BRASSIERE

• US 3,814,107 A
• Filed: 10/31/1972
• Issued: 06/04/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Irwin Greenblatt, Nicholas A. Marino
• Original Assignee: Irwin Greenblatt, Nicholas A. Marino
• Inventors: Greenblatt, Irwin, Marino, Nicholas A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Application Number:
  US05/302,553
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 128/477,478,479,480,489,494,498,510
• US Class Current: 450/56
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/10 with stiffening or bust-forming inserts

Abstract

A padded type brassiere has a pair of padded bust-supporting cups, a longitudinally resilient under-bust, body encircling band, a pair of resilient shoulder straps secured to the outer side-portion of the bust cups, and a pair of resilient gussets secured to the upper outer quadrants of the bust cups and the adjacent shoulder straps. The gussets flex in response to tension applied to the shoulder straps to maintain the bust cups in a relatively fixed position in relation to the under-bust band. The bust cups have a pad of soft fibrous material integral therewith, each forming a shelf along a generally diagonal line of the cup to push the bust of the wearer upwardly and inwardly of its normal unsupported position.

Claims

1. A brassiere comprising a. a pair of bust-supporting cups, each having an upper-outer quadrant, an outer-lower limit and outer-side edge portion, b. a longitudinally resilient under-bust band adapted to encircle the torso of the wearer beneath the bust thereof, said under-bust band being secured to the lower portion of said cups including their outer-lower limits to maintain said cups in relatively fixed position in relation to said under-bust band, and said under-bust having interengageable terminal members normally positionable at the back of the wearer, c. a pair of longitudinally resilient bands each having one-end thereof secured to said under-bust band adjacent the connection of the under-bust band with the outer-lower limit of one of said bust cups and stitched along and to the outer-side edge portion of said bust cup adjacent to the longitudinally resilient band and having the other end thereof secured to said under-bust band at a position normally at the back of the wearer, said pair of bands being adapted to extend over the wearer'"'"''"'"'s shoulders, and d. a pair of resilient gussets each extending and secured to the upper-outer quadrant of one of said bust cups and to the adjacent band, whereby said resilient gussets flex in response to tension applied to said bands in an upwardly and outwardly direction while maintaining said bust cup in a relatively fixed position in relation to said under-bust band.

2. The brassiere of claim 1 wherein each of said gussets is generally triangular in shape, having one of the sides thereof defined by and secured to the upper-outer quadrant of the adjacent bust cup, having another of its sides defined by and stitched to the adjacent band above the portion of said band which is stitched to the adjacent cup, the third side of said gusset being free of attachment to the remainder of said brassiere.

3. The brassiere of claim 1 wherein said resilient under-bust band includes horizontally elastic side panels secured to and extending rearwardly from the pair of longitudinally resilient bands at their junction with at least a portion of the outer-side edge portion of said bust cups and also secured to at least one of said interengageable terminal members.

4. A brassiere of the padded type comprising a. a pair of bust-supporting cups, each having an upper-outer limit, an upper-outer quadrant, an outer-lower limit and outer-side edge portions, b. a longitudinally resilient under-bust adapted to encircle the torso of the wearer beneath the bust thereof, said under-bust band being secured to the lower portion of said cups including their outer-lower limits to maintain said cups in relatively fixed position in relation to said under-bust band, and said under-bust band having interengageable terminal members normally positionable at the back of the wearer, c. each of said bust cups having a pad of soft fibrous material integral therewith, said pad extending substantially over the entire bust cup and having a generally triangular portion of maximum thickness below a line extending generally diagonally across each of said cups from the bottom of the cup adjacent its junction to the other cup and the under-bust banD toward the upper-outer limit of said cup, and a portion of said pad of minimum thickness extending substantially across the remaining area of said cups, whereby each of said pads forms a bust-supporting shelf generally along said line to push the bust of the wearer upwardly and inwardly of its normally unsupported position, d. a pair of longitudinally resilient bands, each having one end secured to said under-bust band adjacent the connection of the under-bust band with the outer-lower limit of one of said bust cups and stitched along and to the outer-side edge portion of said bust cup adjacent to the longitudinally resilient band, and having the other end thereof secured to said under-bust band at a position normally at the back of the wearer, said bands being adapted to extend over the wearer'"'"''"'"'s shoulders, and e. a pair of resilient gussets, each extending and secured to the upper-outer quadrant of one of said bust cups and to the adjacent band, whereby said resilient gussets flex in response to tension applied to said bands in an upwardly and outwardly direction while maintaining the bust cups in a relatively fixed position in relation to said under-bust band.

5. The brassiere of claim 4 wherein each of said pads is molded free of stitching integrally with its respective bust cup.

6. The brassiere of claim 4 wherein said resilient under-bust band includes horizontally elastic side panels secured to and extending rearwardly from the pair of longitudinally resilient bands at their junction with at least a portion of the outer-side edge portion of said bust cups and also secured to at least one of said interengageable terminal members.

7. The brassiere of claim 6 wherein said gussets and said side panels are reticulated to permit air circulation therethrough.

8. The brassiere of claim 1 wherein said bust-supporting cups are padded bust-supporting cups.

9. The brassiere of claim 8 wherein each of said gussets is generally triangular in shape, having one of the sides thereof defined by and secured to the upper-outer quadrant of the adjacent bust cup, having another of its sides defined by and stitched to the adjacent band above the portion of said band which is stitched to the adjacent cup, the third side of said gusset being free of attachment to the remainder of said brassiere.

10. The brassiere of claim 8 wherein said resilient under-bust band includes horizontally eleastic side panels secured to and extending rearwardly from the pair of longitudinally resilient bands at their junction with at least a portion of the outer-side edge portion of said bust cups and also secured to at least one of said interengageable terminal members.