US20200323368A1

US20200323368A1 - Systems and methods for combination duvet cover and comforter

Info

Publication number: US20200323368A1
Application number: US16/380,084
Authority: US
Inventors: Gwen Shook
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2019-04-10
Filing date: 2019-04-10
Publication date: 2020-10-15

Abstract

A system and method for joining a cover with a comforter are described where a cover that may include one or more pieces of fabric with two opposing interior surfaces. The two opposing interior surfaces of the cover may have a top portion and a bottom portion. One of the opposing interior surfaces, at the top and the bottom, may include a securing means for securing the interior portion of the cover to a comforter. Once the securing means are engaged, the cover is removably attached to the comforter. The cover and comforter are reversed by turning the cover-comforter inside-out such that the comforter is inside the cover. The cover is then closed using a closing means.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present disclosure generally relates to bedding.
More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an improved method and system for securing a cover to a comforter.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This section provides background information that is not necessarily considered to be prior art.
Comforters, quilts, and the like (“comforters”) have long been used to keep a user warm, especially during sleep. Generally, these comforters are large and rectangular in shape and correspond to standard bed sizes (e.g., twin, queen, king, etc.). Modem consumers are increasingly interested in quickly and easily changing the appearance and design of a room. A comforter cover or duvet cover (generally, “cover”) may be placed over the comforter to change the decorative appearance of the bed. The cover provides protection and allows for prolonged use of the comforter. The cover may be removed from the comforter for laundering. Once removed, the cover is less bulky than a comforter because of the lack of filling and is more easily laundered.
In order to maintain the ability for installation and removal, the cover should not be permanently fastened to the comforter. The lack of attachment, however, may cause the comforter to bunch or ball inside of the cover while in use. Further, when installing the comforter inside of the cover, it may be difficult to find and match the corners and retain them in place.
One prior art solution is the “Du-Zipp” (sold online at https://www.etsy.com/shop/DuZipp) which is described as A zipper is sewn on the interior of the duvet and duvet cover on the seams. This method involves attaching a zipper to the interior side seam of a duvet cover but not within the layers of the duvet. As a result, all parts of the zipper (the zipper tape, the zipper teeth and the zipper slider) are all visible to the eye, while in some circumstances a secondary strip of material is added over the exposed zipper in an attempt to hide the zipper, increasing cost and decreasing aesthetic appeal.
Thus, a need exists for improved techniques to secure connections between covers and comforters.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This section provides a general summary of the disclosure and is not a comprehensive disclosure of its full scope or all of its features.
The present invention includes improved system and method for securing a cover with a comforter. The cover comprising one or more pieces of fabric has two opposing interior surfaces. The two opposing interior surfaces may have a top portion and a bottom portion. To secure a comforter to the cover, one side of the opposing interior surfaces may include a securing means along the cover's bottom horizontal axis that is attached to and along the bottom of the interior portion of the cover. Such attachment means may include a snap, button, hook-and-loop, or the like.
The improved system may also include a comforter. The comforter may be removably attached to the interior portion of the cover corresponding in location to a securing means on the comforter. For example, if the attachment means is a snap, then the cover may have the male portion of the snap and the comforter may have the female portion of the snap (or vice-versa). In the case of a button the comforter may have a button attached and the cover may have a hole to accept the button, where the button and the hole are in substantially corresponding locations. The aforementioned secures the bottom of the cover to the comforter.
Additionally, the top portion of the cover may have an attachment means, such as a snap or button, fixably attached to the cover that corresponds in position to an attachment means on the comforter. For example, if the attachment means is a snap, then the cover may have the male portion of the snap and the comforter may have the female portion of the snap (or vice-versa). In the case of a button, the comforter may have a button attached to the comforter itself and the cover and may have a hole to accept the button, where the attachment means on the cover and the comforter are in substantially corresponding locations to each other.
The aforementioned secures both the top and bottom portions of the cover to the comforter. At this stage, one side of the comforter and one side of the interior of the comforter is exposed. Next, the attached cover and comforter should be reversed by turning the cover with attached comforter inside-out. This allows the outside of the cover to be exposed with the comforter on the inside.
The cover may have a closing means, such as snaps, buttons and holes, hook and loop (Velcrom™), or the like to close the top portion of the cover. For example, the interior top portion of the cover may have a plurality of snaps to close the top of the cover. In another example, one side of the interior portion of the cover may have a plurality buttons with a corresponding number of holes to close the top portion of the cover. In yet another example, the top portion of the cover may have a hook and loop attachment means where one side of the interior portion of the cover has a hook attachment means fixably attached to the cover, and the other side of the interior portion of the comforter may include a hook-and-loop attachment means attached to the cover. When the hook-and-loop portions of the interior portions of the cover meet, the cover is closed.
Further areas of applicability will become apparent from the description provided herein. The description and specific examples in this summary are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The drawings described herein are for illustrative purposes only of selected embodiments and not all possible implementations and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a covering arrangement that for use on a bed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a cover and comforter in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of cover and comforter in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 shows a preferred method of practicing the present invention in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 5 is a detailed perspective view of the cover and comforter in its completed form in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure; and

