Engineered push up insert

• US RE46,407 E1
• Filed: 09/11/2015
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Runberg, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Runberg, Inc.
• Inventors: MacKinnon, Debra
• Primary Examiner(s): ENGLE, PATRICIA LYNN
• Application Number:
  US14/851,822
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 450 36- 39, 450 54- 58, 450 1, 2267, 2268, 623 7, 623 8
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/10 with stiffening or bust-forming inserts
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/144 Pads

Abstract

Kidney-shaped push up insert including first lobe and second lobe is provided. Notch is formed in top side between first lobe and second lobe. Insert has depression formed adjacent top side extending towards notch. Second main surface opposes first main surface. Second main surface is substantially smooth arcuate-shaped surface. First lobe has narrower width between top side and bottom side than second lobe, and second lobe is thicker between first main surface and second main surface than first lobe. Ratio of maximum thickness between first main surface and second main surface to maximum length between opposing ends of first lobe and second lobe is less than about 9 and/or ratio of depth of notch from a straight line connecting first lobe and second lobe along top side of insert to width of insert from top side to bottom side at depth of notch is less than about 4.

Claims

1. A kidney-shaped push up insert comprising:

a first lobe;

a second lobe on an opposing side of the bra insert from said first lobe;

a top side;

a bottom side on an opposing side of the bra insert from said top side, wherein a notch is formed in the top side between the first lobe and second lobe;

a first main surface having a depression formed adjacent the top side and extending towards the notch; and

a second main surface opposing said first main surface, wherein the second main surface is a substantially smooth arcuate-shaped surface,

wherein the first lobe is narrower in width between the top side and the bottom side than the second lobe, and the second lobe is thicker between the first main surface and the second main surface than the first lobe,

wherein a ratio of a maximum thickness between the first main surface and the second main surface to a maximum length between opposing ends of the first lobe and second lobe is less than about 9, and

wherein the bra insert is kidney-shaped as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface or second main surface.

2. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the maximum thickness between the first main surface and the second main surface to the maximum length between opposing ends of the first lobe and second lobe ranges from about 2 to about 8.

3. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the maximum thickness between the first main surface and the second main surface to the maximum length between opposing ends of the first lobe and second lobe is about 4.5.

4. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the top and bottom sides meet at opposing ends of the first lobe and second lobe.

5. The kidney-shaped pushup bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the insert comprises a non-porous polymer.

6. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the non-porous polymer is a silicone.

7. The kidney-shaped pushup bra insert according to claim 1, wherein the bra insert is pliable and pushes up a breast of a wearer when inserted into a bra.

8. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 7, wherein the bra insert conforms to the breast of the wearer.

9. The kidney-shaped pushup bra insert according to claim 8, wherein the depression lifts and supports the breast of the wearer.

10. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 8, wherein the first lobe and the second lobe push up the breast.

11. A kidney-shaped push up bra insert comprising:

a first lobe;

a second lobe on an opposing side of the bra insert from said first lobe;

a top side;

a bottom side on an opposing side of the bra insert from said top side, wherein a notch is formed in the top side between the first lobe and second lobe;

and

a first main surface having a depression formed adjacent the top side and extending towards the notch;

and

a second main surface opposing said first main surface, wherein the second main surface is a substantially smooth arcuate-shaped surface,

wherein the first lobe is narrower in width between the top side and the bottom side than the second lobe, and the second lobe is thicker between the first main surface and the second main surface than the first lobe,

wherein the top side of each of the first lobe and the second lobe is substantially convex-shaped,

wherein the second lobe is positioned closer to a vertical centerline of a chest of a wearer than the first lobe as viewed from a direction facing the chest,

wherein a ratio of a depth of the notch from a straight line connecting the first lobe and second lobe along the top side of the bra insert to a width of the bra insert from the top side to the bottom side at the notch is less than about 4, and

wherein the bra insert is kidney-shaped as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface or second main surface.

12. The kidney-shaped push up insert according to claim 11, wherein the ratio of the depth of the notch from the straight line connecting the first lobe and second lobe along the top side of the bra insert to the width of the bra insert from the top side to the bottom side at the notch ranges from about 1 to less than about 4.

13. The kidney-shaped push up insert according to claim 11, wherein the ratio of the depth of the notch from the straight line connecting the first lobe and second lobe along the top side of the bra insert to the width of the bra insert from the top side to the bottom side at the notch is about 2.

14. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 11, wherein the top and bottom sides meet at opposing ends of the first lobe and second lobe.

15. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 11, wherein the bra insert comprises a non-porous polymer.

16. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 11 15, wherein the non-porous polymer is a silicone.

17. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 11, wherein the bra insert is pliable and pushes up a breast of a wearer when inserted into a bra.

18. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to to claim 17, wherein the bra insert conforms to the breast of the wearer.

19. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 18, wherein the depression lifts and supports the breast of the wearer.

20. The kidney-shaped push up bra insert according to claim 18, wherein the first lobe and second lobe push up the breast.