Clothing for maintaining a baby's normal body temperature

Abstract

A sack for a baby is provided. The sack may be worn by a baby while sleeping to ensure that the baby is kept warm during cold nights. The sack also provides additional protection to the baby from overheating via a heat vent which allows hot air from within the sack to pass therethrough as the inside temperature of the sack rises to an unacceptable level. The heat vent may be covered with a mesh which allows hot air to pass therethrough but prevents a baby's legs and feet from passing therethrough.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Application No. 10 / 701,050, filed Nov. 4, 2003, the contents of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference.STATEMENT RE: FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH / DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not Applicable BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The present invention relates generally to baby clothing, and more particularly to baby clothing for maintaining a baby's normal body temperature within the baby clothing while the baby is sleeping. [0004] Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is an unexplained sudden death of a healthy baby. SIDS occurs in babies typically between the ages of one (1) month to one (1) year. It occurs more prevalently in babies between the ages of one (1) month and four (4) months. Further, most deaths occur during the fall, winter and early spring. Despite scientific research into the cause of SIDS, scientists are still unsure of its exact cause. However, certain precautions may h...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a sack which may comprise a cloth body. The cloth body may have three openings, namely, a left arm aperture, right arm aperture and a neck aperture. These apertures may be sized and configured to receive the left arm, right arm and neck of a baby, respectively. Further, the cloth body may have a pouch configuration. Accordingly, the baby when wearing the sack may have their torso and legs contained within the sack with their arms and head outside of the sack. The sack of the present invention may also have a heat vent or venting aperture formed at a lower portion of the cloth body. The vent may be operative to pass hot air from an inside to an outside of the cloth body when the temperature within the cloth body is raised to an unacceptable level for the baby. The vent may be sized and configured such that a sufficient amount of heat is expended from within the sack such that the baby wearing the sack does not overheat.

[0008] However, if the vent is too large then the baby's feet may protrude through the vent to expose the baby's feet to the environment which may be too cold for the baby. As such, the vent may further be covered with a mesh having a plurality of apertures. The plurality of apertures may prevent the baby's feet from protruding through the vent yet allow hot air from within the sack to be expelled therefrom to cool down the inside temperature thereof. Accordingly, parents and caretakers may rest assured that the baby wearing the sack is warmed by the sack and hot air within the sack is expelled through the vent to maintain the sack's inside temperature at an acceptable level.

Problems solved by technology

However, if the vent is too large then the baby's feet may protrude through the vent to expose the baby's feet to the environment which may be too cold for the baby.

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