Apparel – Garment protectors – Aprons
Patent
1983-04-19
1984-05-01
Troutman, Doris
Apparel
Garment protectors
Aprons
A41B 1310
Patent
active
044452314
ABSTRACT:
A bib, preferably disposable, having a top panel, a full-width pocket having side seams, and an apron panel which pendulously depends from the transverse upper edge of the front wall of the pocket (i.e., a pocket panel) so that the weight of the apron panel acts to gravitationally open the pocket and hold it open, and so that the apron panel may be used as a face wipe without inverting the pocket. Gravitational opening of the pocket is further enabled by virtue of the transverse upper edge of the pocket panel being disposed at a higher elevation than the top ends of the side seams of the pocket when viewed with the bib in its use orientation and/or by securing together face-to-face areas of the pocket panel and the apron panel which are disposed adjacent their coextensive upper edges. Preferably such areas which are secured in face-to-face relation are centrally disposed with respect to the width of the bib. Also, preferably, the bib is a unitary structure comprising a sheet of a crease sustaining laminated material having an absorbent front lamina, and wherein the panels are demarked from each other by transverse fold lines which have been creased. Additionally, the bib may further comprise: a duplex refastenable tape fastener; a line-of-weakening to enable detaching all or part of the apron panel for use as a post-use wipe; and a detachable neck-opening portion.
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Braun Fredrick H.
Slone Thomas J.
The Procter & Gamble & Company
Troutman Doris
Witte Richard C.
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