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US3381689A
US3381689A US642035A US64203567A US3381689A US 3381689 A US3381689 A US 3381689A US 642035 A US642035 A US 642035A US 64203567 A US64203567 A US 64203567A US 3381689 A US3381689 A US 3381689A
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Priority to GB8300/68A priority patent/GB1221121A/en
Priority to SE2252/68A priority patent/SE343466B/xx
Priority to NL6803158A priority patent/NL6803158A/xx
Priority to FI680636A priority patent/FI45162C/fi
Priority to FR1568231D priority patent/FR1568231A/fr
Priority to CH418468A priority patent/CH492411A/de
Priority to AT294768A priority patent/AT301473B/de
Priority to DK130168AA priority patent/DK137911B/da
Priority to DE19681760041 priority patent/DE1760041C2/de
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  • FIG. 5
  • This invention is a brassiere designed and constructed to expand with the chest when the wearer breathes and moves about, and yet minimize upward and downward movement from its porper position on the body.
  • a brassiere must not only support and shape the breasts but it must also accommodate to the constantly expanding and contracting of the wearers chest as she breathes, moves her arms and indulges in other body motions.
  • Each change in chest size and shape requires an accommodating change in the brassiere size and shape, particularly with respect to the area of the body just below the breasts. The more nearly perfectly the brassiere accommodates to changes in size and shape of the wearers chest, the better the brassiere.
  • the brasisere When the wearers chest expands or contracts, which occurs during normal breathing and other normal body movements, the brasisere merely tends to move up or down the chest wall in its effort to accommodate to chest expansion or contraction; but when chest expansion or contraction is excessive, the brassiere actually slides upwardly or downwardly. It is desirable for comfort and control purposes, that the amount of upward and downward brassiere movement is minimized; and when the wearers chest returns to its relaxed size and shape, that the brassiere returns to its proper position on the body.
  • lt is diicult to achieve brassiere accommodation particularly around the lower half of the periphery of the breasts. ln this area ofthe body, if the brassiere moves up and out it can ride off the chest wall and up onto the protuberance of the breast, causing discomfort and a feeling of insecurity; or if it moves down the chest wall, it flattens the breasts, again causing discomfort and also loss of desired breast separation and shaping.
  • the upward or downward movement problem can, of course, be solved by providing a very tight underbust band. That, however, merely substitutes one undesirable feature for another.
  • a brassiere constructed in accordance with my invention surprisingly accommodates to changes in chest size and shape as the wearer breathes and moves about, thus alleviating undesirable upward and downward movements of the brassiere from its proper position, yet adequately supports and shapes the breasts.
  • a brassiere is provided with a stretchable underbust band extending across under the cups, a pair of tapes secured to the inner edges of the cups, so as to form upper branches above the center of the brassiere and lower branches below it that extend to the underbust band, and a triangular piece of mesh-like fabric positioned in the space between the lower branches of the tapes and the underbust band.
  • the triangular piece of fabric has a group of parallel strands extending in one direction and a group of parallel strands extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first group of parallel strands.
  • each group of parallel strands is at an angle to the horizontal plane of the underbust band.
  • FIGURE 1 is a front elevation of a preferred embodiment of my brassiere as seen on the wearer;
  • FIGURE 2 is a slightly enlarged plan view of the center section of the brassiere of FIGURE 1 when it is not on the wearer but in a relaxed condition;
  • FIGURE 3 is a 17.5 enlargement of approximately a 3 mm. circular area of the triangular, mesh-like piece of fabric at the center of the brassiere of FIGURE 1, when it is not on the wearer but in a relaxed condition;
  • FIGURE 4 is a slightly enlarged plan view of the center section of the brassiere of FIGURE 1 when it iS on the body and under slight tension;
  • FIGURE 5 is a 17.5 enlargement of approximately a 3 mm. circular area of the triangular, mesh-like piece of fabric at the center of the brassiere of FIGURE 1 when it is on the body and under slight tension;
  • FIGURE 6 is a front elevation of a second embodiment of my brassiere as seen on the wearer.
  • FIGURE 7 is a front elevation of a third embodiment .of my brassiere as seen on the wearer.
