US20220378128A1

US20220378128A1 - Vest for dealing with emergencies from the moment they occur

Info

Publication number: US20220378128A1
Application number: US17/635,508
Authority: US
Inventors: Gaelia Amezcua Esparza
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2019-08-26
Filing date: 2020-02-05
Publication date: 2022-12-01
Also published as: WO2021040508A1

Abstract

The vest gives autonomy to girls, teenagers and adults to have the indispensable to face earthquakes and emergencies from the first moment. It has eyelets for a whistle that can be used without hands and communicate signals of life; it has a pocket for a flexible bottle of at least 500 ml of water with straw, which is exposed with an eyelet to be used without hands; It has a transparent pocket to hold an identification with personal information for medical emergencies, which can be hidden just by flipping the card over; it has seven other invisible or internal pockets with zippers, designed with sufficient room to bring with it a multifunctional device that has a radio, flashlight, light and sound signals, mobile phone charger and power generator with dynamo; prescription medication, glasses replacement, house and car keys, energy bar, dust mask, thermal blanket, mobile phone, USB memory stick, first aid kit, pocket knife, money, pockets with room for other items, among others. The size is adjusted with straps and self-containment and grasped with its handle on the hood, which facilitates its transport.

Description

According to the Technical State of the Art Search Report with Exit Sheet IT/S/2019/000651; Application Folio IT/B/2019/000590 and File Folio IT/E/2019/001626, there is no vest designed to be self-contained, self-contained, closed and seized with its hood and that as a whole integrates, at least, a pair of eyelets to attach an emergency whistle, a pocket to carry a flexible water bottle with an eyelet to expose for usage a no-spill straw, a transparent exterior pocket to hold a plastic identification card and invisible or internal pockets to contain the essential survival items for children, teenagers and adults who face earthquakes or emergencies of any kind since the first moment that occur.
At present, when an earthquake and/or an emergency occurs, people—in general—do not have something to help them deal with it from the first moment; in their case, they probably only carry a mobile phone and other personal items, which neither do most of the children have.
The disaster prevention backpack recommended by government and institutions, as well as the backpacks equipped to survive 72 hours offered by the market, have the common assumption that the person is close to them when the earthquake and/or emergency occurs, whether at home or in the car. Both types of backpacks or kits cannot be brought with you or taken to work and school easily due to their weight and size.
The vest we are presenting gives people autonomy to face earthquakes and emergencies. Autonomy consists in having immediately at hand everything that is essential to cope with an earthquake and/or an emergency from the first moment it occurs and until a safer place can be reached.
The field of technique to which the vest belongs corresponds to survival and emergency products and clothing.

DESCRIPTION

The vest provides autonomy to child, teenagers and adults to face earthquakes and emergencies. Autonomy consists in carrying with you and having at hand immediately what is essential to cope with earthquakes and emergencies from the first moment they occur and until the person can reach a safer place. The vest is not intended for people who are in charge of emergencies attention, rescue, security, among others, at the site where the earthquake and/or emergency occurs. It is so that people in general are part of the solution and not of the problem, by carrying each one with the indispensable to face earthquakes and emergencies.
The vest is a product and survival clothing. Due to its self-containing design with velcro straps, its weight—being careful not to load it with additional excessive weight—, its size and the handle to load/grab it, the vest is easy to carry with you in your work or school bag, briefcase or backpack; as well as having it stored in a drawer or locker of the house, office or school; or have it on the back of the office chair or school chair/desk, as well as having it hung on a coat rack in the house, office or school ready for its use in case of an emergency.
The vest is made of waterproof fabric, discreet in color and different from official emergency attention vests. It adjusts to the size of each person by means of straps with plastic side release buckles (FIG. 3 ; A) in front of the vest and on its flanks, and has a hood (FIG. 1 ; C) that in addition to offer protection from rain, works as the self-containment piece (FIGS. 7 to 11 ; T to X), closing (FIG. 11 ; I, K and Y) and grabbing the vest (FIG. 12 ; J), as will be described later.
In short, the vest has 8 (eigth) pockets, with the following general characteristics:

- First: invisible pocket slightly diagonally (FIG. 4 ; E) open at the top (FIG. 4 , Ea) on the upper right of the front of the vest;
- Second: transparent pocket (FIG. 4 ; G) with velcro at the top (FIG. 4 ; H) in the upper left of front of the vest;
- Third to Seventh: 5 invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; L to P) with zippers at the top (FIG. 4 ; Bb to Bf) on lower middle of both sides of front of the vest; and
- Eighth: internal pocket (FIG. 5 ; Q) with zipper at the right side (FIG. 5 ; Ba) on the upper right of the front of the vest.

