Apparel inventions 01/08

20080022429 - Disposable dribble bib: A disposable dribble bib for babies comprises a shaped panel of non-woven cotton material. The bib has an outer face and an inner face each of which has a hairy surface formed by cotton fibres which when the bib is placed on a garment will attach and hold the bib... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080022430 - Hand warmer device known as\"z\" muff: A special device for use as an auxiliary accessory to keep ones hands warm and safe from the elements. The device has many variations in size, color and materials anticipated with only minor physical changes for manufacturing. In a cold or a moderating environment with wide temperature variations and exposure... Agent: Ritchison Law Offices, PC John D. Ritchison

20080022434 - Nursing tank top: A nursing garment includes a shoulder strap having front and back ends. An elastic chest band has front and back sections. An inner bra layer is fixedly attached at its top to the shoulder strap and at its bottom to the front end of the chest band. The inner bra... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080022437 - Shading headgear: A shading headgear is disclosed, which comprises a spherical headgear body which has a wearing hole at a rear lower side; an engaging band which is provided at a center portion of a rear side of the headgear body for elastically supporting a user's head; a plurality of interval maintaining... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080022440 - Ski sock: A sock has a leg portion, a heel portion, an instep portion, a toe portion, and a pair of lateral metatarsal joint portions where the instep portion meets the toe portion. The sock has a first material thickness at the instep portion and the toe portion, and a second material... Agent: Edward M. Weisz, Esq. Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080016600 - Protective eyewear: A protective eyewear apparatus including a base substantially oval in shape, an upper bar connected to the base, a lower bar connected to the base, and a main support bar connected to the upper bar and the lower bar. Another embodiment includes two eyepieces attached by a flexible bridge member,... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080016603 - Odor absorbing system and method: An odor absorbing system includes a head covering article of clothing configured to be worn by a person. The head covering article of clothing includes a base layer comprising a cap section configured to substantially cover a head of the person wearing the article of clothing. An odor absorbing insert... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080016604 - Method of manufacturing a reversible belt: The present invention is a method of manufacturing a fully-reversible belt generally comprising the following steps: selecting a face material and contrast material, cutting an equal length of face material and contrast material, cutting an additional piece of contrast material, sewing material pieces together to form a strap, sewing an... Agent: Royal W. Craig Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver

20080016605 - Jock support short: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a jock support short including a short member and an integrally-formed jock support member. The integral jock support member includes a pocket portion attached to a front portion of the short, which is configured to house a protective groin cup. At least two... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080010717 - Medical support assembly garment: A medical support assembly garment dimensionally adapted to receive a torso of a patient. The garment includes a vest portion including a back portion, and a left front portion and a right front portion each extending from opposite ends of the back portion and each comprising an inner surface facing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080010721 - Removable, reusable, washable liner for use with various types of head gear: A lining for use under head gear—such as baseball hats, top hats, helmets, cowboy hats, hard hats, beanies, stocking caps, etc.—comprised of two layers, one specifically for comfort, in both softness and breathability, and a second specifically for the filtering of salt, dirt, oils, particulate matter and other undesirable constituents... Agent: Doug Campbell

20080010724 - Weighted belt: A weighted belt is provided. The weighted belt comprises a belt body that defines a body pocket; a plurality of weights disposed within the body pocket; a first cinching end that extends from an end of the belt body; and, a second cinching end that extends from an opposite end... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080010725 - Girdle underwear for men: A girdle underwear for men comprises a first fabric piece defined with leg openings and having a waist band and a first elastic fiber line which is stitched to center portions of a front part, a rear part and a bottom part of the first fabric piece; a second fabric... Agent: Hyun Jong Park

20080010728 - Pair of goggles: A pair of goggles including two housing units and two eye protecting units, each of the latter being secured within one of the former units that incorporate a flexible, convex, lateral extension for adjusting to a temple area. Each eye protecting units incorporates a cup-shaped structure and is provided, at... Agent: Frederick Kaufman

20080010730 - Personal load-bearing system: The invention provides a personally-worn load-bearing system for carrying weights adjacent to the back and front of a user, comprising front and back load-supporting panels wherein the front and back panels are secured to each other via interconnecting shoulder straps to form a garment, characterized in that the system further... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080005825 - Garments with removable attachments: Disclosed herein are garments with removable attachments. The removable attachments can be attached to the garment and comprise at least a front and a back panel that can be connected at a location below the shoulders of a user wearing the garment.... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080005826 - Hand-retaining device, in particular glove, for fastening on a pole grip: Disclosed is a hand-retaining device (25), such as a hand strap that can be fastened to the hand or a glove, comprising a movable loop (33) between the thumb and the index which is used for fixing the hand-retaining device to a hook-type mechanism (14) of a pole grip. Such... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080005827 - Water-soluble glove liners and composite gloves containing the same: Water-soluble glove liners and methods of making, using and disposing of the water-soluble glove liners are disclosed.... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC