Warming garment

Abstract

The present invention provides a garment means to be worn about the torso, legs and feet of a user to provide warmth when needed or as desired, and which may be secured about the waste or chest portion of the user by a securing means.

1 . A garment means effective to be fitted about a person comprising an elongated shell having leg, and optionally foot, enclosure portions, and an opening opposite to said leg enclosure portions, and which is adapted to be fitted about the waist or chest portion of a user, and a securing means attached to a portion of said opening which is effective to provide a secured fitting arrangement of the garment to the user.  
   
   
       2 . The garment means of  claim 1  wherein said securing means is an elastomeric band.  
   
   
       3 . The garment means of  claim 1  wherein said securing means is a drawstring.  
   
   
       4 . The garment means of  claim 1  wherein said securing means comprises a hook and clasp fastening means.  
   
   
       5 . The garment means of  claim 1  wherein said securing means comprises a combination of two or more of an elastomeric band, a drawstring and a hook and clasp fastening means to provide for a custom fit to the user.  
   
   
       6 . The garment means of  claim 1  wherein said optional foot enclosure portions are detachably connected to the bottoms of the leg enclosure portions by zipper means or hook and clasp fastening means.  
   
   
       7 . The garment means of  claim 1  which is detachably connected to a blanket means by a zipper means or hook and clasp fastening means, and the resulting combination effective for envelopment of all or a portion of a user, including the head and/or upper torso region of said user.  
   
   
       8 . The garment means of  claim 1  which is of a size effective to fit over the outdoor clothes or indoor clothes of a user thereof.  
   
   
       9 . A method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 1 .  
   
   
       10 . A method for the fabrication off the garment means of  claim 2 .  
   
   
       11 . A method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 3 .  
   
   
       12 . A method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 4 .  
   
   
       13 . A method for the fabrication off the garment means of  claim 5 .  
   
   
       14 . And method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 6 .  
   
   
       15 . A method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 7 .  
   
   
       16 . A method for the fabrication of the garment means of  claim 8 .  
   
   
       17 . A method of conducting business selected from manufacturing, designing, using, marketing, selling, licensing, leasing, forming and/or operating a business entity, generating business goodwill and generating trademark rights comprising the use of the garment means of  claim 1.