US2635243A

US2635243A - Reversible bib

Info

Publication number: US2635243A
Application number: US263522A
Authority: US
Inventors: Barbara S Eskey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1951-12-27
Filing date: 1951-12-27
Publication date: 1953-04-21
Anticipated expiration: 1970-04-21

Description

Patented Apr. 21, 1953 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates in general to new and useful improvements in bibs, and, particularly, of the type used by children for protecting the clothing of the wearer.

Childrens bibs are customarily constructed in such a way as to provide a front sheet of cloth or other similar material adapted to cover the chest of the child and have suitable means such as tapes or strings adapted to be tied around the neck to support the bib in place. If the bib is constructed of an absorbent material, food substances thereon will be absorbed but may be such as to pass through the sheet material onto the other side and still soil the childs clothes.

A protective covering at the rear of the absorbent sheet aids in overcoming the objectionable feature of the absorbent material when used alone, but it is still necessary to launder the bib after it has been used once or twice because of the single surface of the absorbent material and the single surface of the non-absorbent material which can be used. 7

It is therefore a principal object of the present invention to provide a construction of a childs bib which will enable more than the customary two surfaces to be used.

Another object of the invention is to provide a childs bib capable of utilizing all of the surfaces of the material used in making the bib, thereby requiring laundering less often.

A further object of the invention is to provide a childs bib wherein a sheet of absorbent material and a sheet of non-absorbent material are secured together in such a way that the relative positions of the two sheets of material can be reversed, thereby presenting four clean surfaces for use instead of the customary two surfaces.

A still further and more specific object of the invention is to provide a childs bib consisting of a sheet of absorbent material having a neck out out portion and a sheet of non-absorbent .material also having a neck out out portion wherein the two sheets are secured together only along the edge of the cut out portion, thereby enabling the positions of the two sheets of material to be reversed so that four surfaces instead of two surfaces may become useful.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the follow ing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bib in accordance with the present invention illustrating the absorbent sheet at the front thereof;

Fig. 2 is a vertical, transverse, sectional view taken along the plane of line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the bib similar to Fig. 1 but illustrating the use of the noniabsorbent sheet at the front thereof;

Fig. l is a view similar to Fig. 3 illustrating the non-absorbent sheet being separated from the absorbent sheet in the initial steps of reversing; and

Fig. 5 illustrates the non-absorbent sheet being moved to its reversed position at the opposite side of the absorbent sheet.

For purposes of convenience, the absorbent sheet which may be formed of any suitable material, such as toweling or terry cloth, may be considered as being the front sheet as the bib is illustrated in Fig. 1, although the bib may be placed over the chest of the child so that the non-absorbent sheet is outermost and may be termed the front if so desired.

The absorbent sheet I as illustrated in the drawing may assume any desired configuration suitable for covering the chest of a child, and has been illustrated herein as being substantially rectangular. The non-absorbent sheet is indicated at 2 and is disposed to cover one side of the absorbent sheet I. The two sheets are preferably, although not necessarily, of substantially the same size and shape.

Both sheets i and 2 are provided at the upper part thereof with a neck out out portion 3 to receive the childs neck for properly positioning the bib and fastening it in place. A binding material 4 is secured along the edges of the absorbent sheet I and terminates at its ends at the juncture of the neck out out portion 3 as indicated at 5 and 6. v

Additional binding material is fixed along the edge of the neck out out portion as shown at 1 and this latter binding has end extensions 8 and 9 of sufficient length to enable them to pass around to the rear of the childs neck and be tied, whereby the bib will remain in fixed position.

The non-absorbent sheet 2 is entirely free of the absorbent sheet I except in the neck out out portion 3. The binding I may embrace the edge of the absorbent sheet I and non-absorbent sheet 2 in the neck out out portion as indicated in Fig. 2, or the non-absorbent sheet 2 may be fixed or attached separately to the outside of the binding in the neck out out portion, if so desired.

The extent of the means for attaching the nonabsorbent sheet 2 to the absorbent sheet I within the neck out out portion 3 is relatively immaterial except that it is important that this attaching means not be extended beyond the points and 6, otherwise the free ends 8 and 9 could not conveniently be utilized when the two sheets are in their reversed position from that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 illustrates the hib wherein the non-absorbent sheet 2 is utilized as the front. This non-absorbent sheet, when used as the front, can be kept clean conveniently by merely wiping with a damp cloth. When the absorbent sheet I is used as the front in accordance with Fig. 1, any liquid or food particles dropped onto the bib and absorbed by this front sheet will not stain the childs clothes due to the presence of the non-absorbent sheet 2 at the rear thereof. It it thus evident that two surfaces may be made useful as the front of the bib.

The bib of the present invention, however, embodies the additional important feature that the non-absorbent sheet 2 may have its position reversed and be moved to a location on the opposite side of the absorbent sheet i from that shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Fig. 4 illustrates the initial movement of the non-absorbent sheet 2 as it is being reversed. Fig. 5 illustrates substantial completion of the reversing operation where the non-absorbent sheet 2 'is being moved to the opposite side of the absorbent sheet 5. When the reversing operation is completed, the non-a sorbent sheet 2 will be positioned on the opposite side of the absorbent sheet i and this is made possible due to the fact that the two sheets are secured together only within he confines of the neck out out portion 3. This structure thereby enables the free ends 8 and 9 of the binding to extend outwardly from between the two sheets even after they have been reversed so that these free ends can be utilized as before to extend around to the back of the childs neck and be tied together to secure the bib in place.

It is thus evident that a clean and fresh surface of the absorbent material, as well as the additional surface of the non-absorbent material may be presented for use, thus providing a total of four surfaces which are all useful instead of the customary two surfaces. After the non-absorbent sheet has had its position reversed in the manner shown in Fig. 5, the two soiled surfaces of the two sheets are in contact with each other so that the structure has the additional advantage of being adapted to be turned to use he clean surface of the absorbent material without fear of soiling the childs clothes because of the soiled surface of the absorbent sheet facing inwardly.

Changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of parts from those dis.- closed herein without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the attendant advantages thereof, provided, however, that such changes fall within the scope of the claim appended hereto.

The invention ishereby claimed as follows:

A bib comprising a sheet of relatively impervious material and a substantially coextensive sheet of absorbent material, said bib being generally elongated and having one transverse edge provided with a concave portion intermediate the ends thereof, so as to it about the neck of the wearer, a strip of binding material secured to the sheets at the neck-receiving concave portion and extending throughout said portion, the binding material freely extending beyond the ends of the concave portion to provide straps for attaching the bib on the wearer, said binding strip providing means to hinge said sheets and allow the sheet of impervious material to be disposed at will in position overlying either face of the sheet of absorbent material so that the bib may be applied to the wearer with the absorbent sheet overlying the impervious sheet and when the outwardly facing surface of the absorbent sheet shall have become soiled, the impervious sheet may be disposed in position underlying such soiled surface and the bib then applied to the wearer in reverse position with the soiled surface facing the body of the wearer and the im pervious sheet underlying the said soiled surface.

BARBARA S. ESKEY.

References Cited. in the file of this .patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 540,756 Odell June 11, 1895 1,497,756 Jones June 17, 1924 2,262,010 Kuehne -4 Nov. 11, 1941 2,423,489 Dunn July 8, 1947 2,551,907 Serebrin May 8, 1951