Corresponding reference numerals indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Before the present subject matter is described in detail, it is to be understood that this disclosure is not limited to the particular embodiments described, as such may vary. It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting, since the scope of the present disclosure will be limited only by the appended claims.
Provided herein are embodiments of devices, systems, and methods for improved securing of cover and comforters.
Referring now to FIGS. 1-3, the present invention includes system cover and comforter 100. System Cover and comforter 100 features a cover 130 comprising four side edges, where at least three of the side edges maybe one piece of fabric or may be secured together via an attachment means (not shown), hereinafter “sealed edges”. The attachment means may include stitching, gluing, or any other suitable way to attach pieces of fabric together. In some embodiments, the sealed edges comprise a first side edge 160, a second side edge 180, and a third side edge 170. In some embodiments, the cover is adapted to be folded over making a closing side edge 190. In some embodiments, the opposing inside surfaces (a front inside surface and a back inside surface respectively). Cover 130 may further include securing means 140. securing means 140 may include snaps, holes to accept a button, buttons, hook-and-loop fastener, or any other acceptable means to fasten a cover to a comforter.
Again referring now to FIGS. 1-3, system 100 may also include comforter 110. Comforter 110 may be of any standard size or shape, for example, twin, twin extra-long, double, queen, king, California king, etc. Comforter 110 may include securing means 120. Securing means 120 may include snaps, holes to accept a button, button, hook-and-loop fastener, or any other acceptable means to fasten the cover to a comforter. Comforter 110 may further include top portion 194 and bottom portion 195.
Referring now to FIG. 2, cover 130 and comforter 110 may be removably attached to each other using securing means 120 and 140. When securing means 120 and 140 are employed the cover and the comforter are removably attached to each other. At this stage, the comforter is outside of the cover and the cover comforter combination is inside-out. FIG. 2, also shows cover closing means 150 and 155. Once comforter 100 is property inside cover 130, as shown in FIG. 3, closing means may be used to close cover 130. Closing means 150 and 155 may include snaps, holes to accept a button, buttons, hook-and-loop fastener, or any other acceptable means to close cover 130.
Referring now to FIG. 3, cover 130 and comforter 110 may be reversed by turning the cover comforter combination inside-out such that the comforter in inside the cover through cover mouth 310, thereby completing the installation of the cover to the comforter.
Referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 4 shows method 400 for securing a cover to a comforter. Step 410 includes reversing cover 130 such that the inside of the cover is facing outwards. Step 420 includes aligning comforter and securing means 120 with cover securing means 140. Step 430 includes securing comforter and cover attachment means to each other. Step 440 includes reversing secured comforter/cover combination inside-out, such that the comforter is inside the cover. Step 450 includes securing the cover using cover securing means.
FIG. 5 show the comforter inside the cover as a completed system.
Although there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made thereto which do not exceed the scope of the appended claims. Therefore, the scope of the invention is only to be limited by the following claims.
The reference numbers recited in the in this application are solely for ease of examination of this patent application, and are exemplary, and are not intended in any way to limit the scope of the claims to the particular features having the corresponding reference numbers in the drawings.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. An improved system for joining a cover with a comforter, the improvement comprising:

