SHEATHING KNITTED ELASTIC LOWER BODY GARMENT

• US 20150296894A1
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DBI Operations Europe SAS
• Original Assignee: Dbapparel Operations
• Inventors: TURLAN-VAN DER HOEVEN, Manon, HOUILLON, Sylvain
• Granted Patent: US 9,468,235 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 2500/10 Knitted
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 9/04 Knickers for ladies, with or without inserted crotch or seat parts
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 1/003 Panty-girdles
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/243 upper parts of panties; pants

Abstract

The invention relates to a lower body garment comprising pants (1) with a knitted elastic base engaging with a network of rows of resin (7) applied to one surface of the elastic knit which forms the base of the pants, on the front and/or rear of the pants, characterised in that a knitted elastic lining (20) which is lighter than the base knit (5, 6) is provided in order to be applied freely to said surface of the base knit (5, 6) at least on said network of rows of resin (7).

Claims

1. A lower body garment comprising panties with an elastic base knit engaging with a network of elastic resin applied on one surface of the elastic base knit of the panties, in the front and/or back the panties, wherein a knitted elastic lining lighter than the base knit provided to be applied freely on said surface of the base knit at least at the place of said resin network.

2. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the base knit on which the resin network is applied is the inner surface.

3. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the lining is applied on the entire surface of the base knit which the network of lines is deposited.

4. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the lining is attached substantially peripherally to the surface of the base knit.

5. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the lining is made of a lightweight mesh of 60 to 100 g/m².

6. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the elastic resin is a silicone rubber.

7. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the network of resin lines is provided on one side of the panties and is completed on the other side by a compression band which allows creating around the panties a continuous ring of tension lines.

8. The garment according to claim 7, wherein the compression band is a heat-sealed textile band.

9. The garment according to claim 7, wherein curved resin lines disposed on one surface of the panties form a network which ends at the two edges of said surface, at least in one area of the edge and in that the ends of the band join at the edges of the opposite surface of the panties with the ending area of the resin lines disposed on the first surface.

10. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the front surface, the network of curved lines is formed by two symmetrical sets of lines going from the front of the thigh to the opposite hip, on the edge of the front surface, the two sets intersecting on the stomach.

11. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the back surface, the network of curved lines is composed of the lines surrounding and enclosing the two internal zones of the gluteus maximus in order to join one edge with another of the back surface.