Patent ID: 8672724
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: A47G,A63H

Abstract:
1. A method of using a convertible slip cover with a convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy, the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy including a rectangular pillow body with a front end, a rear end, a first side, a second side, a top surface, a bottom surface, a head extending from the front end, a first shoulder, a second shoulder co-linear with the front end and the first shoulder, a connecting strap extending from the first side and including a distal end with a fastener, an invisible fold line separating the pillow body into a first side member and a second side member, the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy including a pillow configuration mode where the first side member and the second side member are co-planar, and a stuffed animal configuration mode where the first side member and the second side member are folded about the invisible fold line so that the first side member and the second side member form an angle relative to each other with the invisible fold line forming the vertex of the angle, the connecting strap adapted to couple the first side to the second side along the bottom surface, the convertible slip cover having a rectangular configuration and including a front end, a rear end, a first side, a second side, a top surface, a bottom surface, a neck opening, a first shoulder, a second shoulder co-linear with the front end, an invisible fold line separating the convertible slip cover into a first side member and a second side member, the method comprising: donning the convertible slip cover onto the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy in the pillow configuration so that the rectangular pillow body and connecting strap of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy are disposed within the convertible slip cover, the first and second shoulders of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy are covered by the first and second shoulders of the convertible slip cover, and the head of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy extends through the neck opening of the convertible slip cover; folding the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy and the convertible slip cover about the invisible fold lines of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy and the convertible slip cover so that the first side members and the second side members of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy and the convertible slip cover form angles relative to each other with the invisible fold lines forming the vertices of the angles; coupling the first side of the convertible slip cover and the second side of the convertible slip cover together so that the first and second sides of the convertible slip cover and the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy are arched concave upwards and the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy and the convertible slip cover are in a stuffed animal configuration; wherein the first side of the convertible slip cover includes a side hole and the slip cover includes a fastener adjacent to the second side of the convertible slip cover and the method further includes drawing the connecting strap extending from the first side of the convertible stuffed animal and pillow toy and disposed within the convertible slip cover through the side hole of the convertible slip cover so that the connecting strap extends outside of the convertible slip cover, and coupling the first side of the convertible slip cover and the second side of the convertible slip cover together includes fastening the fastener of the distal end of the connecting strap to the fastener adjacent to the second side of the convertible slip cover.