US 11,779,063 B2
Garment
Myles Cowburn Burgoyne, York (GB); and Christopher Maidment Green, Knaresborough (GB)
Assigned to GREENBURG UK LIMITED, Knaresborough (GB)
Appl. No. 16/605,664
Filed by Greenburg UK Limited, Knaresborough (GB)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2018, PCT No. PCT/GB2018/050938
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 16, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/193225, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1705748 (GB), filed on Apr. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0037679 A1, Feb. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. A41D 13/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/10 (2006.01); A41D 13/12 (2006.01)
CPC A41D 13/0007 (2013.01) [A61G 7/1051 (2013.01); A41D 13/1236 (2013.01); A61G 7/1015 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment for moving an incapacitated person, comprising:
a wearable body portion in the form of a gown having a neck region, a shoulder region, a waist region, and an open lower end region relative to the incapacitated person wearing the garment; and
a flexible support portion comprising a flexible elongate and longitudinally extending spine element and a plurality of flexible attachment elements attachable to a lifting device,
wherein:
the flexible support portion is permanently fixed to an outer surface of a back side of the body portion and extends from the neck region to the lower end region of the body portion,
the outer surface of the back side of the body portion has no direct contact with a back of the incapacitated person,
the plurality of flexible attachment elements are integrally connected with the spine element,
the elongate and longitudinally extending spine element is located centrally along the back side of the body portion to be disposed substantially along a sagittal plane of the garment,
the plurality of flexible attachment elements comprises:
a first pair of flexible attachment elements extending outwardly in opposed lateral directions from the spine element with respect to the sagittal plane of the garment and proximal the lower end region of the body portion,
a second pair of flexible attachment elements extending outwardly in opposed lateral directions from the spine element with respect to the sagittal plane of the garment and proximal the waist region of the body portion, and
a third pair of flexible attachment elements each extending substantially longitudinally from a respective side of the spine element with respect to the sagittal plane of the garment and proximal the shoulder region of the body portion, and
the first and the second pair of flexible attachment elements extend entirely across and beyond the outer surface of the back side of the body portion.