Patent ID: 8863314

Claim:
A shirt mounted support and transport apparatus adapted for storage and a positioning for use of a planar electronic device having a video display comprising: a shirt worn upon the torso of a wearer having a neck opening and sleeves; a front portion of said shirt positionable over the chest and abdomen of the wearer; a storage compartment formed upon said front portion of said shirt in a central area of said front portion, said central area being between said neck opening and a bottom edge of said shirt; said storage compartment having a back wall and a front wall defining a storage cavity therein adapted in size for said planar electronic device; a flap portion of said front wall separable from said back wall on two opposing side edges and a top edge, said top edge intersecting said opposing side edges at opposite corners, said top edge opposite a bottom edge engaged with said back wall; a pair of flexible support members engaged at respective ends with said shirt and at a respective engagement proximate to one of said corners of said flap portion; said flap portion movable from a stored position substantially vertical with said top edge, and opposing edges proximate to said back wall, to an as-used position substantially perpendicular to said back wall; removable means of engagement of said top edge and said opposing side edges to said back wall adjacent thereto in said stored position, to maintain said flap portion in said stored position; means to bias said flexible support members respectively away from said opposing side edges during a return of said flap portion to said stored position to position said flexible support members out of potential engagement with said removable means of engagement of said opposing side edges; wherein said removable means of engagement of said opposing side edges is a zipper; and said means to bias said flexible support members away from a respective adjacent said opposing side edges comprises an elastic band connected at a first end at a center area of one of said respective said flexible support members between said shirt and one of a respective said corners of said flap portion and at a respective second end in a central area of said back wall, wherein said flexible support members are biased away from said zipper as said flap portion is moved to said stored position; and said flap portion in said as-used position defining a support surface for said planar electronic device having said video display, wherein said wearer can employ their hands and fingers to operate said planar electronic device while standing or walking without having to hold said electronic device in front of them.