Cover sleeve to transform emergency personal help button into clothing accessory

Abstract

An elasticized styled cover sleeve covers and transforms any of a variety of personal emergency help buttons into a clothing accessory. Interchangeable differently styled cover sleeves enable matching the style of the transformed clothing accessory to a style of clothing worn by a user. An emergency button pressing portion of the cover sleeve positioned over a personal help button flexes to allow pressing the help button through the cover sleeve. Distinguishable decorative elements on the emergency button pressing portion reveal the location of the emergency button pressing portion and the personal help button beneath, when pressed, will summon help.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An adaptable cover sleeve to cover and camouflage any of a variety of emergency personal help button devices and transform each device into a familiar clothing accessory which is visually appealing and socially acceptable to encourage wearing the clothing accessory at all times for the safety and security of a wearer to enable the wearer to signal for emergency help whenever it is needed, the cover sleeve comprising:
 a decorative stretchable tubular cover sleeve configured to be adjustable, removable, and interchangeable when installed over any of a variety of emergency personal help button devices to cover and camouflage each personal help button device to transform the device into a familiar clothing accessory which is visually appealing and socially acceptable to be worn by a user at all times, and enabling the user to remove and interchange the cover sleeve with another cover sleeve to transform the personal help button device into another familiar clothing accessory having a different style to match a style of clothing of the user, to encourage wearing the transformed clothing accessory at all times so the personal help button is always available to the user to press for emergency help when needed;   the cover sleeve further comprises a button pressing portion of the cover sleeve configured to fit over a compressible emergency personal help button on the emergency personal help button device to enable the user wearing the transformed device to press the help button through the button pressing portion of the cover sleeve to summon emergency help;   thereby providing a universally adaptable transforming cover sleeve for transforming any of a variety of personal emergency help button devices into a familiar clothing accessory being visually appealing and socially acceptable and matching the style of clothing of the wearer to encourage wearing the clothing accessory at all times, for the safety and security of the wearer to enable the wearer to signal for emergency help whenever it is needed.   
     
     
         2 . The cover sleeve of  claim 1  wherein the cover sleeve comprises a styled tubular cover sleeve having an outer surface simulating a styled clothing accessory to match a clothing style worn by a user, the styled tubular cover sleeve fabricated of stretch material smaller than the outer perimeter of the emergency personal help button device so that the styled tubular cover sleeve stretches open to receive the emergency personal help button device inserted within the styled tubular cover sleeve and contracts closed over the emergency personal help button device so that the emergency personal help button device is concealed within the styled tubular cover sleeve transforming the emergency personal help button device into a visually appealing styled clothing accessory matching a clothing style of a user to be worn by a user at all times. 
     
     
         3 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve is fabricated of any of a variety of different materials taken from a list of different materials including SPANDEX, LYCRA, NEOPRENE, NYLON, ELASTANE, a stretchable blend of materials, rubber, stretchable cotton, woven fabric material combined with at least one concealed elasticized band at each end, stretchable silk, silk material combined with at least one concealed elasticized band at each end, stretchable velvet, velvet material combined with at least one concealed elasticized band at each end, stretchable satin, satin with at least one stretchable opening at each end. 
     
     
         4 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve comprises any of a variety of outer surfaces taken from the list of outer surfaces including a colored surface, a patterned surface, an indicia bearing surface, an image bearing surface, a textured surface, an imprinted surface, a combined surface, a natural fabric surface, a styled surface, a coated surface, a painted surface, a metallic surface, a rumpled surface, a padded surface, a character surface, an embroidered surface, an iron-on patch surface and a sewn-on patch surface. 
     
     
         5 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve further comprises at least one personal adornment attached to the outer surface taken from a list of personal adornments including at least one flat backed ornamental bead, at least one sequin, at least one ornamental button, at least one pendant, at least one locket, at least one piece of jewelry, at least one jewel, at least one gem stone, at least one charm, insignia, sparkles, metallic thread, embroidery, mesh, netting, lace, formed character features, iron-on patches, sewn-on patches, hanging dangles, jump rings, chains, beads, at least one decorative hanging chain, at least one jump ring, and at least one clear faceted stone. 
     
