CA1199753A - Fastening band for making-up of garments and underwear articles - Google Patents

Fastening band for making-up of garments and underwear articles

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CA1199753A
CA1199753A CA000419613A CA419613A CA1199753A CA 1199753 A CA1199753 A CA 1199753A CA 000419613 A CA000419613 A CA 000419613A CA 419613 A CA419613 A CA 419613A CA 1199753 A CA1199753 A CA 1199753A
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Pedro Padros Roura
Jose Lopez Gual
Roland G. Tareau
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41WEARING APPAREL
    • A41FGARMENT FASTENINGS; SUSPENDERS
    • A41F1/00Fastening devices specially adapted for garments
    • A41F1/006Brassiére fasteners
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44BBUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B13/00Hook or eye fasteners
    • A44B13/0005Hook or eye fasteners characterised by their material
    • A44B13/0011Hook or eye fasteners characterised by their material made of wire
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44BBUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B13/00Hook or eye fasteners
    • A44B13/0052Strips of hook or eye fasteners
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44BBUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B13/00Hook or eye fasteners
    • A44B13/0058Eyelets or grommets
    • A44B13/0064Eyelets or grommets characterised by their material
    • A44B13/007Eyelets or grommets characterised by their material made of plastics

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Corsets Or Brassieres (AREA)
  • Details Of Garments (AREA)
  • Slide Fasteners, Snap Fasteners, And Hook Fasteners (AREA)
  • Outer Garments And Coats (AREA)
  • Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The fastening band for making-up garments and underwear articles is made of two elements of the same width, one carrying perforations in alignment and the other hooks adapted for fitting into the perforations. The female fastening band is composed of one or several parallel and equidistant holes or perforations which are produced through the use of an ultrasound machine, the perforation member of which causes, by heating and molding, an overthickness bordering the perforation in the fixation direction of the hook so as to block the latter between the overthickness and the upper face of a lower thinned-out portion.

Description

~ACI~GROuND OF THE_INVENTION
The subject of the present invention is a fas-tening band to be used in the making-up of garments, underwear articles, and even for belts and shoes.
Generally, this type of fastening means is mainly used for underwear articles, particularly for brassieres, garter-belts, swimsuits and similar articles, but the fastening bands currently used are made of bands with sewn buttonholes, bands provided with eyelets in which fit rigid hooks, or bands supporting junction members such as those known in the trade under the name of "Velcro bands", zip fasteners and the like. However, these various devices being more or less rigid and of a substantial thickness, are a nuisance for the wearer, and mainly for a woman whose underwear article is in permanent contact with the skin.
Often indeed, cutaneous reactions occur, which are painful and in any case a nuisance, since they can also be visible, especially when swimsuits are involved.
The present invention overcomes these disadvantages by providing male and female fastening bands the constitution of which is such that they can be easily cut and fixed by modern means on the garments and underwear * Trademark ~., cr/

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articles, and moreover these male and female fasteners are made of an extremely flexible material with a minimum of overthickness so as to permit fixation, on garments and underwear articles in a simple and safe manner, with usual movements r particularly or brassieres, but without exhibiting the hereabove mentioned disadvantages since the end of the hook is not in contact with the skin of the wearer.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, the fastening band for the making-up of garmen-ts and underwear articles is made of a first and a second element of the same width, the first element carrying aligned perforations and the second element carrying hooks adap-ted for fitting into the aligned perforations; the first element is a female fastening band composed of at least one parallel and equidistant row of perforations which are produced through the use of a machine having a perforation member which causes by means such as heating and ultrasound molding, an overthickness bordering the perforation in the fixation direction of the ~ook so as to block the hook between said overthickness and the upper face of a lower thinned-out portion.
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~97~;3 the fastening band is characterized in tha-t a support band is made of a ~abric and is covered with a band of a thermo-meltable material, then, when the ultrasound perforation is being produced, the covering band is fixed by means such as yluing and welding and suitably cut for forming around the perforation an overthickness for allowing blockage of the hook.
Various other features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

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Em~odiments cf the invention are sho~n by way of non limiting examples in the appended drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a plan view of a female band of a fastening device;
Fig~ 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II of Fig. l;
Fig~ 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is cross-section showing a modifica-tion of the embodiment of the female band of Fig. l;
Fig. 5 is a plan view of a third embodiment of the fastening device;