  • my Ibrassiere may have any known or suitable dorsal band arrangement and shoulder straps; these are not the subject of my invention, and as they are conventional they are merely indicated here.
  • my brassiere has cups 10, 12 of a conical to hemispherical shape, each cup having an upper half 14, 16, a lower half 18, 20, and a generally horizontal mid-seam 22, 24.
  • the members making up the cups are, as is usual, cut with convex edges that are pulled to each other, overlapped, and sewn together to vform the mid-seam, thus providing outwardly peaked cups.
  • Tapes 26, 28 have upper branches 34, 36, which are respectively secured to the lower-inner edge regions of the cups 10, 12 and lower branches 38, 40 which are respectively secured to the lower-inner edge regions of cups 10, 12. These tapes are preferably secured to each other at the crossing or midpoint 42.
  • the upper branches 34, 36 of the tapes overlap-by about half their width-the upper-inner edge region of the cups 10, 12, and are secured to them by preferably a double line of stitching 44, 46.
  • Each tape is slightly extended as it is sewn to its corresponding cup. This results in a finished product which at rest is slightly gathered along that edge. It is thus capable of a small degree of stretch.
  • the portion of each tape that extends past the edge of the cup more readily adapts itself to the body in that region, and lies lightly but snugly against the skin.
  • the lower branches 38, 40 also overlap-the lower-inner edge region of the cups 10, 12.
  • These lower branches of the tapes 26, 28 are also secured to the cups 10, 12 by preferably a double line of stitching 44, 46, with the lower edge of the tapes being sewn to the cups 10, 12.
  • the upper branches, 34, 36 of the tapes 26, 28 extend freely out away from the cups 10, 12, whereas the lower branches 38, 40 of the tapes 26, 28 extend freely in over the cups 10, 12.
  • the double line of stitching 44, 46 also securely fastens the tapes to each other where they cross at the midpoint 42.
  • the triangular fabric 4S is made from a sheet of fabric that has a rst group of nonstretchable, spaced-apart iibre strands extending in one direction and a second group of nonstretchable, spacedapart fibre strands extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first group of strands. This material may be fabricated by well-known weaving, knitting or other nonstretch fabric formation techniques.
  • the triangular piece of fabric is fabricated so that the perpendicular groups of fibre strands are each at an angle to the base of the triangle, preferably at a forty-iive degree angle, or as is commonly referred to inthe art, the triangular piece of fabric is cut-on-the-bias.
  • my triangular-shaped, otherwise nonstretchable piece of fabric is advantageously stretchable in a direction parallel to its base.
  • an underbust band 50 which is preferably stretchable in the girthwise direction.
  • This band may be made of elastic material. It is secured to the lower edges of the cups 10, 12, the lower branches 38, 40 and the triangular fabric 48. Preferably, the top quarter inch or so of the underbust band overlaps-and is sewn to-the cups, lower branches of the tapes and the triangular fabric.
  • girthwise stretchability is preserved by virtue of the fact that it is sewn to the base of the triangular fabric 48, which is oriented to provide girthwise stretch by zig-Zag stretching.
  • Girthwise stretchability at the outer regions of the underbust band 50 is restrained since it is sewn to the lower edges of the cups 10, 12, which are virtually nonstretchable in the girthwise direction. It is preferable, however, to preserve a slight amount of girthwise stretchability at the outer regions of the underbust band 50.
  • the underbust band S0 is thus capable of a small degree of girthwise stretch in its outer regions.
  • the underbust band 50 is coterminous with the outer edges of the cups 10, 12 and both are joined to the dorsal band members 52, 54 of any desired nature.
  • the underbust band is assembled into the composite front panel it is curved on a downwardly concave arc.
  • FIG- URES 3 and 4 are respectively enlarged plan views of the lower, front-center section of my brassiere, when it is in a relaxed condition olf the body, and ⁇ when it is in an expanded or stressed condition on the body.
  • FIGURE 2 portions of the brassiere of FIGURE l are shown when the brassiere is in a relaxed condition, the reference numerals being used for like parts.
  • the group of spaced strands that run upwardly and to the right is substantially perpendicular to the group of spaced strands that run upwardly and to the left.
