GB2501396A

GB2501396A - Muscle-training pants

Info

Publication number: GB2501396A
Application number: GB1306935.6A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Ming-Yao Lou; Yen-Chung Chen
Original assignee: AROPEC SPORTS CORP
Current assignee: AROPEC SPORTS CORP
Priority date: 2012-04-17
Filing date: 2013-04-17
Publication date: 2013-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 2033-04-17
Also published as: GB201306935D0; DE202013003618U1; TWM439356U; JP3186056U; GB2501396B; AU2013100534A4

Abstract

Muscle-training pants comprise a main body 10 with a series of elastomeric tightening bands or zosters mounted on it. The body shaping garment may be worn by the user while taking exercise. These bands include two zosters front 20 and two rear (30, figure 2) extending from the waist band 111 down the front and back of the leg panels 13, 14. Other bands cross over at the front 40, 60, with another pair crossing at the rear (50, 70 figure 2). These bands then also cross over in the hip region and extend around the front and rear of the thigh portions of the garment 50, 70. The arrangement of these bands can provide additional resistance against the femoral quadriceps and biceps to boost any training effect.

Description

MUSCLE-TRAINING PANT

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Held of the Invention The present invention relates generally to a pant and more particularly, to a muscle-training pant.

2. DescriptIon of the Related Art

There are many kinds of commercially available body-shaping pants providing tightening strength which can focalize the regional muscles and fat of human body to specific portions to reach the body-shaping purpose.

For example, Taiwan Patent No. M325741 disclosed an improved body-shaping pant; which includes a spiral tightening member mounted to the main body of the patent and a tightening member mounted to a rear end face of the pant. In this way, the total tightening strength of the two tightening members can make the hip upandshapethethighs.

In general, the aforesaid conventional body-shaping pant is to be worn by a user while he or she does not take exercise, thus making the user passively be tightened for the body-shaping purpose. To make the hip up, the tightening members are located rightaroundthehi In addition to the passive body shapin some of the users also hope to wear such pants, while taking exercise, to have more muscle-training effects attained by resistance generated by the tightening stttngths of the pants. However, the conventional body-shaping pant in design fails to achieve effective muscle training as applied to body building. In particular, the tightening members of the conventional body-shaping pant are designed to pass the hip, so the auxiliary training effects on major muscles, like femoral quadriceps and biceps, are very limited. *1

SUMMARY OF TILE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a muscle-training pant, which can provide effective muscle training.

The ibrcgoing objective of the present invention is attained by the muscle-training pant is formed of a main body, two front zosters, two rear zosters, a first left zoster, a second left zoster, a first right zoster, and a second right zoster. The main body includes a waist portion, a hip portion adjacent to the waist portion, a left-thigh portion, a right-thigh portion, a front lateral, and a rear lateral. Each of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions extends downward from the hip portion and includes a bottom edge.

The waist portion includes a top edge. The two front zosters are mounted to the front lateral of the main body and provided with a tightening strength, extending downward to respective end edges adjacent to respective centers of the bottom edges of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions from respective end edges located between a center of the top edge of the waist portion and left and right sides of the waist portion. The two rear zosters are mounted to the rear lateral of the main body and provided with a tightcning strength, extcnding downward to respective end edges adjacent to the respective centers of the bottom edges of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions from respective end edges located between the center of the top edge of the waist portion and the left and right side of the waist portion. The first left and right zosters pass by the front lateral of main body to respective right and left sides of the hip portion flvm the left and right sides of the waist portion and keep passing by the rear lateral of the main body to respective undersides of the right-thigh and left-thigh portions. Thc second left and rights zosters pass by the rear lateral of the main body to the right and left sides of the hip portion from the left and right sides of the waist portion and keep passing by the flx,nt lateral of the main body to the respective undersides of the right-thigh and left-thigh portions. Each of the first and second left zosters and first and second right zosters has tightening strength.

In light of the aboye, the arrangement of the front and rear zosters can provide additional rcsistancc against the femoral quadriceps and biccps to boost the training cffcct.

S BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a right vicw of the preferrcd cmbodimcnt of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a lateral vicw of thc prcferrcd cmbodimcnt of thc prcscnt invcntion in use.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Structural features and desired effects of the present invention will become more fully understood by reference to a preferred embodiment given hereunder.

However, it is to bc understood that thc cmbodimcnt is given by way of illustration only, thus is not limitative of thc claim scope of thc prcscnt invcntion.

Referrillg to FIGS. 1-3, a muscle-training pant in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is formed of a main body 10, two front zosters 20, two rear zosters 30, a first left zoster 40, a second left zoster 50, a first right zoster 60, and a second right zoster 70. The detailed descriptions and operations of these elements as well as thcir intcrrclations arc recitcd in the rcspcctivc paragraphs as follows.

The main body 10 is made of cotton fiber or another fiber or a knitted cloth made of a plurality of fibers and uncertainly has any tightening strength. Preferably, the main body 10 has slight tightening strength for clinging to human skin. The main body 10 includes a waist portion 11, a hip portion 12 adjacent to the waist portion 11, a left-thigh portion 13, and a right-thigh portion 14. The left-thigh and right-thigh portions 13,14 extend downward from the hip portion 12. The waist portion 11 includes a top edge 111. Each of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions 13,14 includes a bottom edge 131,141. The main body 10 includes a front lateral 101 and a rear lateral 102. The boundaries between the front and rear laterals 101,102 arc left and right sides of the main body 10, respectively. It is to be noted that the terms "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", and "bottom" in the context are based on the orientation while the user wears the muscle-training pant of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. I again, the two front zosters 20 are mounted to the front lateral 101 and provided with a tightening strength, extending downward to respective cnd edges 132,142 adjacent to respective centers of the bottom edges 131,141 of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions 13,14 from respective end edges 112,113 located between a center of the top edge 111 and left and right sides of the waist portion 11. In other words, the front zoster 20 located at the left side of the main body 10 extends between the two end edges 112,132 and the front zoster 20 at the right side of the main body 10 extends between the two edges 113,142, so the orientations of the extension of the two front zosters 20 are parallel to the human femoral quadriceps.

Referring to FIG. 2 again, the two rear zosters 30 are mounted to the rear laterals 102 of the main body 10 and provided with tightening strengths, extending downward to respective end edges 133,143 adjacent to the bottom edges 131,141 of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions 13,14 from respective end edges 113,115 located between a center of the top edge 111 and the left and right sides of the waist portion 11.

In other words, the rear zostcr 30 located at the left side of the main body 10 extends between the end edges 114,133 and the other rear zoster 30 located at the right side of the main body 10 extends between the end edges 114,143, so the orientations of the two rear zosters 30 are parallel to the human femoral biceps.

Referring to FIGS. 1-3 again, the first left zoster 40 passes by the front lateral 101 of the main body 10 from the left side of the waist portion 11 to the right side of the hip portion 12 and keeps passing by the rear lateral 102 to an underside of the right-thigh portion 14.

The second left zoster 50 passes by the rear lateral 102 of the main body 10 from the left side of the waist portion 11 to the right side of the hip portion 12 and keeps passing by the front lateral 101 from the right side of the hip portion 12 to the underside of the right-thigh portion 14.

The first right zoster 60 passes by the front lateral 101 of the main body 10 from the right side of the waist portion 11 to the left side of the hip portion 12 and keeps passing by the rear lateral 102 from the left side of the hip portion 12 to an underside of the left-thigh portion 13.

The second right zoster 70 passes by the rear lateral 102 of the main body 10 from the right side of the waist portion 11 to the left side of the hip portion 12 and keeps passing by the front lateral 101 from the left side of the hip portion 12 to the underside of the left-thigh portion 13.

