Patent ID: 6364183
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: A45F

Abstract:
A device for carrying mail, the device adapted to be carried on a person's inner forearm between the elbow and the hand, the device including:a. a flat, flexible base unit which comprises: i. a rectangular back portion, an extended left side flap, striated to form a curving side wall, and an extended bottom flap, striated to form a curving bottom wall; ii. a foam pad mounted on the reverse side of said back portion; iii. a moisture-impermeable fabric layer mounted on top of said foam pad, being of size sufficient to cover entire said base unit, with said foam pad captured therein; iv. a plurality of fastening devices as a means of attaching a retaining strap and a removably attached absorbent cover to said base unit and v. fabric or synthetic trims sewn around said base unit to provide a finished edge; b. a movable retaining strap comprising: i. two sections of an elastic material, of a predetermined length, each section having first and second ends, each said first end having a means of releasable attachment to said fastening devices of said base unit on said reverse side of said base unit, at points perpendicular to, and inside, the top and right edges, respectively, of said back portion; ii. a rigid transparent member, of a predetermined length, being removably attached to said elastic material sections at said second ends thereof; c. a washable absorbent cover being of a size sufficient as to be folded about a respective edge of said base unit, with a sewn finished edge, said absorbent cover comprising: i. a body contacting quick-drying moisture-permeable cover layer; ii. an absorbent core on top of said body-contacting moisture-permeable cover layer, said absorbent core being in a moisture-communicative relationship with the cover layer, whereby perspiration in contact with said cover layer is transferred to said absorbent core to be retained therein; iii. a moisture impermeable barrier layer on top of said absorbent core, said barrier layer preventing moisture entrapped in said absorbent core from egressing the barrier layer onto surface of said base unit; and iv. a plurality of releasable fastening devices as a means of attaching said absorbent cover to said fastening devices of said base unit.