Apparel apparatus – Supports – bases and strands
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-13
2001-06-12
Mohanty, Bibhu (Department: 3741)
Apparel apparatus
Supports, bases and strands
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244480
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of mannequins, garment caddies or valets, and more particularly to a novel figurine for supporting a variety of garments allowing the user to make personalized selection of garments in a coordinated, educational and fashionable manner.
2. Brief Description of the Prior Art
In the past, it has been the conventional practice for persons to select a wardrobe by removing clothes from a closet, cabinet or the like and placing the garments in some form of coordinated position on the bed, chair or even the floor. In other instances, people may select certain garments and progress through the closet by holding the garment against other garments to check style, color and fashion coordination. The coordination of clothes is a learned skill and it is difficult for children to coordinate their wardrobes without some motivation and assistance from parents.
Some attempts have been made to provide a hanging arrangement for children's clothes which usually provides for a backboard having a plurality of pegs or hooks outwardly projecting from the backboard on which clothes are supported. Such a device for assisting a child in selecting wardrobe is ineffective since the clothes are not arranged in a simulated form as would be normally worn. Also, the hanging of clothes on hooks or pegs has a tendency to distort the shape of the garments and in some instances, may even cause damage.
Therefore, a long-standing need has existed to provide a novel means for supporting a plurality of garments in a fashionable way so that children can readily coordinate their own personalized wardrobe. Such a means must also include structure which motivates the child to use the device for wardrobe coordination.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the above problems and difficulties are avoided by the present invention which provides a novel figurine that may be self-supporting or may be hung on the wall and wherein a backboard is shaped in the form of an individual of any particular gender, animal or comic character. The shape of the backboard constitutes a figurine having a torso central portion with arm and leg extremities outwardly projecting therefrom as well as a head including face and hair simulations. The hair is formed in hardwood cutout fashion or soft yarn of different colors. A feature of the garment figurine resides in providing a central opening in the torso portion of the backboard which supports a mirror usable when clothes are not put on the figurine shaped backboard. A plurality of attachment tabs or points are provided about the central opening occupied by the mirror which constitute fastening locations whereby selected garments may be temporarily placed against the backboard and held in position by such means as magnets, clips or the like. Preferably, such attachment points would reside at the top of the mirror and at the sides of the mirror which represent the shoulders and waist of the figurine. Attachment means may be employed on the back of the backboard for hanging the backboard on a wall surface.
Therefore, it is among the primary objects of the present invention to provide a baseboard or backboard member shaped as a figurine on which selected garments may be removably attached so that the user of the device may personalize selection of a daily wardrobe.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel garment figurine for removably supporting various items of clothing so that the user can visually observe color, style and-texture for wardrobe selection.
Yet another object resides in providing a garment figurine having the means for detachably supporting a variety of garments on the front face thereof and it would further include a central mirror for use when the garments have been removed.
Still a further object resides in providing a garment figurine or caddy for holding various articles of clothing for wardrobe selection and which includes motivating designs and shapes so that the device is educational as well as playful.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3010225 (1961-11-01), Hale
patent: 4739911 (1988-04-01), Quinn
patent: 5727717 (1998-03-01), Vigne
patent: 5971555 (1999-10-01), Wilcox et al.
Sepulveda Alfredo R.
Sepulveda Audrey M.
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