Laminated brassiere wing

• US 7,431,631 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Issued: 10/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fildan Accessories Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fildan Accessories Corporation
• Inventors: Wanzenböck, Karl, Fildan, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Hale; Gloria
• Application Number:
  US11/025,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20060094335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,379 Days
• Field of Search: 450/58, 450/63, 450/71, 450/72, 450/73, 450/82, 450/80, 450/79, 450/85, 246/821, 24687-692, 24620-622, 2 9/6, 233/6, 233/8, 232/1, 232/2
• US Class Current: 450/71
• 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,

a respective elongated wing connected to each of the cups and extending around a wearer of the brassiere to form a back of said brassiere, a first one of said wings lying directly against the skin of a wearer of the brassiere and having a free end provided with at least one first fastener member, a second one of said wings lying outward of the first wing and pressing said first wing against the skin of the wearer and having at least one second fastener member engageable with said first fastener member adjacent a free end of said second wing, and

a bar formed on said second fastener member extending longitudinally of said second wing and limiting lifting of said second wing away from said first wing when said first and second wings are connected together by said fastener members across a back of the 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 second 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 second 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 first wing.

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 first wing, the second wing 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.