Laminated brassiere wing

• US 20060094335A1
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fildan Accessories Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fildan Accessories Corporation
• Inventors: Fildan, Gerhard, Wanzenbock, Karl
• Granted Patent: US 7,431,631 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 450/58
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/00 Brassieres
• CPC Class Codes: A41F 1/006 Brassiére fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A41F 15/002 separable or adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 17/0029 Press-button fasteners made of plastics

Abstract

A brassiere is made by attaching prefabricated wings provided with back closures to front parts of the brassiere. The wings are laminated with at least two layers of fabric and may have cushion layers between the fabric layers, without stitched seams.

Claims

1. A brassiere comprising a pair of brassiere cups forming a front of the brassiere and a pair of wings connected to said cups and forming a back of said brassiere, an inwardly lying one of said wings being provided adjacent a free end thereof with at least one first fastener member, the other of said wings lying outwardly of said one of said wings and having at least one second fastener member engageable with said first fastener member adjacent a free end of said other wing, and a bar formed on said second fastener member extending longitudinally of said other wing and limiting lifting of said other wing away from said first wing when said wings are connected together by said fastener members across a back of a wearer.

2. The brassiere defined in claim 1 wherein said first fastener member is a circular press-button eye-type female fastener member and said other fastener member has a circular press-button side facing said first wing and a projection engageable in said female fastener member with a hook-in-eye action, said bar being provided on an opposite side of said other wing from said circular press-button side.

3. The brassiere defined in claim 2 wherein said first fastener member is one of a row of spaced-apart first fastener members provided on said one of said wings.

4. The brassiere defined in claim 3 wherein said first fastener member is one of two parallel rows of spaced-apart first fastener members provided on said one of said wings, said other of said wings having two of said second members each engageable with a first member of a respective row.

5. The brassiere defined in claim 1 wherein each of said wings is provided with a D-ring engageable with a respective shoulder strap.

6. The brassiere defined in claim 5 wherein each D-ring is openable to receive the respective strap.

7. The brassiere defined in claim 6 wherein each D-ring includes a respective loop having an end provided with a formation detachably engageable with another formation to lock the D-ring closed.

8. The brassiere defined in claim 7 wherein said formation on the end of each loop is a male formation and is engageable in a female formation.

9. The brassiere defined in claim 8 wherein each D-ring is injection molded of synthetic resin in one piece.

10. The brassiere defined in claim 1 wherein said wings are fabricated with the respective fastener member and are then attached to said front of said brassiere.

11. A D-ring fastener for engagement with a strap and injection molded in one piece with a pair of shields forming a base and adapted to straddle a fabric to which the fastener is to be attached, and a D-ring on said base, openable to receive a respective strap.

12. A D-ring fastener defined in claim 11 wherein each D-ring includes a respective loop having one end fixed to said base and another end provided with a formation detachably engageable with another formation on said base to lock the D-ring closed.

13. A D-ring fastener defined in claim 12 wherein said formation on said loop is a male formation and is engageable in a female formation on said base.

14. A D-ring fastener defined in claim 13 wherein the D-ring fastener is formed from polyoxymethylene.