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7~;3 Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken along line VI-VI of Fig. 5 ;
Fig. 7 is a plan view showlng a fourth embodiment of the fastening device ;
Fig. 8 is a plan view of a fifth embodi~
ment of the fastening device ;
Fig. 9 is a partial plan view of elements used for making the fastening band of Fig. ~ ;
Fig. 10 is a plan view of a sixth embodimen~
of the fastening device ;
Fig. 11 is a plan view showing a seventh embodiment of the fastening device ;
Fig. 12 is a plan view of an eignth embodiment of the fastening device ;
Fig. 13 is a sectional view taken along line XIII-XIII of Fig. 12 ;
Fig. 14 iS a plan view of a ninth embodi~
ment of the fastening device ;
Fig. 15 is a sectional view taken along line XV-XV of Fig. 14 ;
-Fig. 16 is a plan view of a tenth - embodiment of the fastening device.
DISCLOSURE OF A PREFERRED EMBOD~MæNT
As shown in Fig. 1, the fastening band is made o~ a band of fabric of one or several thicknesses which can be obtained by superposing several layers ; - 4 -of fabric, or simply by a correct folding of the same band of fabric over itself, in order to obtain several thicknesses. The band l of fabric is then passed under the tool of a perforating machine, for ex~mple of the high frequency machine type, having means, such as a sonotrode in a high frequency machine, for cutting a portion of the fabric band in order to obtain a hole or perforation
2, or several rows of holes 2 equidistant and paral-lel as shown in Fig. l, and at the same time anupper and a lower thinned-out portion 3, 4 (see Fig.2) while creatin3 at ~he same time on the edge of each hole 2 an overthickness 5 at the upper portion of the thinned-out portion 4. The overthickness 5 is substantially in the form a half-cylinder which 7~h e r~ ;r~Y~ S
~r~K~ rU~A~cer~ a retaining device for the hook 6 ~see Fig. 3) which fits and blocks itself between the upper face of the overthickness 5 and the upper face of the thinned-out portion 3 provided underneath the fabric band l.
~ hereby is obtained a quite correct blockage of the hook 6 in each hole 2 in consideration, but also a protection of the lower portion of the hook 6 the end of whi~h cannot comP into contact with the skin of the wearer, mainly when it concerns fastening of a brassiere or a similar underwear article~

~97S3 The fact of creating the hole 2 by means of an ultrasound perforation device provides, due to the constitution of the fabric bands, edges perfectly regular for each hole or perforation 2 while ensuring thus a very pleasant presentation of the support band or ~ibbon. The hooks 6 can be in metal, but most often they are made of a synthetic material which is soft to the touch and does not irritate the skin. In some casest it is also possible, from a fabric band 1 of a single thickness, to create rows of perforations 10 tsee Fig. 4) by superposing on the fabric band 1 a band 11 of a metarial which, under the effect of the work performed by the ultrasound machine, is welded onto the fabric band 1 from place to place, thereby creating an overthickness 12 also perforated, the overthickness 12 forming the stopping mem~er for each hook.
It should also be noted that the excess material i6 removed from the upper portion of the fabric band 1, thereby providing an excellent presentation of the fastening bands~
In the~preceding cases, a band 1 of a non definite length has been shown, but it is obvious that during the work of the perforating machine, - 25 there is caused, for example for each second row of perforations 2, a cutting of the band 1 in order to ~ g7~i3 obtain ~ fastening band, comprising two, four, sixor eight perforations, appropriately arranged in order to be fixed easily by modern means on the end of a brassiere or a similar underwear article, this S fastening band co-acting easily w.ith a hook-holder band fixed on the other end of the piece of clothing.
Moreover, while the cutting operation is carried out a band 100 can be placed under band 1 and be welded peripherically under band 1 for avoiding the contact between the hook or hooks and the skin of the wearer~
In Fig. 5 is shown a fastening band for a piece of clothing which is made of a double thick-ness of fabric 20, 21 appropriately fixed one to the o~her as hereabove explained and presenting two rows 22, 23 of perforations 24 having a semi-circular shape, but ~etween the two thicknesses of fabric 20, 21 is placed an insert 25 of flexible material in-cluded between the two fabric ~hicknesses ~so that, when making the perforations 24, the upper layer 20 only is perforated since the insert 25 cQmpriseS
already from the very beginning, perforations 26 appropriately disposed.
Thus, the hooks 27 mounted on an appro-priate support 28 can fit into the free spacedefined by the perfora~ions 24 and 26, while the 75;3 lower face 27a of each hook 27 comes to bear on the lvwer fabric band 21 without being in contact with the skin.
Therefore, the as.sembly described hereabove with reference to Figs. 5 and 6 provides an easy fastening without any risk for the user, and therfore very confortable but, also due to the free ends of each fastening band shown at 29, 30, and due to the free ends shown at 31, 32 of the fastening band forming the support 28 for the hooks 27, the two fastening elements can be easily and quickly fixed by standard welding methods on the ends of a ~O,ecc ~e of clothing.
In Fig. 7 is shown a fastening band 35 having on its left hand side two fixation lips 36, 37,and this band is formed with aligned and equidistant perforations 38 the right hand side edae of which is reinforced by a thread~of a strong material so as to create an area of great resis-tance along the right hand side of each perforation 38 which, generally, is pierced only in the upper element of the fastening band in order ~hat the hooks do not come in contact with the skin of the wearer.
In Fig. 8I the fastening band 40, comprising two fixation lips 41, 42 on the left hand side portlon, is also formed of a double thicknessof fabric between which are placed inserts 43 (see Fig. 9) having on their right hand side face rounded portions 43a. When the assembly is placed under the perforating machine, the sonotrode cuts out perforations 44 which are equidistant, parallel and in alignment. Thus, this fas~ening band allows placing the hooks as described for the example of Fig. 7, with a very good resistance.
In Fig. 10, the fastening band 45 comprises fixation lips 46, 47 and the perforations 48 are provided by placing rings of a weldable material 49, in alignment, equidistant and parallal, before the perforations 48 are made. Thereby are obtained resistant fastening bands, which are without danger for the users.
Fig. 11 shows tubular-shaped inserts 50 (see Fig. 15) placed conveniently and fixed on a single thickness of fabric 51 in order to create ~, 20 perforations ~ in the band 51. The hooks are thusisolated from the skin by the outer portion s~ s-3 of the inserts 50O Lips 5~ as in the previous example allow an easy fixation of the fastening - band on the garment.
Figs. 12 and 13 show fastening bands and hook-holder bands which are made of two _ g _ 7~

