Jamie Lee Curtis: Diaper inventor

Did you know that Jamie Lee Curtis has patented a disposable diaper?  In 1988, patent #4,753,647 was issued for her design of "a disposable infant garment which takes the form of a diaper including,on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture-proof pocket whichcontains one or more clean-up wipers."  Sounds pretty cool, actually.  I wonder why it’s never been marketed.

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Comments

that is a great idea for a diaper! i’d definitely buy those if they came out.

- ashley on January 4th, 2007

Sounds like those always pads that are on the market, with the clean up wipe. If those sell, why wouldn’t these?

- candace on January 4th, 2007

Brilliant! Who wouldn’t want to just grab a diaper when it comes time to change your little one rather than grab a diaper and a box of wipes! With a 2 year old and a 1 year old, I’d buy those whatever the price just for the convenience.

- JosieK on January 4th, 2007

Sounds like Gdiapers to me

- Ooey on January 4th, 2007

ohh.. the wipe in the dipe idea is brilliant! I hate trying to hunt down a wipe everytime I need to change my little one at the house.

- Suzanne on January 5th, 2007

Years ago I was watching the talk show “Donohue” (yep, showing my age here!) and the episode was about child inventors. On the program was a 5 year old girl with this same product. She even demonstrated her working product on a doll. It was very cute to watch. So, I don’t think this is an original idea of Jamie Lee Curtis. Maybe she saw the show and brought the idea off the girl?

- Heavenly_hibiscus on January 5th, 2007

You can download her invention for free in PDF format from http://www.patentretriever.com

- John Segal on June 7th, 2008