Functional brassiere

• US 6,296,545 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2000
• Issued: 10/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chen, Hui-Mei
• Original Assignee: Chen, Hui-Mei
• Inventors: Chen, Hui-Mei
• Primary Examiner(s): Hale, Gloria M.
• Application Number:
  US09/692,862
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 250/38, 250/57, 250/58, 226/7, 226/8
• US Class Current: 450/38
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/0092 with different cup sizes
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/148 Prosthetic brassieres non-implantable mammary prostheses A61F2/52

Abstract

The invention relates to a functional brassiere that provides an adjustable engaging strap on the upper periphery of a human body engineered silicone rubber padding. The strap suspends the silicone rubber padding directly by engaging the adjustable engaging strap onto a shoulder strap so that the weight of the lower portion can be shared as well as assuring that the padding will not dislocate and fall due to swaying. The functional brassiere includes a silicone rubber body, a PU film, a seaming cloth, and an adjustable engaging strap, the silicone rubber body being a flexible and elastic body designed according to human body engineering to be a falsie of a “thinner upper portion and thicker lower portion” share suitable for a woman who has had a mammectomy to wear comfortably and fittably so that it will not dislocate and fall due to swaying and can restore the original plump breast and natural arc shape. The PU film is used to coat the silicone rubber body by evacuating the air trapped in the PU film and then hot sealing by a high frequency wave. The adjustable engaging strap is to be provided in the upper peripheries of the silicone rubber padding and seaming cloth. After further fitting and sealing, the functional brassiere with an adjustable engaging strap is thus accomplished.

Claims

1. In a brassiere which includes a shoulder strap and a cup secured to the shoulder strap, the improvement comprising:

a pad comprising a silicone rubber body, a PU film coating the silicone rubber body, and a seaming cloth on the silicone rubber body, and

an adjustable engaging strap secured to the pad, with a length-adjustment buckle and with an engaging hook at an upper end of the engaging strap, the hook being engageable with the shoulder strap,

whereby the cup helps retain the position of the pad, but the pad is suspended directly from the shoulder strap so as to distribute the pull of the pad over the shoulder and to reduce the weight retained by the cup.