Patent Publication Number: US-2022218122-A1

Title: Harness for restraining a child in a bed

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention pertains to devices like safety belts or body harnesses and methods for limiting the displacement of the human body. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Prior art on harnesses for children can be found with application mainly to avoid the child to roll over when laying on a bed. These prior arts include the mean by wish the harness is attached to the bed, which for the present invention is not specified and any means can be used. Harnesses usually are made of straps that are not appealing to the view and usually are associated with a physical or mental illness. The design of the present invention changes how a harness is seen by the child and parents since it offers a design that looks like a diaper that can be used with any prior art regarding restraining a child. 
     SUMMARY 
     The harness of the present invention overcome shortcomings of existing prior arts for restraining a child in a bed, such as disowned style, the use of plastic buckles of fastening, composed of more than one part, as well as the impossibility or discomfort to be worn before the child is put to bed. 
     The harness is just one piece that when fully opened looks like a T and it is worn like a diaper. It has pieces of hook and loop fasteners to adjust the harness to the waist of the child and a folding section as a safety mechanism to avoid the child to reach the hook and loop fasteners. 
     Once the harness is fastened to the child, a strip with a hook such as a baby safety pin clip can be used to restrain the child. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  shows the harness fully opened to illustrate the waistband ( 100 ), crotch ( 200 ), and hook and loop buckle ( 300 ) sections defined by the dashed lines. 
         FIG. 2  shows side A of the harness with the two small loop fasteners ( 110 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ). 
         FIG. 3  shows side B of the harness with the two small hook fasteners ( 120 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ) and the large hook fastener ( 320 ) and large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ). 
         FIG. 4  shows the harness after the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) has been moved upwards after folding up the crotch section ( 200 ). 
         FIG. 5  shows the harness after the small loop fasteners ( 110 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ) has been buckled to the large hook fastener ( 320 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) exposing the two small hook fasteners ( 120 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ) and the large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ). 
         FIG. 6  shows the front view (left) and back view (right) of the harness fully assembled after the large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop section ( 300 ) has been buckled with the two small hook fasteners ( 120 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ). 
         FIG. 7  illustrates the stages of how the harness is fastened to a child. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The harness of the present invention can be put to a child indistinctly if the child is awake or asleep. The harness can be used by both belly sleepers and back sleepers. Since the harness looks and is worn as a diaper, it can be put on the child before going to bed to avoid discomfort if the child is asleep. 
     The harness, as shown in  FIG. 1 , looks like T when fully opened. Although the harness is just one piece, three sections are identified: the waistband ( 100 ), the crotch ( 200 ), and the hook and loop buckle ( 300 ). Both sides of the harness have pieces of hook and loop fasteners and are identified as side A ( FIG. 2 ) and side B ( FIG. 3 ). 
       FIG. 2  shows side A of the harness which is identified because it has only two small loop fasteners ( 110 ) in the waistband section ( 100 ). These two small loop fasteners ( 110 ) are used to adjust the harness to the waist of the child by fastening them to the hook fastener ( 320 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ). 
       FIG. 3  shows side B of the harness which is identified because it has the large hook fastener ( 320 ) and large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ). 
     To put the harness to the child, the harness is placed on the mattress as shown in  FIG. 2 , that is, with side B of the harness in contact with the mattress and side A facing the parent. With the harness in this position, the child (facing up or down) is placed on top of side A of the harness with the waist at the height of the waistband section ( 100 ) and the crotch section ( 200 ) in the direction of the legs. 
     Once the child is on top of the harness, the crotch section ( 200 ) is folded up and the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) would lean on the belly or back of the child and it will look as shown in  FIG. 4 . The two sides of the waistband section ( 100 ) are folded to fasten the two small loop fasteners ( 110 ) with the large hook fastener ( 320 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) and it will look as shown in  FIG. 5 . The length of the large hook fastener ( 320 ) allows the adjustment of the harness to the waist of the child. The exposed large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) is brought down to fasten it with the two small hook fasteners ( 120 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ). The large loop fastener ( 310 ) mainly function is to cover the ends of the waistband section ( 100 ) as a safety mechanism to avoid that the child reaches the hook and loop fasteners. Once the harness has been fastened, the front and back of it would look like shown in  FIG. 6 . 
     Operation of the Presently Preferred Embodiment 
     The operation of the harness is illustrated in  FIG. 7  for the case of a child that will sleep on his/her back. The child is put on top of the harness fully extended. The crotch section ( 200 ) is folded up to bring the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) to the belly of the child. The two small loop fasteners ( 110 ) on the sides of the waistband section ( 100 ) are fastened with the large hook fastener ( 320 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) while adjusting the harness to the waist of the child. The large loop fastener ( 310 ) on the hook and loop buckle section ( 300 ) is brought down to fasten it with the two hook fasteners ( 120 ) on the waistband section ( 100 ). Once the harness has been fastened, any means can be used to attach the harness to a fixed point in the bed to restrain the movement of the child.