Apparel – Body garments – Waists
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-28
2001-04-17
Vanatta, Amy B. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Body garments
Waists
C002S048000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06216274
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a cover up, and more particularly to a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket for mothers to comfortably nurse their baby everywhere with privacy while maintaining their femininity and beauty.
2. Description of Related Arts
Giving birth to a baby is for parents, especially for mothers who had physically and mentally prepared to breastfeed their babies. Breastfeeding has many advantages for babies and their mothers. The breast milk contains higher amounts of nutrients that babies need. Also, epidemiological research shows that breast milk provides extra protection from inflection and other problems that are especially common among babies. For many mothers, breastfeeding is one of the connections that they have with their babies during this period. Mothers report that both they and their babies enjoy the special closeness that occurs during breastfeeding.
However, many mothers claim that breastfeeding their babies in public is embarrassing since they may need to take off their clothes and expose their bodies that may destroy their beauty and femininity. So, most mothers will first save their breast milk in a bottle and feed their babies with the loaded bottle whenever their babies feel hungry. However, the bottles of breast milk may increase the workload to the mothers such as prepare the breast milk in the bottle. Also, it is really difficult to keep the freshness of the bottles of breast milk during outdoors. Therefore, one of the solutions for breastfeeding in public is that mothers have to hide at a corner or a nursing room that seldom stores provide. Furthermore, breastfeeding in public is considered to be illegal in some countries and mothers may be charged as the improper conduct since they expose their bodies in public. Breastfeeding their babies is such a natural thing should not be prohibited and should have the right to nurse their babies anytime or anywhere.
Another alternative solution for breastfeeding in public is to use a blanket to cover up the baby and the exposed breast while breastfeeding, such as U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,479,662 and 5,008,960. However, just a blanket with a strap for anti-fall off still fails to effectively hiding the mother's breast from being seen in all direction. In fact, for most of the conventional blanket type cover up, the mother's breast is still be seen by someone next to the mother.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
A main object of the present invention is to provide a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket, which, during breastfeeding, can effectively cover up the mother's breast from being seen by anyone in all direction while maintaining good air ventilation for the baby and enabling the mother herself to monitor the breastfeeding of her baby through the peek-a-boo pocket, so that the mother may feel comfortable to breastfeed her baby anytime in anywhere.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket, which properly covers a front side of the nursing mother for keeping privacy.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket, which can be used by a mother to either cover her right breast or left breast selectively by the same nursing cover up.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket adapted for maintaining the femininity and beauty when mothers nurse their baby.
Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides a nursing cover up with a peek-a-boo pocket, which comprises:
a body cover having a size adapted for covering at least a chest portion of a mother user and a hanging means for hanging the body cover in front of the mother user,
wherein the body cover comprises a main panel, a side panel and a pocket panel positioned between the main panel and the side panel,
wherein the pocket panel and the side panel are capable of covering one side of the chest portion of the mother user while the main panel is capable of covering another side of the chest portion of the mother user,
wherein the body cover further comprises a peek-a-boo pocket which has a viewing opening formed on the pocket panel that separates the pocket panel into an upper piece and a lower piece, the peek-a-boo pocket comprising a shield flap which extends from a bottom portion of the upper piece of the pocket panel to overlappingly position behind an upper portion of the lower piece of the pocket panel for covering an upper portion of a breast of the mother user, and a pocket lip formed at a top edge of the upper portion of the lower piece wherein the upper portion of the lower piece of the pocket panel is wider than the bottom portion of the upper piece so as to define the viewing opening between the shield flap and the pocket lip for the mother user to monitor her baby therethrough while breastfeeding.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in order to better support the peek-a-boo pocket, the peek-a-boo pocket further comprises means for supporting the pocket lip to keep apart from the shield flap so as to maintain the viewing opening in an open condition for ease of monitoring.
The supporting means may comprises a supporting lining layer attached to at least the upper portion of the lower piece so as to increase the weight of lower piece of the pocket panel with respect to the upper piece of the pocket panel, the main panel and the side panel, so that the heavier upper portion of the lower piece of the pocket panel will remain dropping apart from the shield flap due to gravity. Alternatively, the supporting means can be a flexible supporting wire extended along the pocket lip.
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Chan Raymond Y.
David and Raymond Patent Group
Vanatta Amy B.
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