Easy donning garment

摘要

A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.

主权项

1. A protective garment comprising:
an interior surface; an exterior surface; a body portion; a right leg and a left leg, where both legs extend from the body portion; and a right sleeve and a left sleeve, where both sleeves extend from the body portion; where each leg is constructed of a seamless sheet of material that forms a single seam along the leg, each leg comprising an interior surface, an exterior surface, an opening distal to the body portion, an upper segment proximate the body portion, a lower segment distal to the body portion, and an extended total leg length measured from the body portion to the distal opening, where each sleeve is constructed of a seamless sheet of material that forms a single seam along an underside of the sleeve, each sleeve comprising an interior surface, an exterior surface, an opening distal to the body portion, an upper segment proximate the body portion, a lower segment distal to the body portion, and an extended total sleeve length measured from the body portion to the distal opening, and at least one sleeve fastener limited to the interior surface of each sleeve between the body portion and a point 50 percent of the sleeve length distal from the body portion that releasably affixes the interior surface of at least a portion of the upper segment of each sleeve to the interior surface at least a portion of the lower segment of each sleeve; at least one leg fastener limited to the interior surface of each leg between the body portion and a point 50 percent of the extended total leg length distal from the body portion that releasably affixes the interior surface of at least a portion of the upper segment of each leg to at least a portion of the lower segment of each leg; and wherein, when the upper segment is coupled to the lower segment of each sleeve by the sleeve's respective sleeve fastener and when the upper segment is coupled to the lower segment of each leg by the leg's respective leg fastener, the garment comprises a donning configuration, the donning configuration comprising at least one fold releasably affixed to the interior surface of the seamless sheet of material of the legs and sleeves, respectively, and wherein, when the upper segment and lower segment of each sleeve and each leg are uncoupled, the sleeves and legs assume a total extended sleeve length and a total extended leg length, where the upper segments and the lower segments of each sleeve and leg are no longer coupled together along the interior surface.