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US2535864A
US2535864A US141126A US14112650A US2535864A US 2535864 A US2535864 A US 2535864A US 141126 A US141126 A US 141126A US 14112650 A US14112650 A US 14112650A US 2535864 A US2535864 A US 2535864A
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  • This invention relates to an undergarment for women and more particularly to a brassiere that will give the wearer a fuller, yet a firm and natural, bust contour.
  • the present invention is designed to accomplish precisely this desirable result.
  • bust fillers and artificial devices heretofore used have failed to appreciate the fundamental fact that even the smallest bust is slightly pendulous. Dueto the pull of gravity. a slight shaliowness is always created in the upper portion of the cup. Thus, the bust fillers and artificial devices heretofore in use haveprovided the same added fullness to the total breast area.
  • a brassiere embodying the instant invention overcomes this shallowness in the upper part of the bust by having built in extra added fullness above the horizontal median line.
  • the bust fillers and artificial devices heretofore used have also been objectionable in that their use has been attendant with physical inconvenience and discomfort, and psychological discomfort.
  • the physical inconvenience in the actual wearing ofthese devices heretofore used has been that they have a tendency to slip and to otherwise cause embarrassing moments to the wearer; they also have a tendency to cause physical discomfort to the wearer due to the unnatural bulkiness. and for various other reasons. It is therefore the object of the present invention to overcome these physical inconveniences and discomforts by having added fullness built into a brassiere in the original manufacture. Moreover.
  • the above objects of my novel structure may be accomplished by means of a construction in which a felt cloth cup is secured within the outer cup to the supporting structure for the cups, and a plurality of semicircular laminations of a felt cloth are secured between the inner and outer cup above the horizontal median line. This creates a firm yet flexible contour for the wearer in a 1 way that is impossible to cause embarrassment.
  • the brassiere thus creates an artificial contour. without the disadvantageof the artificiality being noticeable to either sight or touch.
  • Another object of this invention is to give the wearer the added fullness along with the proper support in a garment that will be very comfortable to wear.
  • the support given will be of the most desirable type since it will give support to the entire bust.
  • a brassiere embodying the present invention will also be adaptable to aid women who, while they do not need a bust pad, still do not have sufficient bust to fill out an average brassiere, thus enabling a flat chested or semi-fiat chested woman to achieve the natural contours so desirable to i the proper. fitting of styles and so much more atcific embodiment of the present inventio a brassiere embodying the present invention com- I the present invention;
  • Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-4 on Fig. l;
  • Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken away view of the center of a cup of Fig. 1.
  • the brassire of Fig 1 consists of two breast pockets or cups 20 secured to body encircling bands II by the stitching ill.
  • the body encircling bands H are stitched together at the center of the brassire at 13..
  • the encircling hands it terminate on one side in hooks l5 and on the other side in an elastic strap ill on to which the eyes H are secured.
  • Conventional shoulder straps I8 are provided.
  • the cups it comprise, in this particular embodiment of the invention, four layers.
  • the outer layer l9 comprises 4 segments, Isa, I91), I80 and Hal secured together by lattice or fagoted stitching 20; these segments may be made of any fabric conventionally used in this class of garment and the outer layer may have the parallel rows of stitching 2i and may be formed as disclosed and claimed in my Patent No. 2,411,462 dated November 19, 1946.
  • the inner layer 23 of the cup I! is made of felt laminated with tricot jersey and comprises segments 23a, 23b and 230 (and one not shown) stitched together by stitching 24.
  • the inner layer 23 thus adds fullness and body to the cups and yet presents a smooth inner surface that will not irritate the skin of the wearer.
  • the inner layer 23 is secured to the encircling band H by the same stitching I2 that is used to secure the outer layer 19130 the encircling band II.
  • the intermediate layers 25 and 2B are made of felt and are preferably made in two segments secured together by stitching along a substantially vertical median line corresponding with the of the lattice stitching 20. Thus, they lend to thecup added fullness only in the upper portion.
  • the layer 25 thus not only contributes its share of the fullness to the cup solely above the horizontal median line but is also directed toward the center of the cup, All of the layers are secured together along the upper edge of the cup by stitching 28.
  • the filling is part of the cup itself and consists of a four layer cup with a cup construction.
  • a felt-like body I mean not specifically a. body made of felt material but any such material which is made by a felting or matting process in which short fibers of any composition are felted or matted together.
  • Examples of such material are felt, flannel and similar material in which short fibers are formed into a sheet material by a felting or matting together of such short fibers.
  • felted material there may, of course, be utilized in the construction of my garment a plurality of sheets, one of which may not be of a woven material.
  • a garment comprising a body encircling band and a pair of breast pockets, each of said breast pockets comprising a plurality of layers of nesting, cup-shaped, pro-formed soft, pliable. fabric material elements having a felt-like body. whereby the whole of the contour of each of such breast pockets is permanently and effectively maintained when the garment is in place upon the body of the wearer, and which breast pockets maintain their cup-shape and pliable, felt like body after repeated laundering of the garment in hot water.
  • a garment comprising a body encircling band and a pair of breast pockets, each of said breast pockets comprising a plurality of layers of nesting, cup-shaped, pre-formed, soft, pliable elements, at least one of said elements being of non-woven material whereby the whole of the contour of each of such breast pockets is permanently and eifectively maintained when the garment is in place upon the body of the wearer, and which breast pockets maintain their pliable cup-shape after repeated laundering of the garment in hot water.
  • a garment comprising a body encircling band and a pair of breast pockets each having at least one layer of soft, pliable fabric material having a felt-like body extending over the entire area of the breast pocket and at least one layer which covers substantially only one-half the area of the breast pocket, said last-mentioned layer extending in the vertical direction from the top of the breast pocket to a point substantially one-half way down on the breast pocket and in the horizontal direction from a point within one outer edge to a point within the other outer edge of said breast pocket.
  • a garment comprising a body encircling band and a pair of breast pockets, each of said breast pockets having an outer layer, and an inner layer, said inner layer and outerlayer both extending over the entire area of the breast pocket, an intermediate layer extending in the vertical direction from the top of said breast pocket to a line substantially coextensive with the horizontal median line of the breast pocket and extending in the horizontal direction from one side of the breast pocket to the other and a second intermediate layer extending in the vertical direction from the top of the breast pocket to a line substantially coextensivewith the hor izontal median line of the breast pocket and extending in the horizontal direction from a line within one side of the breast pocket to a line within the otherside of the breast pocket,
  • a garment as claimed in claim 6 in'which said second intermediate layer is secured along its vertical side edges to said first intermediate layer.
  • a garment comprising a body encircling band and a pair of breast pockets, each of said breast pockets having an outer layer, and an inner layer.
  • said inner layer and outer layer both 6 extending over the entire area of the breast pocket, an intermediate layer extending in the vertical direction from the top of said breast pocket to a line substantially coextensive with the horizontal median line of the breast pocket and extending in the horizontal direction from one side of the breast pocket to the other.

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BE500726D BE500726A (de) 1950-01-28
US141126A US2535864A (en) 1950-01-28 1950-01-28 Garment
DEP4867A DE858235C (de) 1950-01-28 1950-12-28 Waeschestueck, insbesondere Buestenhalter
CH289970D CH289970A (de) 1950-01-28 1951-01-03 Damen-Bekleidungsstück, z.B. Büstenhalter.
GB1496/51A GB709518A (en) 1950-01-28 1951-01-19 Improvement in or relating to bust supporting garments

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Cited By (10)

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US2651038A (en) * 1951-05-15 1953-09-08 Rosenthal William Brassiere
US2673981A (en) * 1952-07-05 1954-04-06 Benjamin & Johnes Inc Brassiere
US2685085A (en) * 1951-03-13 1954-08-03 Clover Henrietta Breast pad structure
US2691166A (en) * 1952-11-14 1954-10-12 Roth Harold Brassiere construction
US2704845A (en) * 1950-12-21 1955-03-29 Gluckin Lawrence Brassiere
US2764761A (en) * 1953-12-22 1956-10-02 Maiden Form Brassiere Company Brassiere
US2843130A (en) * 1954-12-15 1958-07-15 California Forms Inc Brassiere
US20100180357A1 (en) * 2007-06-13 2010-07-22 Betalife Gmbh Anti-transpiration insert
US20100263102A1 (en) * 2009-04-17 2010-10-21 Gabriella Trespalacios Garment protector
US20160360801A1 (en) * 2015-06-10 2016-12-15 Nike, Inc. Support garment with lock down support

