US3467107A - Band connection for garments - Google Patents

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Sept. 16, 1969 L. HEYMAN ET AL BAND CONNECTION FOR GARMENTS Filed March 20, 1967 INVENTORS- ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,467,107 BAND CONNECTION FOR GARMENTS Louis Heyman, Bayonne, Bernard Netkin, Elizabeth, and

David Butvinik, Bayonne, N.J., assignors to Maidenform, Inc., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed Mar. 20, 1967, Ser. No. 624,686 Int. Cl. A41c 3/00 U.S. Cl. 128-501 4 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The object of the present invention is to provide an improvement in band connections for garments which eliminate hook-receiving eyes, which improvement consists of a combination including a primary integral textile member which receives the hook or hooks in a special manner at any point along its exposed length.

Through the years, many efforts have been made to provide adjustable band connections for garments without the use of metal eyes or the like, which eyes have disadvantages long recognized. Thus it was proposed, for elements to receive the hooks, spaced wires arranged transversely of a textile band and held in place at their ends by strips of fabric; a further attempt was to stitch successive fabric loops transversely on the primary band to receive long flat hooks entering the loops at their end open edges. These followed a still earlier effort which proposed stitching a short length of netting on the band to receive the hooks. A much later attempt was by proposing a tape having a succession of transverse folds held by stitching the folds, at their upper and lower ends, to the primary band thus forming lateral pockets for receiving the hooks.

The various elforts to provide a commercially acceptable eye (or buckle) discarding combination have continued for decades and have not met success, until the present invention.

By means of this invention, the primary band, which receives a hook or hooks of the coacting band, is woven rapidly and economically as a complete unit in continuous lengths, with relatively heavy marginal longitudinal warp sections tied in, held, and separated by light but very strong filament which visually appears between the said warp margins as a ladder-like formation. When a plurality of rows of said exposed ladder-like filament formation is woven into the warp, heavier warp areas will lie at the margins of the band and also between each of said rows. The distance between any two opposed warp areas may be in accordance with the width of a hook on the coacting band and which interlocks wtih a plurality of crossed strands of the filament ladder.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view looking at the inner face of a brassiere and showing application of the invention to bands for connecting the back members of the brassiere and for connecting the shoulder straps leading to the cups from the back bands.

FIGURE 2 is a somewhat enlarged schematic plan view of a coacting primary band in accordance with the invention, showing the filler filament separating a relatively heavy warp length at each margin and one at the center Patented Sept. 16, 1969 ICC of the band, two spaced ladder-like rows of filament being exposed, and the filler filament being cut away between raised ends of the spaced warp sections.

FIGURE 3 is an enlarged schematic view, as if taken on transverse section, indicating merely the directions of a filler monofilament as it extends back and forth to tie in the warp thread groups into spaced strip-like lengths, the figure being broken away at its right hand end.

Referring to the drawings, we have conventionally shown in FIG. 1 a brassiere having cups 1 connected to back bands 2, and provided with shoulder straps 3. For connecting the back bands, the back band on the right has seamed thereto a longitudinally elastic band 4 carrying two hooks 5. The left hand back-band has seamed thereto the coacting primary band 6.

In schematic FIG. 3, it will be seen that the filament 7, leading from the right, has passed over the warp threads of the group at the right (one warp thread only being indicated at 6), thence under the warp threads 8 of the central group, thence over the warp thread-s 9 of the left hand group, thence under the latter, thence up over the central group of warp threads 8, continuing under the group of warp threads 6. The filament then reverses its stated right hand throw.

FIG. 3 being merely schematic, it greatly exaggerates the lay of the filler filament and warp shown. The filament between the indicated sections of warp threads 8 is purposely shown in curves to visualize how, by reverse throw, adjacent leads of the filament are crossed at the ladderlike areas between marginal and central groups by warp threads tied in by the filament. Such is the purpose of FIG. 3; and the manner in which the filament will be led to tie in the intermediate threads of each warp section; it will of course be as desired in accordance with standard loom practice. For this reason, and for clarity of illustration, the filament is not indicated in FIG. 2 at the ends of its ladder-like leads (left end).

The warp is preferably made of elastic threads, and a fine but strong filler filament having spacing between adjacent leads thereof, providing the ladder-like formation, does not materially restrict stretch of the primary band. While the filler may be flexible, it is without material stretch.

A monofilament is preferred, and the hook or hooks of the coacting band will engage filament loop sections extending in both transverse directions from the margins of the outer warp sections.

For the filler filament in brassiere and like relatively light connecting bands, the filament may be of fine, but strong nylon or polypropylene, as examples. In FIG. 2 the filler filament in each of the exposed ladder-like areas is slightly spaced in groups, each group near its ends tieing-in loops 10 of one or more warp threads. A hook of the coacting band may engage all or many of the filler filament ladder leads of a group, and the ladder may be composed of six or more fine filler filament leads, it being found that a high tensile nylon filament as fine as .010 gauge will withstand a pull of seven pounds.

This grouping formation is not essential, however, nor are the warp thread loops required, and the latter are not shown in FIG. 2.

It is desired that a relatively soft textile backing be provided for the primary band, this being indicated in FIG. 2 at 11. Stitching 12 through the outer margins of the warp elements of the band and into the backing will not only hold the two members together but will reinforce the loops of the filler filaments encompassing the side edges of the band.

By means of the invention the combination is provided of a hook carrying band and a primary coacting integral textile band which receives and holds the hook or hooks, at any point along its length, by means of exposed ladder- 3 like hook-receiving areas of a filler filament of high tensile strength, which are gripped in plurality by the hook or hooks.

A single ladder-like area, or two or more such areas, may extend longitudinally of the primary band and each bordered by warp sections tied in by the filament loops. The combination is stable, effective to a high degree, and economical. It may be applied not only to brassieres but for the connecting bands of trousers and garments in general.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A band connection for garments comprising an integral woven fabric band member having at least two parallel strip-like mutually spaced woven areas from which threads of said areas extend transversely across the space between them and are exposed from end to end thereby providing an elongated ladder-like thread formation adapted to be engaged by the hook of a second band member.

Z. A band connection for garments comprised of a first band member carrying at least one hook, and a second woven fabric band member having a set of warp threads, and a filler filament for tieing in said warp threads, said second band member having at least two parallel strip-like mutually spaced woven areas connected by the said filament by threads extending transversely across the space between said strip-like areas and providing an elongated ladder-like exposed thread formation adapted to be engaged by the hook of the first band members.

3. A band connection for garments constructed in accordance with claim 2 in which the filament which provides a ladder-like thread formation between the spaced woven strip-like areas is led across the outer boundary edges of said second band member in successive reversely extending leads, reverse leads of said filament successively crossing each other at the space between each two striplike woven areas.

4. A band connection for garments constructed in accordance with claim 2 in which the threads of the ladderlike formation are arranged in spaced parallel groups.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,482,640 9/1949 Spiess 128558 3,076,463 2/ 1963 Vorsteher 128501 3,302,649 2/1967 Bruno 128501 2,237,022 4/ 1941 Andrews 2237 ADELE M. EAGER, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R.

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