Each of the front and rear zosters 20,30 of the first and second left zosters 40,50, and first and second right zosters 60,70 includes tightening strength and the total tightening strength of the front and rear zosters 20,30 is greater than that of the first and second left zosters 40,50 or that of the first and second right zosters 60,70. The difference between the tightening strengths is reached by elastomeric fiber bands with different deniers. The difference between the tightening strengths can also be reached by clastomcric fiber bands with the same diner but different lengths. For example, while the user wears the muscle-training pant, each of the front and rear zosters 20,30 is long enough to enable the user to stretch it up to 80% of its maximum tension, and each of the fir st and second left zosters 40,50 and first and second right zosters 60,70 is long enough to enable the user to stretch it up to 70% of the maximum tension. In this way, even if the elastomeric fiber bands are the same in denier, the predetermined tensions of the elastomeric fiber bands can still be adjusted subject to different lengths to enable cach of the front and rear zostcrs 20,30 to pmvidc greater tightening strength. Besides, the total tightening strcngth of the front and rear zosters 20,30 and other zostcrs is much greater than that of the main body 10.

Referring to FIG 4, when the user wears the muscle-training pant of the present invention, the arrangement of the front and rear zosters 20,30 in coordination with other zosters can enable the user to strengthen his or her femoral quadriceps and biceps to further lead to good excrcisc effect of the major muscles of the hip and thighs, improving the deficiency that the conventional body-shaping pant has not been fully applicable to the people who take excise and satisfring the user's pluralistic needs.

In addition to the aforesaid preferred embodiment of the present invention, the muscle-training pant of the present invention can partially have alterative structures. For example, the lengths of the main body and the zosters can be adjusted, or the main body and the zosters can be stitched together.

Claims

WHAT IS CLA]MED IS: I. A muscle-training pant being characterized in that the muscle-training pant comprises: amainbodyhavingawaistportion,ahipportionaenttothewaistportion, a left-thigh portion, a right-thigh portion, the left-tight and right-thigh portions extending downward fnm the hip portion, the waist portion having a top edge, each of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions having a bottom edge, the main body having a front lateral and a rear lateral; two front zosters mounted to the front lateral of the main body and having a tightening strength, the two front zosters extending downward flvm respective end edges located between a center of the top edge of the waist portion and left and right sides of the waist portion to respective end edges adjacent to respective centers of the bottom edges of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions; two rear zostcrs mounted to the rear lateral of the main body and having a tightening strength, the two rear zosters extending from respective end edges located between a eenter of the top edge of the main body and the left and the right sides of the waist portion to respective end edges adjaeent to the respective centers of the bottom edges of the left-thigh and right-thigh portions; aflrst leftzosterpassingbythe frontlateralofthemainbody fromthe leftside of the waist portion to a right side of the hip portion and keeping passing by the rear lateral of the main body from the right side of the hip portion to an underside of the right-thigh portion, the first left zoster having a tightening strength; a second left zoster passing by the rear lateral of the main body from the left side of the waist portion to the right side of the hip portion and keeping passing by the fix,nt lateral of the main body fix,m the right side of the hip portion to the underside of the right-thigh portion, the second left zoster having a tightening strength; a first right zoster passing by the front lateral of the main body from the right side of the waist portion to a left side of the hip portion and keeping passing by the rear lateral of the main body from the left side of the hip portion to an underside of the left-thigh portion, the first right zoster having tightening slrength and asecondrightzosterpassingbythethrntlateralofthemainbodyfiumthe right side of the waist portion to the left side of the hip portion and keeping passing by the front lateral of the main body from the left side of the hip portion to the underside of the left-thigh portion, the second right zoster having a tightening strength.
2, The muscle-training pant as defined in claim 1, wherein the total tightening strength of the front and rear zosters is greater than that of the first and second left zosters or that of the first and second right zosters.
3. The muscle-training pant as defined in claim 1, wherein the main body does not have any tightening strength.
4. The muscle-training pant as defined in claim 1, wherein the main body comprises a tightening strength which is much less than that of the flx,nt and rear zosters.