a cover comprising having two opposing interior surfaces, wherein the two opposing interior surfaces including a front and a back and including an open top and a closed bottom;

the cover includes two rows, a top row and a bottom row, of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover;

the cover includes one row of a plurality of securing means along the back inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover;

the cover includes a row of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the closed bottom of the cover; and

a comforter with a top and bottom portion, wherein the comforter includes a row of a plurality of securing means along the horizontal axis of the top and bottom portions of the comforter.

2. The improved system of claim 1, wherein the cover with two rows of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover are vertically separated from each other, and wherein the two rows of the plurality of securing means are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the front top horizontal axis of the front open cover.

3. The improved system of claim 1, wherein the cover with one row of a plurality of securing means along the back inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover is in vertical alignment with the top row of securing means on the front inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover.

4. The improved system of claim 1, the row of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the closed bottom are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the bottom horizontal axis of the cover.

5. The improved system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of securing means are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the top and bottom horizontal axis of the comforter.

6. The improved system of claim 5, wherein the securing means of the bottom row of the front inside open top and the front inside closed bottom row of the cover and the comforter securing means are in substantial alignment to couple with each other.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of attachment means are snaps, wherein the snaps are male and female to engage each other.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of attachment means are buttons and holes, wherein the button engages the hole.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of attachment means is a hook-and-loop fastener.

10. An improved system of joining a cover with a comforter, comprising:

a cover comprising a plurality pieces of fabric, wherein the cover includes a top and bottom portion, and wherein the cover has two opposing interior surfaces, wherein the two opposing interior surfaces including a front and a back and including an closed top and a open bottom;

an attachment means to attach the plurality pieces of fabric together;

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of attachment means are one of stitching and gluing the plurality of fabrics together.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of securing means are snaps, wherein the snaps are male and female to engage each other.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of securing means are buttons and holes, wherein the plurality of buttons engages the holes.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of securing means is a hook-and-loop fastener.

15. A method of joining a cover with a comforter, comprising:

providing a cover comprising having two opposing interior surfaces, wherein the two opposing interior surfaces including a front and a back and including an open top and a closed bottom; wherein the cover includes a two rows, a top row and a bottom row, of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover; and wherein the two rows are vertically separated from each other, and wherein the two rows of the plurality of securing means are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the front top horizontal axis of the front open cover; and wherein the cover includes one row of a plurality of securing means along the back inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover, and wherein the one row is in vertical alignment with the top row of securing means on the front inside horizontal axis of the front open top of the cover; and wherein the cover includes a row of a plurality of securing means along the front inside horizontal axis of the closed bottom of the cover, wherein the plurality of securing means are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the bottom horizontal axis of the cover; and

providing a comforter with a top and bottom portion, wherein the comforter includes a row of a plurality of securing means along the horizontal axis of the top and bottom portions of the comforter, wherein the plurality of securing means are placed substantially equidistant from one another along the top and bottom horizontal axis of the comforter, and wherein the securing means of the bottom row of the front inside open top and the front inside closed bottom row of the cover and the comforter securing means are in substantial alignment to couple with each other;

securing the cover to the comforter using the cover and comforter securing means to each other;

reversing the secured cover-comforter combination inside out so that the comforter is inside the cover; and

securing the cover using the cover closing means.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of securing means are snaps, wherein the snaps are male and female to engage each other.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of securing means are buttons and holes, wherein the plurality of buttons engages the holes.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of securing means is a hook-and-loop fastener.