     
         6 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve is fabricated of a water tolerant quick drying material to enable washing the material and to enable wearing the emergency help button with the cover sleeve in a shower or bath and in inclement weather so that the emergency button may be worn at all times by the user. 
     
     
         7 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled clothing accessory further comprises a neck encircling element so that the styled clothing accessory comprises a styled necklace worn by a user. 
     
     
         8 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled clothing accessory further comprises a wrist encircling element so that the styled clothing accessory comprises a styled bracelet worn by a user. 
     
     
         9 . The cover sleeve of  claim 8  further comprising at least one additional tubular portion for covering the wrist encircling element to prevent direct contact of the wrist encircling element with the skin of the user. 
     
     
         10 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled clothing accessory further comprises a clip for attachment to an article of clothing or attachment to a clothing accessory so that the styled clothing accessory comprises a styled clip-on clothing accessory. 
     
     
         11 . The cover sleeve of  claim 2  wherein the styled clothing accessory further comprises a keychain and keychain fob covered by the cover sleeve so that the styled clothing accessory comprises a styled keychain fob. 
     
     
         12 . The cover sleeve of  claim 1  further comprising a distinguishable element positioned on the button pressing portion of the cover sleeve over the personal help button to indicate to a user where to push on the cover sleeve to activate the personal help button underneath the distinguishable element to signal for emergency help, the distinguishable element having a size and shape equal to or smaller than the personal help button to insure that the user will push only the personal help button and not push any other part of a casing surrounding the personal help button. 
     
     
         13 . The cover sleeve of  claim 12  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one visible element taken from the list of visible elements including at least one printed indicia, at least one embroidered indicia, at least one attachment, at least one pattern variation, at least one color variation, at least one shape variation, at least one texture variation. 
     
     
         14 . The cover sleeve of  claim 12  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one tactile element taken from the list of tactile elements including at least one tactile fabric variation, at least one texture variation, at least one added tactile material, at least one tactile decorative element, at least one tactile functional element. 
     
     
         15 . The cover sleeve of  claim 12  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one audible element taken from the list of audible elements including at least one sound producing finger heat sensing element, at least one sound producing finger sensing light sensor element, at least one sound producing finger detecting proximity sensing element to indicate audibly when in the dark or when a blind user's finger is adjacent to the button pressing portion of the cover sleeve. 
     
     
         16 . The cover sleeve of  claim 12  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one combination element taken from the list of combination elements including at least one visible element combined with at least one audible element, at least one visible element combined with at least one tactile element, at least one audible element combined with at least one tactile element, and at least one visible element combined with at least one audible element and at least one tactile element. 
     
     
         17 . The cover sleeve of  claim 16  wherein the at least one visible element combined with at least one tactile element comprises at least one personal adornment, attached to the button pressing portion on an outer surface of the tubular cover sleeve, taken from a list of personal adornments including at least one flat ornamental bead, at least one sequin, at least one ornamental button, at least one pendant, at least one locket, at least one charm, raised insignia, sparkles, metallic thread, embroidery, mesh, netting, lace, the at least one decorative element being smaller than the emergency button to permit ease of pressing the emergency button without contacting a casing holding the button. 
     
     
         18 . The cover sleeve of  claim 12  further comprising means for aligning the cover sleeve with the emergency personal help button device so that the button pressing portion of the cover sleeve aligns with the emergency personal help button beneath the cover sleeve. 
     
     
         19 . The cover sleeve of  claim 1  wherein the emergency personal help button device comprises at least two emergency personal help buttons pressed simultaneously and the cover sleeve comprises at least two button pressing portions each positioned over one of the at least two emergency personal help buttons. 
     
     
         20 . The cover sleeve of  claim 1  further comprising means for signaling a user that the emergency help button has been pressed properly through the cover sleeve to send a signal for emergency help.