Adjustable Pet Garment With Discrete Elasticized Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pet garments often fail to provide a comfortable, heat-efficient, and proper fit for animals due to lack of adjustability, elasticity, and complex closure systems, leading to discomfort and difficulty in fitting, especially for pets with varied shapes or extreme sizes.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable animal garment with discrete elasticized areas and a fastening system, such as a hook and loop fastener, that allows for transverse stretching and easy adjustment, ensuring a snug yet flexible fit, and includes a stretchable aperture for optimal movement and comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a garment is made with fixed size and no elasticized areas, then manufacturing is simple, but it cannot accommodate varied pet shapes and sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The garment incorporates elasticized areas that dynamically adjust to different body shapes and sizes, allowing the fixed-size garment to adapt to various pets through elastic deformation rather than requiring multiple size variants
Solution Approach 2:
The garment uses elasticized areas with varying degrees of stretchability to change the physical parameters of the garment body, enabling a single garment to fit multiple size ranges by utilizing different levels of elastic expansion
2Manufacturing precision
If a garment uses a complex closure system to achieve proper fit, then fit accuracy improves, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the complex closure system from the garment design and replaces it with elasticized areas that self-adjust, eliminating the need for complicated fastening mechanisms while maintaining fit accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The elasticized areas perform the fitting function automatically through their inherent elastic properties, allowing the garment to self-adjust to the pet's body without requiring complex manual adjustment mechanisms
3Ease of operation
If a garment is made without elasticized areas, then the garment structure is simple, but comfort and mobility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The garment applies elasticized areas selectively at specific locations (chest, back, neck) rather than throughout the entire garment, providing comfort and mobility where needed while maintaining simple structure in other areas
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The adjustable garment provides a comfortable, heat-efficient, and easy-to-use fit for pets, accommodating various shapes and sizes, enhancing their comfort and mobility while simplifying the fitting process for pet owners.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of discrete elasticized areas formed along a length of at least the chest portion or the back portion and configured to render said at least chest portion or back portion stretchable substantially transversely to the length of the chest portion or the back portion between an extended position and a rest position
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AI summary
An adjustable animal garment, the garment comprising a tubular body defining a front opening, a rear opening, a chest portion and a back portion. The garment further comprises a plurality of discrete elasticized areas formed along a length of at least the chest portion or the back portion and configured to render said at least chest portion or back portion stretchable substantially transversely to the length of the chest portion or the back portion between an extended position and a rest position; and a fastening system connectable to the chest portion or the back portion, said fastening system being adjustably closing an opening along the length of the chest portion or the back portion.