Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Having gripping member formed from – biased by – or mounted on...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-21
2001-10-23
Sandy, Robert J. (Department: 3626)
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on...
C024S200000, C024S199000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06305056
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Technical Field of the Invention
The invention concerns a device for adjusting the width of the waistband of a skirt or a pair of trousers. The inventive device has a U-shaped clip which slides on to the waistband perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of said waistband. Said clip consists of two limbs. Said limbs are interconnected on the top side and run essentially parallel to each other. The waistband is arranged in a fold.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Such devices are known, for instance, from the German patent 221 474. This patent discloses a waistband that is guided through the limbs of the clip in a fold and is affixed inside the garment by means of a clamp. It is foreseen to attach the clip to the garment. This allows the flexible adjustment of the width of a waistband. The disadvantage thereby is that the clamped fold can move over time owing to the movements of the person wearing the trousers or skirt, or the waistband becomes threadbare over time at the point of clamping. Moreover, the clamp is located entirely inside the waistband and can be unpleasantly bulky. Furthermore, the fold of the waistband is visible externally, which is rather negative in appearance. By virtue of the fact that the clip is to be attached to the garment it cannot be used for a variety of trousers or skirts.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
By way of contrast the invention has the object of providing a device of this generic concept which essentially functions without a clamping effect, is not unpleasantly bulky inside the waistband, can be used on a variety of trousers and skirts and an arising fold is not visible externally, if necessary.
This task is solved therein that the fold is formed in that said waistband passes by the clip, essentially parallel thereto, first to one limb of the clip. The waistband loops around said first limb before running back in the opposite direction, between the two limbs of the clip, to the other limb. It loops around said second limb before being finally guided back in the opposite direction. Each side of the clip is also provided with an arm which extends vertically. Said arms are provided near the plane defined by the clip and fit on the respective outside flank of the fold on the side facing away from the clip.
The position of the plane defined by the clip depends essentially on the shape of the clip. If, for example, the limbs of the clips are pins that extend vertically, it is a plane in which the U-shape lies. By way of contrast, if the limbs are parallel plates, which are aligned perpendicularly to the plane defined by the U, a plane, which is defined by the clip, extends parallel to the plates. The outside flanks of the fold are the pieces in which the waistband runs away from the limbs of the clips and as a rule on the outside of the clip. In any case the clip should fit so that the waistband is arranged on the segments, on which it runs away from the clip, essentially parallel to the plane defined by the clip.
The clip is fitted on to the waistband so that one limb is located inside and the other limb outside. It is then turned on the waistband about a vertical axis until the waistband is arranged in the form of the fold described. To prevent the clip from turning back, it must be affixed in relation to the waistband. The clip does not require a clamping effect, and only one of the arms must be disposed inside the waistband, between the waistband and the waist. To that end, the arms can be disposed on the clip, in particular integrally moulded or provided on an element that is separated from the clip. For instance, one arm can be one of the two limbs of a clasp. Here one limb encompasses an outside flank and the other limb is affixed, if necessary, to the clip or to a waistband piece. The two arms can also be fitted to one single clasp if, for example, they encompass the two outside flanks as arms directed downwards from the top side of the clip.
However, preferred is the use of a holder which contains the two arms and encompasses the clip, including the fold, on both sides of the plane defined by the clip. The outside flanks of the fold are guided out of the holder on opposing sides. The shape of the holder should be such that the clip with fold inside cannot be rotated about a vertical axis. Such a holder not only holds the outside flanks proximate to the clip plane but also covers the clip, which perhaps does not look particularly attractive, and the fold of the waistband. The outside surfaces of the holder can be accordingly designed in optical terms. The holder can then be fitted, for example, by sliding it on to the clip from above.
To enable the variable adjustment of the width, more than two limbs can also be fitted to the clip. Different pairs of limbs can then define different planes of the clip. Depending on the desired shortening, the corresponding limbs are selected and the clip affixed correspondingly twisted. If necessary, the waistband can also loop around more than two of the limbs of the clip. An inventive device wears especially well if several limbs are disposed approximately in one plane. The extension of the clip perpendicularly to the waistband is then relatively small so that the device is less bulky.
Preferred, however, is the disposal of the limbs on two plates that extend parallel to each other. The U-shape of the clip is yielded here perpendicularly to the plates. The waistband runs first on the exterior side of one plate, then loops around a limb of this plate and is guided into the interior space between the plates, runs there along in the opposite direction a way, in turn loops around a limb of the other plate and finally is guided in the opposite direction along the other plate. In order that the waistband can loop around the lateral limitation of a plate, the lateral limitation lines of the plates should as far as possible extend vertically. One plate respectively can be formed by one or more limbs, which are spaced apart from one another respectively by a vertical slot. For shortening, the clip is placed on to the waistband so that the waistband is enclosed by the two plates, and twists on a vertical axis about 180°.
The waistband can only be shorted variably if at least one of the plates comprises a plurality of limbs. A relatively large shortening of the waistband is achieved if it is guided along the plates across their entire extension. A lesser shortening is obtained if the waistband is guided through a slot of the plate instead of around the exterior side of the plate. The clip is fitted thereto so that the waistband runs on a piece between the two plates and is guided out of the interior space on one side through a slot. After turning around a vertical axis by 180° in the corresponding direction, one obtains the desired result. Turning by 180° in the opposing direction results in a greater shortening of the waistband.
Preferably both plates are subdivided, which also makes the clip lighter. As far as possible, the limbs are disposed on the plates so as to be equidistant, for the device is simple to handle if the waistband can be shortened or extended at the same distances in relation to any position. If all limbs are of the same length, the clip can be designed with a minimum vertical extension.
A clip which is formed by two plates is preferably affixed in the way described via a holder. Such a holder can be composed of two shell surfaces connected on the top side. In order that the clip, including the fold, of the waistband find room inside the holder, the interior distance between the shell surfaces should be greater across a length, which corresponds at feast to the extension of the plates in the longitudinal direction of the waistband, than the extension of the clip perpendicularly to the plates plus twice the thickness of the waistband disposed on the exterior sides of the plates. The extension of the holder in the direction perpendicularly to the waistband can be smaller if the shell surfaces are disposed essentially parallel to each other. To affix the clip inside t
Sandy Robert J.
Schindler Edwin D.
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