Apparel – Body garments – Waists
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-06
2001-04-17
Calvert, John J. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Body garments
Waists
Reexamination Certificate
active
06216273
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
This invention relates to childcare and breast-feeding, and in particular to blankets for use by nursing mothers to provide coverage and privacy during breast-feeding.
Typically, nursing mothers have used a basic, flat, rectangular infant blanket as a means of coverage in instances when they are required to breast-feed their baby in public and want to cover their breast from onlookers. This basic rectangular blanket is thrown over the shoulder and baby, but can fall off and does not stay in place and the breast can be revealed, thus privacy is not achieved. Prior art such as the “Privasee Blanket” provides an attachment at only one point of the mothers body, but all other surfaces of the blanket are free. Thus the blanket can still be moved or kicked aside by the baby, thus potentially uncovering the mother's breast.
Both a basic blanket and the Privasee Blanket have difficulty in covering the mother's breast during breast-feeding in a manner which can be maintained about the infant and breast over the duration of the feeding, as the infant moves its arms and kicks its legs about. They both require the mother to continually replace and rearrange the blanket. Therefore, what is needed is a blanket that can be easily manipulated by the mother and quickly put on, and also securely cover the mother's breast during nursing, without falling off.
SUMMARY
The nursing blanket, of this patent is designed to provide privacy for breast feeding mothers while they nurse their babies in instances where privacy is not otherwise possible. The main function of this blanket is to provide cover that will stay in place and not slide out of position, thus exposing the breast or nursing infant. The blanket's design allows the mother to cover her breast and infant while the infant is nursing. The blanket stays in place, while the mother's hands are free and the mother is able to view the infant while nursing.
It is comprised of a single-layer, fabric blanket which is symmetrically shaped as an oval. The ends of the blanket are attached to a shoulder strap on one end, and an arm sleeve at the opposing end. Typically, when nursing an infant, the mother will rest the infant's head on the arm at the same side of the body of which breast the baby will be nursing. When using the nursing blanket, the mother slips her arm through the arm sleeve, and then rests that same arm under the baby's head, the same way she would if she were nursing without a blanket.
The blanket then extends from the arm sleeve fitted around the mother's arm, and under the baby's head, and wraps around the infant's head and torso. The opposite end of the blanket lays over the infant's feet, and tapers into a stretchable shoulder strap, which slips over the mother's hand, and onto her shoulder, thus allowing the coverage of the blanket over the infant and breast to remain in place while the infant is nursing.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
Objects and advantages of the invention are:
a. to provide a coverage of the mother's breast and nursing infant while feeding the infant.
b. to provide a coverage that does not become misplaced during the feeding by the baby's or the mother's movement.
c. to provide a covering that allows the mothers hands to remain free while nursing.
d. to provide a blanket that does not have to be continually replaced when it falls off due to movement.
e. to provide encouragement to nursing mothers by providing a useful tool for breast-feeding in situations where privacy is not an option.
Still further advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing descriptions and drawings.
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Calvert John J.
Grundstrom Richard
Hoey Alissa L.
Williams Cherilyn
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