Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7310825 | Garment element with an access opening In a garment element, for example a cuff for a sleeve, an access opening is defined between an overlap section extending between two attachment sections, the overlap section being formed of interleaving fabric ends suitably stiffened to provide a self-sealing functi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7251840 | Double reversible clothing Double reversible clothing is provided which includes four-sided double reversible pants, coveralls, a hooded sweatshirt, and a jacket. The garments are adorned in various identifying indicia, including sports team logos and camouflage patterns typically associated ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7146646 | Protective method using reversible garment for military or paramilitary firefighter Being reversible, a protective garment for a military or paramilitary firefighter or emergency worker has a shell of high visibility and a shell of low visibility. The shell of high visibility has portions that are reflective, fluorescent, or both, which the shell o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7111327 | Lightweight protective clothing and textile material incorporated therein A reversible raincoat or rain jacket is constructed from a plurality of panels of specialized fabric, which are joined by threaded seams and which alternatively present either a dress mode exterior or a protective mode exterior. The specialized fabric is composed of... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111328 | Hybrid ventilated garment A hybrid, ventilated garment is provided. Another aspect of the present invention employs a jacket having a body portion with sleeves and a torso, and a removable shell portion having sleeve and a torso segments. A further aspect of the present invention provides wi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7058988 | Apparatus for hanging articles of clothing Accessories and methods for directly suspending clothing from a mounted rod. An opening is provided in the clothing, the opening communicating with an edge of the product and having both an open configuration and a closed configuration, with a supporting material su... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6993940 | Tennis vest having knit-in ball pockets A tennis vest is formed from a circularly knit fabric tube having an extended turned welt at a bottom region of the vest to form outer and inner plies. The plies are sewn together along longitudinal lines to form two pockets. A pair of openings are knitted into the ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6938566 | Garment adapted for label attachment A garment adapted for attachment of a label subsequent to the substantially complete manufacture of the garment, where the garment comprises a joining seam between two garment components joined together to form a collar portion of the garment; and a strip which cove... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6550287 | Method of fabricating shirts from circularly knitted fabric and shirts produced thereby Shirts may be fabricated with a minimal number of sewn seams utilizing a first circularly knitted fabric tube forming a shirt body and a second circularly knitted fabric tube forming shoulder portions and sleeves by orienting the tubes essentially transve... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6148444 | Hemodialysis garment A garment 10 for use by patient's undergoing hemodialysis treatment. The garment includes a sweater member 20 having a pair of long sleeves 21, 22 provided with elongated sleeve openings 21', 22' which are controlled by pairs of cooperating hook and loop ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6128783 | Reversible sweater with opposing sides that optionally present either customary appearance or enhanced visibility A reversible sweater has a pair of contiguous configurations, one composed of a knit fabric and the other composed of a micro-fiber fabric. A wearer may select which side of the reversible sweater to wear outside and/or inside. If the knit side is worn ou... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5913408 | Upper body garment with incorporated fingerless gloves A garment is provided including a long sleeve garment with an opening formed in at least one of the sleeves for allowing the removable placement of a thumb therethrough.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5875653 | Knitted sweater of corresponding garment article, and a method of manufacturing it The invention is a garment and a process for making a garment. A garment in accordance with the invention includes a plurality of sewn together prewashed and shrunk knitted pieces each made from cotton yarn and each having a low residual shrinkage after p... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5787503 | Multi-layer sweater A double layer sweater which is knit simultaneously of two independent layers, one being an inner layer, and the other layer being an outer layer. Joining the two layers together is a polygonal-shaped quilting stitch pattern forming insulating pockets bet... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5784718 | Sweater having an inside pocket with a doll inside the pocket and method A sweater having an inside pocket with a doll therein. The sweater having hook and loop tabs to receive the doll in the pocket and to permit a child, on rolling up the front of the sweater, to remove the doll from the inside hidden pocket.... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5561860 | Reversible two-toned and/or two-textured shirt/sweater with extended sleeves An improved shirt/sweater which is reversible and comprised of two different sides, each having fabric of different color, pattern and/or texture. The sleeves are slightly tapered and extended in length over the conventional sleeve lengths so that when si... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5469581 | Sports garment having variable thickness sections A sports garment for warmth with freedom of movement having thin sections and thick sections where inner arm areas and inner torso areas defined by the area of contact between the arms and torso of the wearer during a swinging motion are formed out of a r... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5417091 | Reverse pattern turn cuff sock and method of forming same A casual/dress sport sock having a leg-covering portion and a foot-covering portion wherein the knitting stitch pattern of the sock is reversed in the medial area of the leg-covering portion. Thus, the casual/dress sport sock in its extended position comp... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5375261 | Dickies of a cylindrical knit with a pocket for a warmer pack A dickie of a generally cylindrical configuration comprising an upper extent formed with a neck opening of a cylindrical configuration for passage of a wearer's head and having a reduced diameter, the neck opening having a turned over upper end and a pair... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5308275 | Sleeve puppet A garment having an amusement device in the form of a puppet being integrally a part thereof and attached to the sleeves of the garment. The puppet is formed from the sleeve of a garment having two distinct layers of material which are attached at one end... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5007113 | Clothing, especially of the pullover type The subject matter of the invention is related to sewing technology. The pullover-type garment according to the invention is remarkable in that the front and/or the back part display, in a matching manner, one or more decorative elements (2) depicting ani... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4975985 | Novelty clothing The invention comprises garments bearing indicia in turn comprising components of VELCRO.RTM. such that when the indicia on two garments are brought into contact the garments adhere to each other. In a preferred embodiment the garments are provided in set... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4866790 | Tuckaway garment Low cost tuckaway garment which protects wearer against cold wind or rain and can be rolled or folded up when not needed and tucked into a pocket. The garmet is comprised entirely or essentially entirely of thin polyethylene sheet. A preferred embodiment ... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4783858 | Sweater having windbreaking characteristics A sweater having windbreaking characteristics especially usable by active sportsmen such as golfers who must concentrate on their golf swing, is disclosed. The sweater is a relatively thin pullover type which has an outer layer and a layer adjacent the we... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4780912 | Dickey A dickey is split along one side corresponding with a person's shoulder and the side of the person's neck. The seams along the split are provided with flexible and adjustable fasteners that adjustably close the seams. The split seams enable the dickey to ... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4601066 | Fashion/exercise garment The invention features a fashion/exercise garment for use by dancers, gymnasts and acrobats. The garment has built-in warming wraps disposed at extremity portions of the garment, such as the neck, wrists and ankles. The wraps comprise elongated bindings e... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4510626 | Flat plane seam garment and method of making A garment having body portions including front and back portions with a shoulder hole between those front and back portions. A generally tubular sleeve and shoulder portion has a sleeve and shoulder seam extending along its length with one end of the slee... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4473908 | Garment Garments covering the arms and upper torso made of a one-piece or multi-piece pattern in which the central axis of the sleeves are naturally positioned forward of the lateral plane of the body (rather than with the conventional fitted position placement i... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4369528 | Garment for maintaining body temperature and method of making same A method and garment is provided for maintaining the body temperature of a patient undergoing surgery in an operating room where the ambient temperature is normally below the normal body temperature. The garment is constructed of cut segments of stretchab... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4304007 | Jacket A jacket or similar garment is made from a single, main blank and two gusset blanks. The main blank has a neck opening and has a front panel, a back panel and two sleeve portions all extending from the neck opening. The gusset blanks are of square, diamon... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4111009 | Knitting method and article for a body panel A method of manufacturing a knitted garment to cover at least the upper body, for example a jacket, involves knitting two front panels to form the front of the garment, each of these panels being started from a non-run set-up, and incorporating each of th... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4087991 | Fashioned garment including body panels containing wales running horizontally and inclined to a finished edge A method of knitting a body panel for a garment, for example a jacket, in which the panel is provided with a non-run set-up along at least one edge to serve as an edging for the panel. The method involves knitting an edge portion for the panel comprising ... | 05/09/1978 |
