Patent ID: 6640340
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: A41B

Abstract:
A blanket for swaddling an infant, comprising:a front panel and a back panel, each having a lower edge, with the lower edges joined to define an interior compartment for receiving the infant with the lower edges wrapped around the feet of the infant, the front and back panels each having an upper edge, with the upper edges separate from each other for creating an opening through which the infant can be positioned within the interior compartment and out which the head of the infant can extend, the front and back panels generally having a centerline along which the infant is positioned within the interior compartment, the centerline being generally perpendicular to the upper and lower edges of the front and back panels, the front and back panels each having overlying right side edges, the right side edges having an angular extent relative the centerline, the front and back panels adjacent their lower edges having a narrow width defined by the angular extent of their right edges, the front and back panels proximate the right side edges having a right side fold line defining a right-hand folding section of the panels, the front and back panels also including left side edges opposite the right side edges, the front and back panels having a left side fold line proximate the left side edges defining a left-hand folding section of the panels, a first fold position formed when the right-hand folding section is folded about the right side fold line over the front side of an infant in the interior compartment, the angular extent of the right side edges in the first fold position forming an upward angular folding direction for the left-hand folding section, the angular folding direction being oriented generally perpendicular to the angular extent of the right side edges of the right-hand folding section in the first fold position, and a second fold position formed when the left-hand folding section is folded about the left side fold line in the upward angular folding direction over both the front side of an infant in the interior compartment and the right-hand folding section in the first fold position, the left-hand folding section in the second fold position having sufficient width for the left side edges of the front and back panels to extend to the back side of that infant.