  • the two groups of strands fonm a plurality of substantially rectangular openings with each group of strands oriented at an angle to the upper edge of the underbust band 5t).
  • these angles are forty-live degrees, although thirty to sixty degrees is a permissive and acceptable range of angles.
  • FIGURE 4 portions of the brassiere of FIGURE l are shown when the brassiere is under girthwise stress or stretch, like reference numerals being used for like parts.
  • the group of spaced strands that run upwardly and to the right are no longer perpendicular to the group of strands that run upwardly and to the left.
  • the two groups of strands now form a plurality of variably shaped openings of parallelogram configuration, with each group of strands still oriented 'at an angle to the upper edge of the underbust band 50.
  • the upper and lower lower angles of the parallelograms vary from about degrees to about ll() degrees under varying degrees of stress, while the left and right angles of the parallelograms vary from about 90 degrees to about 70 degrees.
  • the base length of the triangular fabric 4S s-hown as length X between center-lines aL-a and b-b, of the ⁇ at-rest brassiere of FIGURE 2, enlarges or bias-stretches to a larger base length, as shown as length Y between center-lines a'-a and b-b of FIG- URE 4.
  • This bias-stretch capabilitiesi-ty is possible because of the orientation of the groups of strands of the triangular fabric 48 with respect to the upper edge of the underbust band 50, i.e., it is cut on-the-bias, and because the underbust band is at least stretchable in its central region between lche cups.
  • the enlarged rectangle has sides 60, 62, 64 and 66, upper angle 61 and side angle 63. Angles 61, 63 are each approximately 90 degrees while the sides are approximately equal in length.
  • the enlarged parallelogram-a rectangle under girthwise stress has sides 60', 62', 64', and 66', still approximately equ-al in length, but the upper angle 61 is larger than upper angle 61 and the side angle 63 is smaller than the side angle 63.
  • FIGURE 6 A Iirst alternate embodiment of my invention is shown in FIGURE 6.
  • Cups 10, 12, shoulder strap buckles 30, 32, shoulder straps 31, 33, trianglar fabric 48, underbust hand 50 and dorsal bands 52, 54 are substantially identical to corresponding elements above described.
  • Tapes 26', 28 are different from the above described tapes 26, 28 in that tape 26 extends from the top of cup 10, Ialong-and secured to--the upper-inner edge of cup and t-hen along and secured to the lower-inner edge of cup 10.
  • Tape 28 is similarly secured to cup 12 in that it extends from the top thereof, along the upper-inner edge, then along the D lower-inner edge, and secured thereto.
  • Tapes 26', 28' overlap the inner edge region of their respective cup and are secured there by two spaced rows of stitches 44', 46.
  • these tapes are substantially non-stretchable, although lengthwise stretchable tapes may be used.
  • FIGURE 7 A second alternate embodiment of my invention is shown in FIGURE 7 in which the cups, shoulder strap buckles, shoulder straps, triangular fabric, underbust band yand dorsal bands are substantially identical to corresponding elements above described.
  • tapes 26", 28" are different from the abovedescribed tapes 26, 28 in that tape 26" extends from the top of cup 10, along and secured to the upper-inner edge of cup 10, across the mid-point 42, then along the upper* ,inner edge of cup 12, terminating at the top thereof.
  • Tape 28 extends from the underbust band 50, along and secured to the lower-inner edge of cup 10, across the mid-point 42, then along the lower-inner edge of cup 12, terminating at the underbust band 50.
  • Upper branches 34, 36" above the mid-point 42, and lower branches 38", 40 below it are provided.
  • they may be secured together, for example, by ladder stitches (not shown) or they may overlap and be secured by conventional stitches.
  • Tape 26" overlaps by about half its width, the upperinner edge region of the cups 10, 12 and is secured to them by preferably la double line of stitching 44 in a manner similar to that above described with regard to tapes 26, 28 of FIGURE l. Tape 28 ⁇ overlaps the lowerinner edge region of the cups 10, 12 and is secured there by two spaced rows of stitches 46".
  • tape 26 is lengthwise stretchable while tape 28 is substantially non-stretchable.
