US2101701A - Sleeping garment - Google Patents

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Dec. 7, 1937. l.. COHEN 2,101,701

' SLEEPING GARMENT 1 Filed Dec 21, 1936 Patented '7, Y1937 uNl-TED STATES `PATEVr]v OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to bed robes and more specifically to robing for children in bed.

In general, it is an object of the invention to provide a device of the character described, which will emciently perform the purposes for which it is intended, which is simple and economical of construction, which can be expeditiously, conveniently and safely manipulated, and which can be readily manufactured and assembled.

Another object of the invention is to provide bed robes, particularly for children, part of any assembly of which is a bed robe garment which a child might normally wear alone as a garment and part of any assembly of which is a robe for r a bed which normally might be used as a blanketlike covering, which bed robes may be caused to act together as a unit but which maybe used separately; to provide the separate parts of said unit; to provide such a unit having no sharp points, temporarily protected or not; to provide such a unit which. is separated into its parts only with dimculty by a child wearing the same, due in part to the positioning of various cooperating elements; to provide such a-unitwhich keeps the arm and leg extremities covered and the face uncovered; and to provide such a unit the parts of which are not apt to be torn when in use.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in theclaims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the. following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in

which:

Figure 1 is a front view of one element of a combination which is an embodiment of one form of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the element shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another element of said combination; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective Aview of the elements shown in Figs. 1 .and 3, as used in combination. There are certain problems which arise when it is attempted to keep a child, or some sick person, or an old invalid, properly covered in bed. Certain of these dimculties, of course, arise in the case of anyone in bed. .Particularly is a child apt to become uncovered. On the other hand, it

may well become so entangled in the bed robes that it does not obtain sufficient fresh air. The use of pins and even of safety pins, not only with children, but with anybody, is dangerous. Any sharp-pointed instrument, whether temporarily protected or not, may, on occasion, inflict a wound on the sleeper. Also, such instruments have a tendencyto tear the bed clothes and, all in all, are unsatisfactory.

It, is contemplated that the discovery described herein will avoid these above-mentioned inconveniences and, in practice, it has been found to be capable of simply' and easily protecting the sleeper. y

The present device includes a sleeping robe 15 garment and a sleeping robe blanket. The garments referred to herein and in the claims, may be pajamas, night gowns, sleeping suits,'or any other piece of night clothing. The blanket-like robe may be of any type, preferably flat, of material which is commonly spread over a sleeper. Its weight may or may not depend upon the weather. It may be as light as a thin sheet, or heavier, as a quilt woolen blanket.

Fastening means of the buttoning type are r provided on the front and back of the pajamas. Fastening means adapted to cooperate with those on the pajamas are associated with the blanket. -The latter is of sufilcient width to reach from the back of the sleeper at least around to the front. It may be of any length, preferably extending from the shoulders at least to the knees.

The fastening means on the back of the pajamas may be placed at the top near the shoulder blades or in some similar position where the sleeper will not normally be able to, or find it convenient to, unfasten them. These means may comprise buttons i2 on the back of the pajamas it. There may be one or more buttons it at the top of the front of the pajamas and button means i6 associated with the knees of the pajamas. A pair of button holes it in the blanket 20 are positioned, preferably at one end thereof, so as to register with the buttons I2. Spaced from, the button holes i3 at a suitable distance so that it may register with the button holes it when the blanket 20 is wrapped around the child after the button holes iB have been attached to buttons I2, there is a button hole 22. Likewise, there are button holes 24 in the blanket to button over the knee buttons i6.

There may be other buttons placed at other advantageous points. Certain of the buttons may also have other uses and certain or all of the buttons may be replaced with button holes and the corresponding securing member on the other main element of the combination may be buttons.

Also, it is often desirable that the distance between button holes I8 and 22 may be so small that the blanket binds an arm of the sleeper against the side of the sleeper lightly, so that there might be less freedom of motion which might lead to the unfastening, unconsciously or otherwise, of the buttoning means. Further buttoning means may be placed so that the free edges of the blanket along one side of the sleeper may be buttoned to each other, or to the back or side of the pajamas.

It will be evident that the present invention provides means whereby a. child may be kept covered and warm in bed without danger of the blanket being either pulled up over its head or thrown off.

Since certain changes may be made in the above article and different embodiments of the invention could be made Without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a device of the character described, a sleeping garment, buttoning means associated with the upper back and the upper front of said garment, blanket-like means adapted to extend across the back/around to the front and across the front oi said garment, and cooperating buttoning means associated with said blanket-like means and positioned to register respectively with said buttoning means which are associated with said garment.

2. In a device of the character described, a childs sleeping garment, button means associated with the hind side of said garment and out of reach of a child wearing said garment, button means associated with the front side of said garment near the top of said garment, blanket means adapted to be wrapped about said garment and cooperating button hole means associated with said blanket means and positioned to register respectively with said button means.

3. The combination comprising a suit of pajamas having back, front, and knee portions, buttons fixed to the upper part of said back portion of said pajamas and out of the normal reach of an individual wearing said pajamas, button means xed to the upper part of said front of said pajamas, button means xed to said pajamas in the region of said knee portions, a blanket adapted to be wrapped around said pajamas when said pajamas are being worn by an individual and adapted to extend across said back portion and around to the said front and across the said front portion of said pajamas, and button holes fixed with respect to said blanket and positioned to cooperate and register, when said blanket is in said wrapped position about said pajamas, respectively with said buttons and button means.

LEONARD COHENn

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