The vest gives autonomy to the person who wears it to give signs of life, facilitate its location and/or make emergency signs because it has a pair of eyelets (FIG. 1 ; D) in the upper left, designed and created to carry an emergency whistle with a clip or a similar emergency whistle to serve that purpose, seized from these and also from the whistle's own cord to the same eyelets, as a redundant measure of grip to avoid losing it. Thus, the whistle is seized by itself and by its cord to the eyelets, leaving the whistle exposed in the vest for easy use. Autonomy also occurs if there is no mobility in the hands, because only with the movement of the neck, the whistle is reached to give signs of life or emergency.
The vest gives autonomy to the person who wears it to hydrate, because in the upper right part of the front of the vest it has a first invisible pocket slightly diagonally (FIG. 4 ; E) open at the top (FIG. 4 , Ea), designed to contain a flexible bottle of at least 500 ml of water, antibacterial, BPA and PVC free, with an anti-spill straw, which extends from the vest by means of an eyelet (FIG. 4 ; F) to be closer to the mouth. Autonomy also occurs if there is no mobility in the hands, because only with the movement of the neck, the straw is reached to hydrate.
The vest gives identification autonomy to the person who wears it, because under the eyelets of the whistle in the upper left of the front of the vest, it has a second transparent pocket (FIG. 4 ; G) closed with velcro at the top (FIG. 4 ; H) in which it is introduced a plastic Id card that has the following information (FIG. 6 ; R): Name, Blood type, SSN or SIN (social security number or social identity number), Emergency Contact name and phone number, Medical condition or prescription medication. The legend: “Please use indelible or permanent marker”. Through this plastic identification card, the person also achieves autonomy of identification, because even when the person is unconscious, it will be enough to read the card to identify her. If the person does not want to identify herself, at first sight, she only has to turn the card over showing only the trademark logo, leaving her personal data hidden (FIG. 6 ; S)
The vest gives autonomy to the people who wear it, because it has five invisible pockets with zippers on front of the vest, designed in shape and size to have at least:

- On the third invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; L), with zippers at the top (FIGS. 3 and 4 ; Bb), a compact and transportable multifunctional radio device to be informed, flashlight and light flash signals, emergency siren, mobile phone charger and dynamo crank to feed energy to the device; prescription drugs, the replacement of glasses, replacement of house and car keys, among others;
- On the fourth invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; M), with zippers at the top (FIGS. 3 and 4 ; Bc), room for the personal mobile phone, a mini first aid kit and a USB (removable memory) containing the official and family relevant documents scanned to check the official identity and ownership of movable and immovable property;
- On the fifth invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; N), with zippers at the top (FIGS. 3 and 4 ; Bd), an energy bar of at least 400 kcal, a dust mask, a thermal rescue blanket, among others;
- On the sixth invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; O), with zippers at the top (FIGS. 3 and 4 ; Be), a rescue knife with glass breakers and safety belts cutter, among others; and
- On the seventh invisible pocket (FIG. 4 ; P), with zippers at the top (FIGS. 3 and 4 ; Bf), it is designed so that its contents are personalized by each owner of the vest.

In the case of child vests, the sixth (FIG. 4 ; O) and seventh (FIG. 4 ; P) invisible pockets, which contain the rescue knife, and what the owner of the vest personalizes, are not included in its design.
The vest gives autonomy to the person who wears it to keep an amount of cash that it deems pertinent to keep inside the vest in the eighth internal pocket (FIG. 5 ; Q), with zippers with zipper at the right side (FIGS. 3 and 5 ; Ba) on the upper right of the front of the vest, that is specially designed for that purpose.
The vest self-containment procedure consists of 6 steps:

- 1. Step 1: once it is equipped and its pockets are closed, the vest is extended on a flat surface with the front facing up and the right side is folded in the direction towards the left side, as the elements of the equipment allow (FIG. 7 ; T)
- 2. Step 2: bend the left side in the direction of the right side. The left side is above the right side, as the elements of the equipment allow (FIG. 8 ; U)
- 3. Step 3: fold the bottom of the vest up to the zippers of the inferior pockets (FIG. 9 ; V)
- 4. Step 4: fold the top of the vest down (FIG. 10 ; W)
- 5. Step 5: with the hood (FIG. 11 ; C) the body of the folded vest (FIG. 11 ; X) is wrapped.
- 6. Step 6: on the back side of the vest (FIG. 2 ), there are velcro straps, hook and loop sides (FIG. 11 , X). These need to get opened or unattached in order to get attached to the loop velcro strap (FIG. 11 ; I) on the hood of the vest once the bundle is made. To close the vest and have the bundle made (FIG. 11 ; Y), the hook side of the velcro at the back (FIG. 11 ; K), is aligned and attached to the loop side of the velcro (FIG. 11 ; I) on the hood (FIG. 11 ; C), so that it is compacted and conveniently closed.