superimposed layers of fabric 60, 61, with lnserts 63 conveniently disposed and leaving therebetween a large free space in order to create oblong perforations 64 for an easy penetration and a secure hooking of the hooks 65 which are rectangular in sectionr the hooks 65 being fixed on bands 66 having two lips 67, 68 for the welding on the piece of clothing. The double thickness fastening band 60, 61 comprises also lips 60a, 61a for the fixation on 10 the piece of clothing.
Finally, in Fig. 16, the fastening band comprises an insert made of a grid 70 formed of filaments of the natural or synthetic bristle type, for example bristles known in the trade under the name of "nylon bristles". The grid 70 is fixed by any appropriate means on the fabric band 71 having fixation wings 72, 73, and the perforations 74 conveniently disposed are made when the fastening band is ready. The perforations 74 can be made through the band 71, the grid 70, but it is also possible to provide under the grid 70 a layer of non p~rforated fabric, thereby isolatiny the hooks from the skin.
As is evident from the hereabove description, the fastening device according to the invention does away with any rigid reinforcement by using knitted -~L99~53 fabrics, nonwoven fabrics or taffetas without addition of hard elements. Thus can be made very narrow fastenings since the cutting of the male or female band can be carried out on the very edge of the perforations. This advantage is considerable since it allows using the fastening device according to the invention for setting straps while matching their width with that of the straps. Moreover, the fastening device allows obtaining v`arious cuts and colours and therefore can be adapted estheti-cally to the ma~e-up garments, children wear, sportswear, etc. ~As hereabove described, the total thickness is generally reduced of the material of the prior art devices and therefore concur to a perfect general harmony.

Claims (9)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1 - A fastening band for garments and underwear articles, said band comprising:
a first element made of a fabric material and which is provided with at least on row of perfora-tions, each row being parallel to the remaining rows, with the perforations of a given row being equidistant from one another and aligned with the perforations of the other rows; and a second element having the same width as said first element and being provided with one hook for each of said parallel rows of aligned perforations, said hooks being adapted to fit into aligned ones of said perforations;
said first element being a double layer of material, with inserts being disposed therebetween;
said perforations being provided in one of said layers between said inserts, which form reinforcement means,
2 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said perforations are provided in at least one of said layers and in said inserts, the latter being pro-vided with rounded portions on that side of said perfo-rations which is directed toward said second element so that rounded portions form reinforcement means.
3 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said double layer of material has transversely extending threads located in at least one of said layers and adjacent to said perforations to form reinforcement mean.
4 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said insert is a tubular insert.
5 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said perforations are circular.
6 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said perforations are semi-rectangular.
7 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which said perforations are oblong.
8 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which includes a grid-like insert on side of said first element to form said reinforcements, said insert compri-sing filaments selected from the group consisting of natural and synthetic material filaments.
9 - A fastening band according to claim 1, in which a portion of said first element is cut during pro-duction of said perforations in order to, weld the outer edges of said first element.
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