Heated And Steaming Seat Belt Cover

Submitted 8 years ago

My invention is a seatbelt cover that will emit heat and steam. A patent application was filed through the law firm of Petock & Petock, LLC.
The future seems like a pretty exciting place with the self-driving cars. More and more time will be spent in our cars, and a need for comfort and functionality will be rising. My invention has two aspects: Heated Seat Belt Cover and/or Steaming Seat Belt Cover. Both products can be marketed as an aftermarket product or as an option to purchase with any automobile.
Heated Seat Belt Cover Benefits:
• The Heated Seat Belt Cover provides varying degrees of warmth depending on the person's needs when you first start the car. Enjoy comforting warmth delivered quickly to your body even on the coldest of days.
• Using the Heated Seat Belt Cover can provide a safe alternative to the car's heater. Warm air from your car's heater can cause drowsiness by keeping your face too warm and drying your eyes.
• Muscle pain is relieved with heat. Heat aids in the relaxation of tightened muscles, stimulates blood flow to the affected area and can promote healing.

• Women will also have the added benefit of easing the pain of their menstrual cramps when the heat is emitted from the seat belt cover. Research has found that heat often lessens pain over time.
Facts:
• Seamless installation and no change to the aesthetics of the vehicle.
• Fits standard and automatic seat belts.
• Suitable for the whole family; adjustable for all individuals.
• Safe, durable heating elements.
• Temperature controls.
• Safety-shut off.
• Low vehicle power consumption.
• Allows seat belt to operate normally.

Steaming Seat Belt Cover
Based on my research, there is a significant demand for a seat belt cover that will not only emit heat, but that will also emit steam.
I have included anecdotes regarding wrinkling of clothes while driving. The comments provide real life examples as to why I know that my product would be marketable. Please find them below. Although there are several products currently out in the market that help with wrinkled clothes associated with driving, none are based on steam; they use spacers or seat belt clips.
Briefly stated, my invention comprises a seat belt cover that emits steam for a desired amount of time to prevent wrinkles of clothes while driving.
I am confident that my innovation would be an asset and revenue producer to the car industry's product line or aftermarket. Please contact me at 516-209-7624, or [email protected] to share my exciting idea with you.
I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Ladan Mirzai

From the internet . . .
Any tips on how to keep you shirt from getting wrinkled while wearing a seat belt? My biggest pet peeve is wrinkled clothes....by the time I get to work my dress shirt is all wrinkled by my belt from the seatbelt in my car. How do you guys help prevent this? Will light starch help? I'm already wearing those "wrinkle proof" treated cotton poly blend shirts. disgust________________________________________meltdown75 07-19-2005, 10:29 AM
hmm. sometimes i will lean forward and stretch the back of my shirt, but generally i don't worry about stuff like that. you gotta figure everyone is getting some wrinkles at some point in the day, no?
________________________________________Bmacd 07-19-2005, 10:36 AM
if you find a solution cross6, lemme know b/c i've been searching for the last two years :)________________________________________Jeff7181 07-19-2005, 10:37 AM
Take it off on the way to work.________________________________________jds2006 07-19-2005, 10:42 AM
Buy a large paperweight or a square stone thing from Home Depot, and then put it on your shirt so it can't get wrinkled.________________________________________Robphelan 07-19-2005, 10:45 AM
i've struggled with this for some years.. i switched to a thicker material and that helped a bit, but not great.

i've found nothing better than a non-iron shirt. you can literally wear these as soon as you take them out of the dryer.
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Platypus 07-19-2005, 10:46 AM
This sucks, I feel your pain. I have taken to just putting my shirt on when I get to work.I take it one step further and don't even bother to put the shirt on when I get to work. It saves me having to wash and iron them too!________________________________________bonkers325 07-19-2005, 11:31 AM
bring an iron to work________________________________________jakedeez 07-19-2005, 11:58 AM
yeah, just take it off until you get there________________________________________Spooner 07-19-2005, 12:02 PM
So you guys that "take it off before you get there" are in the parking lot putting on your shirt before going into the office? seems suspect________________________________________Jzero 07-19-2005, 12:04 PM
I work at a high brow financial place. I think they would frown on me getting dressed in the parking lot lol.
It's not exactly "getting dressed." You wear an undershirt don't you? If you don't, you should. You can easily put your shirt on in the car. It's really not that weird.________________________________________Cmdavid 07-19-2005, 12:06 PM
put it on a hanger until you get to work.. then put it on..________________________________________Compnovice 07-19-2005, 12:19 PM
Options:
1) Walk to work
2) If you want to drive Don't wear a seat belt
3) If you want to wear a seatbelt dont wear the shirt
4) If you want to wear the seat belt and the shirt wear a jacket so the shirt does not get wrinkled.
5) If you still hate it, CHANGE you job (become a UPS driver)________________________________________SouthPaW1227 07-19-2005, 12:33 PM
I always wear an undershirt, so it wouldn't be weird. Hanes 5-pack white tees for $5.99! :D________________________________________Gigapet 07-19-2005, 12:34 PM
starch________________________________________Heisenberg 07-19-2005, 12:36 PM
Buy 2 identical shirts, leave one at the office beforehand, wear the other one in the car, and then switch when you get there. ;)________________________________________ May 31st, 2008 Car seatbelt creasing shirt
I have quite a few CT Sea Island 140 shirts but I've noticed as soon as I arrive at work my car seat belt has creased the shirt. Anyone else have this problem? At the moment I'm driving without a seatbelt! :confused: ________________________________________March 3rd, 2009, 15:17
I also have this problem so I know where you're coming from. The only problem is there's nothing you can do about it other than wear some shirts that won't crease as easily?? I also find myself adjusting the seat belt a fair bit when I'm driving so that my shirt remains flat to my chest.

It's all irrelvant anyway when you go and spill your first cup of coffee down the front ________________________________________March 3rd, 2009, 16:16
Blueboy1938
Driving without a seat belt in order to save yourself the horror of a few shirt creases at the risk of being cited, not to mention dying, is dedication to fashion beyond the call of duty. It's also pretty foolish. Just put your coat on when you walk around, and no one will notice.

Of course, if this is a "Princess and the Pea" problem, and the creases actually irritate your skin, you might keep a steamer at work, take that to the men's facility, doff the shirt, steam out the creases, and have no further worries:icon_smile_wink:
"Blessed is he who has nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it." Anon. (Proverb)________________________________________March 3rd, 2009, 18:04
Crownship In your search engine type fur seatbelt cover
Amazon.com has several choices made of wool.
Having an increased area that the seatbelt rest on your shirt may prevent some wrinkling.
Just don't go without a seatbelt. ________________________________________March 3rd, 2009, 19:52
Super Member
I suggest walking to work. Or perhaps something more realistic, wear a suit or sport coat so the seatbelt isn't right on the shirt. ________________________________________March 4th, 2009, 01:25