Patent ID: 8032958
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: A41B

Abstract:
1. A swaddling blanket, comprising: a base outer blanket having a substantially square-shaped configuration defined by four corner flap members and four side edge portions connecting said four corner flap members together, inner and outer surface portions, and a space defined upon an inner surface portion of an upper one of said four corner flap members upon which an infant is to be placed, whereby the remaining three corner flap members of said outer blanket define a lower corner flap member, a left side corner flap member, and a right side corner flap member; an inner blanket fixedly secured to said inner surface portion of said outer blanket within a substantially central region of said outer blanket adjacent to said space defined upon said inner surface portion of said upper one of said four corner flap members upon which the infant is to be placed so as to effectively surround said space upon which the infant is to be placed; wherein said inner blanket comprises three blanket flap members comprising a bottom flap member and a pair of laterally spaced left and right side flap members, which are adapted to be sequentially folded over the infant when the infant is placed upon said inner surface portion of said upper one of said four corner flap members of said outer blanket; and wherein further, said three remaining corner flap members of said four corner flap members of said outer blanket, aside from said upper one of said four corner flap members of said outer blanket upon which the infant is to be placed, are adapted to be sequentially folded over said three blanket flap members of said inner blanket, which have been sequentially folded over the infant, such that the infant is enclosed within a dual-layer blanket comprising said inner and outer blankets, wherein each one of said inner and outer blankets, comprising said dual-layer blanket, comprises a three-layer blanket assembly formed by said three blanket flap members of said inner blanket and said three corner flap members of said outer blanket whereby the infant is enclosed within six layers of said swaddling blanket so as to be provided with the requisite amount of warmth.