Foundation garments – Breast or chest – e.g. – brassieres – With stiffening strips – strands – or stays – e.g. – wired
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-27
2001-02-20
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3741)
Foundation garments
Breast or chest, e.g., brassieres
With stiffening strips, strands, or stays, e.g., wired
C450S041000, C450S092000, C450S052000, C112S475090, C112S475060
Reexamination Certificate
active
06190232
ABSTRACT:
The present invention generally relates to an improved brassiere construction in which, more particularly, the improvement resides in brassiere construction aspects being correlated to breast anatomical aspects to contribute to enhancing comfort and uplifting support during wearing of the brassiere, all as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
EXAMPLE OF THE PRIOR ART
As known from common experience and for obvious reasons, the bottom of a brassiere cup is typically of a U and/or semi-circular shape to thusly conform in shape to the bottom shape of a breast. In the U and/or semi-circular brassiere cup shape it is known to use a shape-conforming component, usually of wire construction material and known in trade parlance as an “underwire”. Exemplary of prior art patents disclosing and illustrating a brassiere cup underwire is U.S. Pat. No. 4,203,449 for “Stretchable Underwire Casing For Breast Pockets” issued to Leo L. Winzelberg on May 20, 1980.
In the '449 and all other known patents there is the conformance in shape noted between the bottoms of the brassiere cup and breast, but there is overlooked additional possible correlation between these shapes which could contribute to greater comfort and support during wearing of the brassiere.
Broadly, it is an object to provide an improved constructed brassiere overcoming the foregoing and other shortcomings of the prior art.
More particularly, underlying the present invention is the recognition that anatomically the forwardly projecting position of a breast by its sheer weight creates an anatomical circumstance beneath a breast known in medical parlance as an infra mammary fold, and it is a further object to seat the underwire in the noted infra mammary fold to further correlate shape conformance between the brassiere cup and breast to the end of increasing comfort and uplifting support during wearing of the brassiere.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4203449 (1980-05-01), Winzelberg
patent: 5215494 (1993-06-01), Flanagan
Hale Gloria M.
Myron Amer PC
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