US2620477A - Rainwear - Google Patents

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1952 H. B. ACKERMAN, JR., ETAL 2,620,477

- RAINWEAR Filed Feb. 15, 1950 INVENTORS.

BY Harold B. Ackermon,Jr.

Beatrice ConnonCulberfson ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 9, 1952 RAINWEAE Harold B. Ackerman, Jr., Brooklyn, and Beatrice Cannon Culbertson, New York, N. Y.

Application February 15, 1950, Serial No. 144,236

2 Claims.

The invention relates to improvements in rainwear and has for its objects: first, to provide a convenient and adequate waterproof protective covering for emergencies at such a low cost as to be considered expendable by the average consumer after one or more wearings; second, to provide adjustable features in the neck opening to permit the wearer to accommodate any seasonal clothing; third, to provide adjustable features in the side closings eliminating more expensive conventional closings; fourth, to provide an emergency protective covering that can be packaged small enough to conserve display and counter space and thereby be displayed at convenient locations such as cigar stands, newspaper stands, drug stores and the like, thus being readily available.

Although rainwear has heretofore been designed utilizing inexpensive waterproof materials, the execution of such designs involves such labor that the production costs would be prohibitive for expendable rainwear. And, heretofore, rainwear has been manufactured with stitched or heat-sealed seams in order to provide adequate coverage and employed conventional closings as snaps, -ties, hooks and eyes, zippers, buttons, et cetera. We use waterproof material, particularly polyethylene, in such a manner as to eliminate costly seams and yet provide an adjustable neck opening and provide adjustable side closings by use of inexpensive pressure sensitive adhesive tape, thereby eliminating costly factors in both labor and materials.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing is a flat view of the invention; Figure 2 is a perspective of the invention; Figure 3 is a fragmentary view showing shoulder closing for the complete protection. This version is most feasible for sheet form of polyethylene. Figure 4 is a fiat view of another version of the invention, with the cut depending on the optional use of tubular form of polyethylene which when split, provides wider sheets than standard widths of sheeting. Figure 5 is a front view of this version in use.

In Figures 1, 2, and 3: At the center of the waterproof material I, is a slit for neck opening 2. At each end of the neck opening 2 are reinforcement tapes 3. Back section 4. Front section 5. The neck opening 2, is adjustable by the optional placement of one single coated adhesive tab, 6. Single coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape tabs, I, are used for adjustable side closings. Also single coated pressure sensitive adhesive tabs, 8, are placed about three inches to the rear of the neck opening 2, on each side of back section, 4, and by bringing each tab, 8, across the chest as shown in Figure 3, affords more complete coverage for the wearer as well as allowing freedom of arm movement.

In Figures 4 and. 5: In waterproof material, I, are slits as shown at 9 and I0. Tapes, II, are used for reinforcements on slits 9 and I0. These slits 9 and I0 indicated by broken lines,

divide material into upper front sections I2 and I3, back section I4 and front skirt sections I5 and I6, indicated by dotted lines. Adhesive tabs I1 and I8 are placed on side edge of section I6 for adjustable front closing and adhesive tab I9 for adjustable upper front closing. Point 26 is to be placed at the nape of the neck by the wearer, bringing section I2 over the shoulder and across the chest, and then criss crossing with section I3, then fastening section I3 to section I2 securely with tab I9, as shown in Figure 5. As shown in Figure 5, panels I2 and I3 and the upper portion of I4 provide a cape-like effect to the hipline affording freedom of arm movement as well as more complete coverage. Bring front skirt sections I5 and I6 together with section I6 overlapping I5, these are held in place by adhering tabs H. To hold skirt section in place, tab I8 is adhered to panel I2.

We claim:

1. A rain protector comprising a sheet of water repellant material of trapezoidal shape having two parallel and two non-parallel sides, said sheet having a slit therein perpendicular to the shorter side of the two parallel sides of said sheet, said sheet also havin a pair of slits therein extending inwardly from both of the non-parallel sides, said slits being parallel to the parallel sides and forming flaps, a pressure sensitive adhesive tape secured adjacent to one of said non-parallel sides near the shorter of said parallel sides and a plurality of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes secured to one of said flaps adjacent to the side of said flap formed by one of said non-parallel sides, a portion of each of said pressure sensitive adhesive tapes extending outwardly from said sheet.

2. A rain protector as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first-mentioned slit extends substantially one-third the distance between said two parallel sides and wherein said second mentioned pair of slits are located a distance from the longer of said two parallel sides approximately equal to one-third the distance between said two parallel sides.

HAROLD B. ACKERM'AN, JR. BEATRICE CANNON CULBERTSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 672,731 Conley Apr. 23, 1901 1,309,537 Miller July 8, 1919 1,316,364 Howard Sept. 16, 1919 1,358,852 Howard Nov. 16, 1920 1,374,301 Howard Apr. 12, 1921 1,569,960 Geisler Jan. 19, 1926 1,864,948 Schmidt June 28, 1932 2,368,272 Sydenham Jan. 30, 1945

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