Patent ID: 7147105

Claim:
A sheath for a manually manipulated controller having at least one accessible button control or rotary control, comprising: top and bottom flexible panels, said top panel including a contoured perimeter and said bottom panel including a substantially like-configured perimeter; said contoured perimeter including a rounded first end portion having first and second opposite ends and having first and second linear side portions, said first side portion being an extension of said first end of said rounded first end portion, and said second side portion being an extension of said second end of said rounded first end portion; said contoured perimeter including third and fourth linear side portions, each having respective first and second ends, said third and fourth linear side portions ends being adjacently spaced apart from said first and second linear side portions; said contoured perimeter further including first and second shoulder portions interposed to extend from respective ones of said second end of said first linear side portion and said second end of said second linear side portion and defining a continuous transition between each of said second ends of said first and second linear side portions and said first ends of said third and fourth linear side portions; said panels being overlaid on one another with their respective contoured perimeters in register; means bonding said overlaid panels to one another along their respective overlaid rounded first end portions, along their respective linear side portions and along their respective shoulder portions; one of said first and second shoulder portions defining an uninterrupted transition between its respective linear side portions and the other of said first and second shoulder portions defining a scalloped transition between its respective linear side portions, whereby said scalloped transition exhibits expansibility in excess of the expansibility of said uninterrupted transition for the receipt therein of the at least one button control or rotary control of the manually manipulated controller when the controller is disposed within the sheath.