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US1849514A (en) * 1930-12-13 1932-03-15 Model Brassiere Co Inc Brassiere
US2191545A (en) * 1937-07-01 1940-02-27 Celanese Corp Wearing apparel
US2258277A (en) * 1940-03-29 1941-10-07 Stein A & Co Brassiere
US2289345A (en) * 1941-02-17 1942-07-14 Edward C Craig Insulated and protective helmet
US2304989A (en) * 1940-09-20 1942-12-15 Celanese Corp Production of wearing apparel
US2333434A (en) * 1941-08-25 1943-11-02 Lucille H Middlecoff Brassiere pad
US2411462A (en) * 1944-07-14 1946-11-19 Henry M Plehn Brassiere and method of making same
US2460715A (en) * 1947-06-20 1949-02-01 Model Brassiere Corp Brassiere
US2462295A (en) * 1945-10-26 1949-02-22 Jantzen Knitting Mills Brassiere
US2505616A (en) * 1948-07-31 1950-04-25 Ralph D Goldberg Foundation garment

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US1849514A (en) * 1930-12-13 1932-03-15 Model Brassiere Co Inc Brassiere
US2191545A (en) * 1937-07-01 1940-02-27 Celanese Corp Wearing apparel
US2258277A (en) * 1940-03-29 1941-10-07 Stein A & Co Brassiere
US2304989A (en) * 1940-09-20 1942-12-15 Celanese Corp Production of wearing apparel
US2289345A (en) * 1941-02-17 1942-07-14 Edward C Craig Insulated and protective helmet
US2333434A (en) * 1941-08-25 1943-11-02 Lucille H Middlecoff Brassiere pad
US2411462A (en) * 1944-07-14 1946-11-19 Henry M Plehn Brassiere and method of making same
US2462295A (en) * 1945-10-26 1949-02-22 Jantzen Knitting Mills Brassiere
US2460715A (en) * 1947-06-20 1949-02-01 Model Brassiere Corp Brassiere
US2505616A (en) * 1948-07-31 1950-04-25 Ralph D Goldberg Foundation garment

Cited By (14)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2704845A (en) * 1950-12-21 1955-03-29 Gluckin Lawrence Brassiere
US2685085A (en) * 1951-03-13 1954-08-03 Clover Henrietta Breast pad structure
US2651038A (en) * 1951-05-15 1953-09-08 Rosenthal William Brassiere
US2673981A (en) * 1952-07-05 1954-04-06 Benjamin & Johnes Inc Brassiere
US2691166A (en) * 1952-11-14 1954-10-12 Roth Harold Brassiere construction
US2764761A (en) * 1953-12-22 1956-10-02 Maiden Form Brassiere Company Brassiere
US2843130A (en) * 1954-12-15 1958-07-15 California Forms Inc Brassiere
US20100180357A1 (en) * 2007-06-13 2010-07-22 Betalife Gmbh Anti-transpiration insert
US7954170B2 (en) * 2007-06-13 2011-06-07 Betalife Gmbh Anti-transpiration insert
EP2152107B1 (de) * 2007-06-13 2011-12-21 BetaLife GmbH Antitranspirationseinlage zur einbringung an einem kleidungsstück
US20100263102A1 (en) * 2009-04-17 2010-10-21 Gabriella Trespalacios Garment protector
US8011018B2 (en) * 2009-04-17 2011-09-06 Gabriella Trespalacios Garment protector
US20160360801A1 (en) * 2015-06-10 2016-12-15 Nike, Inc. Support garment with lock down support
US11213078B2 (en) * 2015-06-10 2022-01-04 Nike, Inc. Support garment with lock down support

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