Patent ID: 6324697
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
A student's book carrying vest consists of:inner and outer flexible generally coextensive sheets having common front, neck and lower hem edge margins connected together to define a back panel and right and left front panels, said outer sheet being continuous and substantially uninterrupted;spaced arm holes formed through said inner and outer sheets;said inner and outer sheets also connected together along generally upright elongated intermediate margins between said back panel and said right and left front panels, respectively, to define, in combination with corresponding said front and hem edge margins, a back pocket and right and left front pockets;a single closable elongated pocket-forming slit formed only through said inner sheet and across substantially an entire width of an upper portion of each said pocket;each of said pockets and slits sized in height and width to fully receive a student's book placed therein and to protectively conceal each such book when a corresponding said slit is closed;said lower hem of said inner sheet including an expandable fold positioned adjacent to, and generally coextensive with, said lower hem of said inner sheet whereby a book placed into one of said pockets will cause said fold to expand and allow the book to rest directly against and be substantially fully supported in proximity against said lower hem.