region of he side seam 18» Bven though the main part 22 of each tab 10 is located forwardly with respect to the adjacent eide seam 18, the load applied to the tab by pinning of a diaper to its main part 22 is transmitted through the offset edge portion 26 of the upper part 24 of the tab to the body of the ^anaent at the adjacent side seam 18 where the garment is adequately reinforced by the presence of at least two thicknesses of the knit fabric so as to be capable of accepting the load without the danger of tearing of the fabric. .

Further, in accordance with this invention, each diaper* attaching tab 10 is formed of a non-*wieking material tha , ls» a material which is liquid impervious or immune to the capillary travel of liquid therethrough. The material for the tabs 10 may • -be sim ly a flexible plastic sheet material, but preferably ^ is a composite ma erial constituted by a woven or knit textile fabric having a coating of elxible plastic resin applied thereto, for example, as disclosed in detail in United States Letters Patent So. 2,739*919 issued Mar, 27» 1956. In such a composite material, the textile fabric may be knitted from nylon yarns, while the plastic coating is of vinyl resin or its polymers and copolymers.

By reason of the non-wicking characteris ics of the material from which the tabs 10 are formed in accordance with this invention, a diaper may be pinned or otherwise attached to such tabs without the possibility of the transmission of urine from the diaper through the tabs to the body garment.

Referring to Fig, 2 in detail, it will be seen tha each of the diaper attaohin tabs 10 is preferably formed from a generall T-shaped blank lOa ia cut from the non-wicking material, The blank 10a is shown to include a stem 22a and a cap 24a at the upper did thereof. The blank 10a is initially folded about its line of symmetry 28 so that one half of the T-shaped blank is superposed on the other half to provide two plies in the initially folded blank 10b shown on Fig. . Where the blank 10a is cut from a composite material made up of a textile fabric with a plastic coatin on one surface thereof, the folding of the blank about the line 28 is effected so that the plastic coating will be at the interior of the folded blank 10b and the textile fabric will form the outer surfaces thereof to give a textile-like feel to the tab. It will be seen that the initially folded blank 10b includes an elongated main part 22b and an upper par 24b having one of its side edge portions 26b offset laterally relative to the main part 22b. Following the secured together, for example, by sealing together the plastic coating at the confronting or inner surfaces of the textile fabric along the freeedges of the two piles, asindicated by the broken lines 30 on Fig. 3o Such sealing of the plastic can be effected by the suitable application of pressure and heat, either electronically or by the introduction of vibratory energy. The main part 22b of the initially folded blank 10b is also preferably formed with a series of spaced apart slits 52 through which diaper pins can be conveniently inserted, and, during the sealing of the free edges along the lines 30, as described above, the two plies of the initially folded blanks are also preferably sealed together around the slits 32, as indicated by the broken lines 34· Following th© sealing of the two plies of the initially folded blank, the upper part 24b of the latter is diagonally-folded about the line 36 on Fig. 3 in the direction toward the laterally offset side edge 26b so that the upper part 24 of the completed diaper-attaching tab 10 is substantially triangular, as shown on Fig. 4· Following the diagonal folding of the upper part 24, the laterally offset edge of the latter is sewed into the side seam 18 of the garment, asshown on Fig. 5» thereby to secure the upper part in its triangular form. It will be apparent that, while the main part 22 of the ab has two plies of the non-wicking material therein, the diagonally folded* triangular upper part? 24 of the ab has twioe as many plies, that is, four thicknesses of the non-wicking material* to ensure secure attachment of the lab to the garment at the side seam of the latter* It has further been xound that the diagonal folding of the upper part 24 of the tab prior to its being sewed into the • β — of the tab when the load of the diaper attached thereto is applied along a line, thut is, at the line of the slita 32, which is offset with respect to the location of the attachment of the tab in the side seam of the garment body.

Although an illustrative embodiment of this invention has been described in detail herein with reference to the accompanying drawing, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to that precise embodiment, and that various changes and modifications may be made therein by one skilled in the art without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention, exeept as defined in the appended claims. 24054/2 «. ft -

Claims (1)

1. CLAIMS 1 · An infant's garment comprising a body having front and back portions, sewed seams joining together said front and back portions along the opposite sides of said body, and a pair of diaper-attaching tabs of non-ficking material located within said body adjacent theopposite sides thereof, each of said tabs having an elongated main part and an upper part with one lateral edge offset relative to said main part, said upper part being diagonally folded over toward said offset lateral edge to double the thicknesses of said material in said upper part, and said offset lateral edge of the folded-over upper part of each tab being secured in the adjacent sewed seam so that the main part of the tab is spaced from said seam* 2· An infant°s garment as in claim 1, wherein each tab has two plies of said material in said main part and four plies in said folded-over upper part* 3e An infant's garment as in claim 2» wherein said material is a textile fabric having a liquid itapervious coating thereon, and said two pli^s of said material in said main part of each tab have said liquid impervious coatings thereof facing each other. 4· An infant's garment as in claim 1, wherein said material is a flexible plastic resin* for the Applicants D DRR.. AND PARUNERo IS/DIi