Patent ID: 7174571

Claim:
A bib for protecting against soiling of the upper front torso of a wearer, said bib comprising: a flexible, liquid impervious sheet having a top, a bottom and opposing side edges providing an upper neck portion and a torso portion, the upper neck portion including a U-shaped neck opening having an arcuate front neck opening engaging a concave body surface portion, the upper neck portion further including opposing shoulder elements that extend upwardly adjacent to the U-shaped neck opening, the shoulder elements having releasable fastening elements mounted thereon, the torso portion including bilateral, elongate side pockets each extending downwardly on a respective opposing side, a transverse bottom pocket extending transversely across the bottom for integrally and communicably coupling with respective lower ends of said side pockets, and the side and bottom pockets being held in open positions to contain food and drink spillage from the wearer; gathering means being embedded in the periphery of the arcuate front neck opening for crimping longitudinally inwardly to form the concave body surface portion and conduit channels in said concave body surface portion for directing spillage toward and into said pockets.