Baby Garment with Removable and Replaceable Portion

A garment with a removable and resealable portion across the front.

BACKGROUND

Babies often wear garments that cover them entirely, but yet have openings to allow changing the baby's diaper and to enable clothing changes. Babies get dirty when they eat. When that happens, the entire garment then needs to be changed.

SUMMARY

The present application describes a special baby garment which has a removable and replaceable front part that enables the baby to be kept dry and safe, to keep the baby healthy, happy, clean and dry and assist in making the mom stress less.

The removable and replaceable part enables replacement of the area near the baby's mouth/face. This carries out very easy changing and unchanging as well as keeping the baby warm and safe since the baby does not need to be changed as often. According to an embodiment, the system is referred to as the “Baby Luv Shib”.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present invention describes an item of clothing with a removable part spanning the neck area of the clothing.

An embodiment, described herein, describes using a one-piece item of clothing, e.g, an item of clothing where The clothing is a single piece suit, having integral arms and legs, and having the openings at the ends of the arms for the hands to emerge an opening on the legs for the feet to emerge. The single piece part of the suit covers the shoulders, arms, stomach and legs. In one embodiment, this is a single piece item of clothing for babies.

The clothing can be a sleeper, shirt or any other clothing.

The clothing can be made of any material preferably a material that is hypoallergenic and non-rash forming, such as mixed cotton, polyester or other baby-safe material.

A removable portion130is removable from the rest of the clothing item. The removable portion130detaches from shoulder to shoulder, and down to a stomach area of the clothing allowing removal of the chest portion of the sleeper when that portion is dirty, thus enabling putting on a new portion without changing the clothing entirely. In this way, for example when the baby (or child) eats, and in the process gets food on an area under their face, they can change only that part of the clothing, without changing the entire item of clothing.

An embodiment is shown inFIG. 1, where the baby100is shown next to the garment110. The garment110is shown as a one-piece item of clothing, including leg portions112, arm portions114, and a neck area120which scoops downward from the shoulder areas at both sides123,124. and is cut out around the neck area.

The inner shape of the cut out portion120extends down from both shoulders122,123, towards the stomach portion, extending approximately to or just above the belly button area shown as125, the lower most edge of the cut out. The outer shape of the cut out portion120is generally rounded at most points and avoids straight line areas. The edge of the cut out portion defines a perimeter, and the outer edge of the cut out portion includes a resealable strip fastener122extending along that perimeter. In an embodiment shown inFIG. 1, 122is a first resealable strip, which is shown in this embodiment as hook and eye material (e.g, Velcro™), however can be any other closure mechanism including other removable material in other embodiments, as described herein.

The removable portion130is seperable from the shirt part of the garment110, and attachable to the shirt part. The removable portion130itself has a resealable strip132, a ‘second resealable strip’, that extends around the perimeter of the removable portion. The removable portion is sized and cut to a similar shape to the cut out portion120, but slightly larger than the cut out portion120by at least a margin of a size of the resealable strip. In this way, the first perimeter of the first resealable strip on the garment110, is the same size as the second perimeter of the second resealable strip on the removable portion130.

In operation, the main part of the clothing110is put on the baby100first as shown inFIG. 2, covering the torso area other than the open chest/neck area120, but covering the baby's arms and legs. This leaves the neck area125open with the strip122thereon surrounding the open area120.

Then, the removable portion130is attached by attaching the connection portion132on the perimeter of the removable130to the corresponding connection portion122on the other clothing.

At this point the baby is fully covered as shown inFIG. 3, with the removable portion130attached to cover the entire open portion120. In the embodiment, the removable strip132surrounding the lower perimeter of the removable portion130mates to and attaches to the correspondingly sized and shaped strip122surrounding the shoulder and stomach portion of the clothing110.

In one embodiment, the removable strip covers only the front portion of the clothing110as shown inFIG. 1. The removable strip122begins at one shoulder122, and extends continuously down towards the stomach area although generally curved, generally curving across the stomach area above the belly button, and generally curving back up to the other shoulder area at123. There is no closure mechanism, (in this embodiment, Velcro™) in the rear portion140of the clothing110or the rear portion141,142of the removable portion130. An additional advantage of this system is its safety: since it needs not be fastened completely around the baby's neck, there is less chance for baby strangulation of any type.

However, if the baby in the process of eating or the like soils themselves, then the removable portion130can be replaced without removing the entire item of clothing.

In an embodiment, the removable portion goes from the shoulder122, to a bottom most location125, which is for example, 8 inches deep in the chest area going around to the other shoulder123, to facilitate catching all food and debris.

The above embodiment describes using Velcro as the resealable and removable strip. In another embodiment, shown inFIG. 4, the removable strip400connects via a zipper410to the item of clothing420. The removable item400can thus zip on and off of the item of clothing.

In another embodiment, shown inFIG. 5, the removable strip500uses buttons, where there are buttons such as510on the removable strip, and buttonholes such as511on the item of clothing or on the removable portion.

In another embodiment, shown inFIG. 6, the strip is a magnetic strip600which connects to a correspondingly shaped and sized magnetic strip605.

In other embodiments, this can use ties which tie on, magnets, or other kinds of closure mechanisms such as electrostatic closure mechanisms. For example, the removable portion can be electrostatically charged to electrostatically hold to the open portion of the clothing.

In another embodiment, this can be used on any item of clothing which includes a shirt portion. For example, this can be used as part of a baby shirt or child shirt, without the necessity for covering the legs also.