  • a pair of tapes are secured to the inner edges of the cups, said tapes forming upper branches above the center of the brassiere and lower branches below it with the bottom ends of said lower branches extending down to the underbust band and being secured there;
  • an essentially uniform, triangular-shaped, piece of substantially non-stretch, mesh-like fabric is positioned on the bias with respect to the horizontal edge of said underbust band in the space between the lower branches of said tapes and said underbust band, with the three edges of said fabric being respectively secured to the inner edges of the lower branches of said tapes and the upper edge of said underbust band;
  • a pair of tapes are secured to the inner edges of the cups, said tapes forming upper branches above the center of the brassiere and lower branches below it with the bottom ends of said lower branches extending down to the underbust band and being secured there;
  • an essentially uniform, triangular-shaped, piece of fabric is positioned in the space between the lower branches of said tapes and said underbust band, with the three edges of said triangular piece of fabric being respectively secured to the inner edges of the lower branches of said tapes and the upper edge of said underbust band;
  • said triangular piece of fabric has a first group of spaced strands generally extending in one direction and a second group of spaced strands generally extending in a direction transverse to said one direction;
  • said triangular piece of fabric is secured to said lower branches and said underbust band so that each group of strands are at an angle to the horizontal edge of said underbust band;
  • a brassiere in which:
  • two crossed tapes are respectively secured to the inner edges of the brassiere cups and are secured to each other at their crossing point, said tapes having upper branches above their crossing point and lower branches below it;
  • an elastic underbust band extends under the cups and is secured to the lower edges thereof, said underbust band has essentially uniform construction throughout its length;
  • a substantially triangular piece of fabric is positioned in the space between the lower branches of the crossed tapes and the underbust band, with the three edges of said triangular fabric being respectively secured along the inner edges of the lower branches of said crossed tapes and along the upper edge of said underbust band;
  • said overlapping portions of each crossed tape are secured to said cups in a continuous line, the bottom ends of said lower branches extend to the underbust band and are respectively secured to the underbust band near the lower apices of the triangular insert intermediate the center and terminal portions of the underburst band.
  • a brassiere comprising:
  • f(c) 'an elastic underbust band extending under the cups and being secured to the lower edges thereof, lsaid underbust ban'd having essentially uniform c'onstruction throughout its length;
  • a brassiere of the type having a front section with a dorsal band arrangement and shoulder straps each respectively secured thereto for permitting brassiere accommodation to chest cavity expansion and contraction land for providing desirable breast separation, said front section comprising:
  • (d) ian essentially uniform substantially triangular insert, which is stretchable at least in a girthwise direction, positioned in the space between the lower branches of the tapes and the underbust band with the three edges of said triangular insert being re- ⁇ spectively secured to the inner edges of the lower branches of the tapes and the upper edge of the underbust band, the bottom ends of said lower branches extending down t-o the underbust band and being secured thereto near the lower apices of the triangular insert intermediate the center and terminal portions ofthe underbust band;
  • a brassiere of the type having a front section with a dorsal band arrangement and shoulder straps each respectively secured thereto for permitting Ibrassiere accommodation to chest cavity expansion and .contraction and for providing desirable breast separation, said -front section comprising:
  • an Iundeubust band extending across under the cups and being secured to the bottom edges of the cups, the underbust band having at least a portion thereof of substantially continuous unitary stretchability which is essentially of uniform construction and width throughout its length;
  • one of said tapes extends along and is secured to the upper-inner and lower-'inner edges of one cup;

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GB36921/70A GB1221122A (en) 1967-05-29 1968-02-20 Brassiere
GB8300/68A GB1221121A (en) 1967-05-29 1968-02-20 Brassiere
SE2252/68A SE343466B (de) 1967-05-29 1968-02-21
NL6803158A NL6803158A (de) 1967-05-29 1968-03-06
FI680636A FI45162C (fi) 1967-05-29 1968-03-08 Rintaliivit.
FR1568231D FR1568231A (de) 1967-05-29 1968-03-19
CH418468A CH492411A (de) 1967-05-29 1968-03-21 Büstenhalter
AT294768A AT301473B (de) 1967-05-29 1968-03-25 Büstenhalter
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DE19681760041 DE1760041C2 (de) 1965-02-23 1968-03-26 Büstenhalter
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