Once the vest is equipped and self-contained into the bundle, the vest can be seized and/or carried with the handle (FIG. 12 ; J) it has on the hood (FIG. 12 ; C)

Claims

What is claimed is:

1-4. (canceled)

5. The emergency-response vest thus characterized because it has a shape that adjusts to every wearer's size, that expands and contracts the area between the front and the back of the vest using straps with side-mounted male-female fasteners; with male fasteners at the front sides of the vest and with each respective strap sewn into the emergency vest at the extreme opposite of the male fasteners; also with female fasteners on the vest-back sides with their respective straps, each sewn into the emergency vest at the extreme opposite of the female fasteners On its left side, the vest features twin supports at the left upper area whose purpose is bearing a clip whistle alert or similar device, held by the supports as well as a whistle-pull tied to those supports, as a redundant grasping mechanism for preventing the whistle alert's loss; the whistle alert is exposed on the vest, offering autonomy in case hands have been immobilized; simple neck movements access the whistle for emitting signs-of-life or other alerts. At the top-left of the vest-front there is a transparent-front patch pocket, sewn into the vest with a Velcro closure at the top. The clear-front patch pocket is sufficiently large to hold an ID card and in this way serves to facilitate identifying the vest wearer. It thus conveys autonomy on emergency vest wearers for identification even if they are rendered unconscious. Under that pocket, at the middle-upper left area of the emergency vest-front, there is a hidden commando pouch, with a top-border zipper. This invisible commando pouch is sewn into the vest lining only at the top. The hidden commando pouch is large enough to hold a compact, portable multifunctional device such as a radio or flashlight that emits illuminated signals, alarms for help, has a cellphone charger operating on dynamo power; or can hold special medications, spare eyeglasses, house or car keys. Beneath pouch, in the mid-section of the emergency vest's left side, there is a hidden commando pouch, zippered at top, that is sewn to the vest lining only at the top, large enough to hold an energy bar, an anti-dust mask or a thermal rescue blanket. Under the pouch, on the lower part of the emergency vest's left side, there is a hidden commando pouch, zippered at the top, and sewn to the vest lining only at the top. This hidden commando pouch is for wearers' personal use. On the right side of the front upper area the vest features a rectangular and vertical hidden commando pouch on a slight leftward diagonal, open at the top with piping, sewn to the vest's lining only at the top. This pouch is specially designed to hold a 500 ml water bottle. Thus vest wearers achieve autonomy for rehydration since they must merely pull the water bottle out of the hidden commando pouch to take it out and rehydrate. Above that hidden commando pouch, the emergency vest features a support so if the water bottle has a straw, it will be aimed at the mouth via such a support. Thus, vest wearers enjoy autonomy when rehydrating even when hands are immobilized since they rehydrate just by moving their heads. In the vest's middle-right side, beneath hidden commando pouch, the emergency vest features another hidden commando pouch, zippered at the top, sewn into the vest lining at the top only. This hidden commando pouch is designed to hold cellphones that assure outside communications, a first-aid mini-kit and a USB pen-drive (extractable memory device) that contains wearers' and their families' official digitized documents. Beneath hidden commando pouch, on the emergency vest's lower right side, there is a hidden commando pouch, zippered at the top, that is sewn into the vest lining only at the top, large enough to hold a rescue knife with a glass-breaker and belt/cable cutters. Sewn into the emergency vest's placket at the interior view of the vest's right side is an inside patch pocket zippered on the right side, specially designed to carry money or credit cards both discreetly and easily accessed. The emergency vest features a complete hood that in addition to offering protection from rain, serves to self-contain the emergency vest. This self-containment via the vest-back features a Velcro, sewn into the top of the vest-back, its male tape facing up. The aforementioned hood features female Velcro; the purpose of both male and female Velcro is self-containing the vest. There is a handle available at the hood's lower-middle area used to carry the self-contained vest.

6. In line with claim 1, the emergency response vest is thus characterized because the ID card has information fields for medical attention and contact information printed on one side; the other side just portrays a brand logo.

7. In line with claim 1, the emergency response vest is thus characterized because supports and may be made with buttonholes or loops.

8. In line with claim 1, the emergency response vest is thus characterized because it is made of fabric that protects contained survival items from water.