Emergency help button cover having personal use accessory

Abstract

An elasticized styled cover sleeve, having an attached personal use accessory, 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 . A universally adaptable styled combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory adapted to removably and interchangeably cover and camouflage any of a variety of emergency personal help button devices and adapted to transform each device into a styled clothing accessory which is visually appealing and socially acceptable to encourage wearing the styled clothing accessory at all times, so that the personal use accessory is available to use for daily personal use functions and the emergency help button is available to signal for emergency help whenever it is needed, the cover sleeve and personal use accessory comprising, in combination:
 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 the device and to transform the device into a styled clothing accessory which is visually appealing and socially acceptable, the cover sleeve adapted to enable the user to remove and interchange the cover sleeve with another cover sleeve to transform the personal help button device into another styled 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 an emergency personal help button is always available to press for emergency help when needed, the tubular cover sleeve fabricated of a highly stretchable thin material in the shape of a tube with a stretchable opening on at least one end adapted to receive any of a variety of emergency personal help button devices through the stretchable opening, the tubular cover sleeve stretchable opening adapted to contract closed over the emergency personal help button device after receiving the emergency help button device therethrough, so that the emergency personal help button device is concealed within the styled tubular cover sleeve, the tubular cover sleeve fabricated of a material sufficiently thin and flexible to allow a compressible emergency personal help button of the personal help button device underneath the tubular cover sleeve to be distinguishable by touch and to be compressible through the tubular cover sleeve so that the cover sleeve is adapted for pressing the emergency help button through the thin and flexible material of the cover sleeve;   the tubular cover sleeve further comprising a user distinguishable button pressing portion of the cover sleeve configured to be positioned over a compressible emergency personal help button on the emergency personal help button device within the tubular cover sleeve to further assist a user wearing the transformed device to press the compressible emergency personal help button through the button pressing portion of the cover sleeve to summon emergency help;   at least one personal use accessory attached to the tubular cover sleeve, the personal use accessory matching the material and visual appearance of the tubular cover sleeve to combine with the tubular cover sleeve to transform the personal emergency help button device into a styled clothing accessory adapted to be worn by a user, the personal use accessory adapted to be available to use for daily personal use functions;   thereby providing a universally adaptable combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory adapted to removably and interchangeably cover and camouflage any of a variety of emergency personal help button devices and adapted to transform each device into a styled clothing accessory which is visually appealing and socially acceptable to encourage wearing the styled clothing accessory at all times, so that the personal use accessory is available to use for daily personal use functions and the emergency help button is available to signal for emergency help whenever it is needed.   
     
     
         2 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 1  wherein the at least one personal use accessory comprises at least one of a variety of different personal use accessories taken from the list of personal use accessories consisting of a pocket attached to the cover sleeve for storing necessary daily use items carried by a user, a pouch hanging downwardly from the cover sleeve for storing necessary daily use items carried by a user, a necklace attached to a top of the cover sleeve for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device around a neck of a user, a jump ring attached to the cover sleeve for attaching a necklace to the jump ring for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device around a neck of a user, a jump ring attached to the cover sleeve for attaching a lanyard to the jump ring for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device around a neck of a user, a bracelet attached to the cover sleeve for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device to a wrist of a user, a decorative wrist band attached to the cover sleeve for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device to a wrist of a user, a loop bracket attached to a cover sleeve for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device to a belt worn by a user, a loop bracket attached to a cover sleeve for receiving a keychain attached to the loop bracket so that the styled cover sleeve and personal use accessory comprises a styled keychain fob, a clip secured to the cover sleeve for attaching the combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory and covered emergency help button device to an article of clothing or attachment to a clothing accessory so that the styled clothing accessory and personal use accessory comprises a styled clip-on clothing accessory. 
     
     
         3 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory 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 consisting of SPANDEX, 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 combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve and personal use accessory further comprises any of a variety of outer surfaces taken from the list of outer surfaces consisting of 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 combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory 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 consisting of 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 combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 2  wherein the styled tubular cover sleeve and personal use accessory are 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 combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory 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. 
     
     
         8 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 7  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one visible element taken from the list of visible elements consisting of 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. 
     
     
         9 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 7  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one tactile element taken from the list of tactile elements consisting of 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. 
     
     
         10 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 7  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one audible element taken from the list of audible elements consisting of 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. 
     
     
         11 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 7  wherein the distinguishable element comprises at least one combination element taken from the list of combination elements consisting of 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. 
     
     
         12 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 11  wherein the distinguishable 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 consisting of 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. 
     
     
         13 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 7  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. 
     
     
         14 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory 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. 
     
     
         15 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory 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. 
     
     
         16 . The combination cover sleeve and personal use accessory of  claim 1  wherein a pouch-type of cover sleeve with a single top opening covers a mobile device which is a medical alert device that use GPS & cellular technology.