Foundation garments – Breast or chest – e.g. – brassieres – With stiffening strips – strands – or stays – e.g. – wired
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-31
2001-10-23
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3765)
Foundation garments
Breast or chest, e.g., brassieres
With stiffening strips, strands, or stays, e.g., wired
C450S041000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06306005
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to braziers and more particularly pertains to a new bust support device for utilizing a support member which is removable from a bust supporting garment.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of braziers is known in the prior art. More specifically, braziers heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,472,366; U.S. Pat. No. 4,558,705; U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,614; U.S. Pat. No. 5,527,202; U.S. Pat. No. 4,617,934; and U.S. Pat. No. 35,666.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new bust support device. The inventive device includes a bust support device. The device is mountable in a bust supporting article of apparel. The bust supporting article of apparel has a pair of cups. Each of the cups has a bottom edge. Each of a pair of sleeves is fixedly coupled to one of the bottom edges of the cups. The sleeves each have a first end and a second end. Each of the first ends of the sleeves has an opening therein. Each of a pair of support members is removably insertable in one of the sleeves. Each of the support members is elongate and has a first and second end. Each of the support members is generally arcuate.
In these respects, the bust support device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of utilizing a support member which is removable from a bust supporting garment.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of braziers now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new bust support device construction wherein the same can be utilized for utilizing a support member which is removable from a bust supporting garment.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new bust support device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the braziers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new bust support device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art braziers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a bust support device. The device is mountable in a bust supporting article of apparel. The bust supporting article of apparel has a pair of cups. Each of the cups has a bottom edge. Each of a pair of sleeves is fixedly coupled to one of the bottom edges of the cups. The sleeves each have a first end and a second end. Each of the first ends of the sleeves has an opening therein. Each of a pair of support members is removably insertable in one of the sleeves. Each of the support members is elongate and has a first and second end. Each of the support members is generally arcuate.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new bust support device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the braziers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new bust support device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art braziers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new bust support device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new bust support device which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such bust support device economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device for utilizing a support member which is removable from a bust supporting garment.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device which includes a bust support device. The device is mountable in a bust supporting article of apparel. The bust supporting article of apparel has a pair of cups. Each of the cups has a bottom edge. Each of a pair of sleeves is fixedly coupled to one of the bottom edges of the cups. The sleeves each have a first end and a second end. Each of the first ends of the sleeves has an opening therein. Each of a pair of support members is removably insertable in one of the sleeves. Each of the support members is elongate and has a first and second end. Each of the support members is generally arcuate.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device that uses a support member having rounded, convex ends for the comfort of the wearer.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new bust support device that has coverings for enclosing the open ends of the sleeves.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference sh
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