I need to somehow draw the line, which of what I have done, I am going to patent, and which is more convenient to leave free. I think the open standard might be the idea of the most protective suit. Moreover, there is too much obvious in this idea to accurately formulate a claim. I have no particular desire to do this. There may be a certain pitfall here. Clothing turns into a dwelling — an obvious thing from time immemorial. And the older the more obvious. What have I come up with here new, if you take the idea itself? This is probably the question that will be asked repeatedly. Perhaps I only proposed the idea of tightness and, accordingly, preserving the sterility of the internal environment. This is, however, the main purpose of protective clothing. Another main goal is to make the transformation quick and easy. Now, for more than six months of the epidemic, medical personnel are still placed in difficult working conditions. Spending six hours in a full protective kit is the norm and is always difficult to bear. As a rule, a person is forced to get rid of protective clothing somewhere in the middle of this period. It is a long, difficult and dangerous process. The transformation of protective clothing into a room should enable personnel to carry out basic hygiene procedures without leaving the protective environment.
The transformation should not be carried out manually, but by some mechanism hidden inside the fabric of the entire protective suit. In the usual everyday case, a person can of course turn outerwear into some kind of a tent for rest. But this is done manually. In what I suggest, all transformation is a single working mechanism. Human actions here should be absolutely minimal. In modern clothes, all equipment is arranged in such a way that you could undress and dress using only your own hands. This has not always been the case. In the era of servants and valets, the style of clothing was different, and this was not only to maintain status. They wore raincoats in old paintings, didn’t they? Did the Musketeers wear cloaks? Earls, dukes and the simply privileged class? It seems to me that if we delve deeply into the history of the costume, we will see that there is nothing fundamentally new in what we are now inventing. Of course, the owner himself can wrap himself in the cloak with the famous theatrical gesture, but it seems that the servants were more involved in this. But as in other cases of history and progress, here too there were obviously attempts to replace the servants with a hidden mechanism. I have no feeling that I am doing something fundamentally new here.
As for bracelets for medical gloves, here, on the contrary, I am convinced that there was no such idea before me. There could not be such bracelets, first of all, because they are full-fledged devices from the very beginning. Here the very approach to solving the problem plays a role. If the transformation of the suit is a traditional automation, where one external force changes the entire structure, then the bracelet is a separate module. In traditional automation, the mechanics are triggered entirely and all at once. It is always one level. Each part has only one or two degrees of freedom here. This is a drawback associated mainly with the dependence of the entire mechanism on any detail. If something breaks or gets stuck, the whole mechanism stops. The reason why I decided to leave linear automation in the design of the transformable suit for now is that this is a one-time kit, which obviously should be as cheap as possible, and whose service life is obviously clearly limited. Where a modular design is used, there are several levels. It is a parallel and competitive system. The mechanism does not break, but simply starts to work slower and not quite correctly. But this can only work with electronics. I can imagine that in the old days some master of such a Coppelius created an amazing bracelet on some kind of complex springs and suction cups, but such a mechanism would hardly have worked for a long time and did not break after several times.
https://medium.com/@SeregeSokolov/uspto-announces-covid-19-pilot-program-ab99fb6cb4ff
