Title: Convertible comfort or garment

Abstract: There is disclosed a comforter of conventional shape and size, provided along its edges with a particular arrangement of male and female fastening elements, whereby said comforter may be used in a conventional manner on a bed, and yet by folding and securing said fastening elements as taught hereinafter, the comforter may be converted into a bag-like structure to be worn as a garment, covering the body of the user while leaving the head and hands exposed.

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Inventors: Whiting, Richard T. (Cincinnati, OH, US)

Application Number: 892214
Filing Date: 1978-03-31
Publication_date: 1979-03-06
Assignee: Whiting Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH)
Primary Class(es): 5/482 2/69.5
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US Patent Ref:

D249196	Sep, 1978	Wrightson	D2/25.
536383	Mar, 1895	Huyck	2/69.
906551	Dec, 1908	Newman	2/69.
1265539	May, 1918	Slater	2/69.
1454541	May, 1923	Falvey	2/69.
1509296	Sep, 1924	Hopewell	2/88.
2442105	May, 1948	Vacheron	2/69.
2656540	Oct, 1953	Stephenson	2/69.
2967306	Jan, 1961	Fabanich	2/94.
3858256	Jan, 1975	Beer	5/334.

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Primary Examiner: Stein, Mervin
Assistant Examiner: Calvert, Andrew M.
Attorney: Melville, Strasser, Foster & Hoffman