DE20012573U1 - Anti-chafe garment - Google Patents

Description

Description: G OO 082

Christa Resch-Spaniol 53119 Bonn

Anti-chafing garment

The innovation relates to an anti-chafing garment to protect against chafing and sweat in the thigh area.

It is known that in people, such as women, with strong or slim thighs, these tend to rub against each other when walking, and in warmer weather and when sweating, this can lead to unwanted chafing.

It is also known that tights offer limited protection here, but tights are a disadvantage in very hot weather as they encourage sweating. Underpants, on the other hand, offer no protection against thigh chafing, and long underpants are too bulky when worn with fashionable clothing, especially for women. So-called pantyhose or leggings, see for example EP 0 919 145 A2, are used to tighten the shape and are unsuitable as protection against chafing and to prevent sweating.

The innovation is based on the task of creating a practical anti-chafing protection in the form of a garment for the thighs.

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According to the innovation, this task is achieved with an anti-chafing garment made of knitted pantyhose fabric in air-permeable quality of 10 DEN or more and having at least one tube-like stocking leg with a minimum length of 12 cm and up to a maximum length sufficient to cover the thigh above the knee * and equipped with an elastic stretchable retaining band at the upper and lower ends of the tube.

The innovation is based on known tights, but according to the invention it redesigns them without foot and calf parts and possibly also without a belt part, i.e. it uses only the known tights knitted fabric, which is breathable, elastic and light, as a garment for the parts of the body to be protected, in particular the thighs. In its simplest form, the anti-chafing garment according to the innovation can consist of just a single tube-like part that is pulled over one thigh and already offers chafing protection in relation to the second thigh. The body is only covered in a small detail so that in very hot weather the formation of sweat can be prevented, since air permeability and airiness are guaranteed by leaving the rest of the body skin exposed. The secure fit of the tube is made possible by the upper and lower retaining straps, which are preferably designed on the side that lies against the skin with a rubber-like elastic coating made of a skin-friendly material in the form of strips or dots or, if necessary, full-surface bands. In addition, it is possible to design and highlight the retaining band in the area of the rubber-like coating in a pattern in the knitted fabric if necessary.

For longer tube-like garments, it may also be possible to provide a third strap in the middle area of the tube.
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According to a further proposal of the invention, it is provided that the anti-chafing garment has a trouser-like shape with two short tube-like stocking legs, wherein the tube-like stocking legs are

The lower ends are equipped with elastic stretchable retaining straps and the trousers in the upper area have a retaining strap in the form of an elastic belt.

The new anti-chafing garment can be made of silk, microfibers, viscose, rayon, nylon and/or polyamide and is elastically stretchable.

The innovation is illustrated and explained in the drawing using two examples. They show:

Figure 1 the anti-chafing garment in the form of two individual

tube-like parts, each of which is mounted on a person’s thigh,
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Figure 2 the anti-chafing garment in trouser-like form.

The tube 10 consists of a conventional, known tights knit, for example of density 1 5 DEN, for example of polyamide, polyamide in blends with other fibers or of silk. As shown in Figure 1, at least the upper edge and the lower edge of the tube 10 are provided with a patterned retaining band 2, 3, which forms the end of the tube. The retaining band is coated on the underside with a rubber-like adhesive layer, either flat or partially, which prevents it from slipping down the body part and from unraveling due to adhesion. As shown schematically, the tube-shaped garment 10 can have different lengths marked with a, b, c. It can also be provided with another retaining band in the middle area if necessary. The tube-like anti-chafing garment made of tights knit can be put on one thigh or both.

Figure 2 shows the design of the anti-chafing garment in the style of long-legged trousers. The two tube-like parts 10 are connected to one another via the trouser part 11, the upper end being formed by the elastic, stretchable retaining band 2 in the style of a belt or webbing, which is somewhat wider, and the lower edge of the tube- like parts being formed by the retaining bands 3, as explained in Figure 1. This innovative trouser-like garment can also be designed with different lengths a, b, c of the tube-like parts.

The elastic hat bands are also preferably covered on the underside with a rubber-like layer that adheres to the body, either over the entire surface in band form or in dot-like or strip-like form.

Claims (4)

1. Anti-chafing garment to protect the thigh area against chafing and sweat, made of knitted tights in breathable quality from 10 DEN or more with at least one tube-like stocking leg with a minimum length of 12 cm and up to a maximum length sufficient to cover the thigh above the knee, and an elastic stretchable retaining band at the upper and lower ends of the tube. 2. Anti-chafing garment according to claim 1, characterized by a trouser-like shape with two short tube-like stocking legs. 3. Anti-chafing garment according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that an elastic stretchable retaining band is applied in the middle region of the tube-like stump leg. 4. Anti-chafing garment according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the retaining band consists of a knitted fabric, optionally in a decorative pattern-like form, and a strip-shaped or full-surface coating of a rubber-like material applied to one side thereof.