Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Combined diverse multipart fasteners – Clasp
Patent
1995-02-28
1997-05-27
Cuomo, Peter M.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Combined diverse multipart fasteners
Clasp
24333, 24504, 24541, A44B 104
Patent
active
056320698
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a garment support device to keep a first lower body covering garment such as trousers, a skirt, shorts or the like in place by affixing this first garment to a second upper body covering garment such as a shirt, blouse or the like, said device comprising an elongate rigid sheet-like base or basic element less than 15 cm. long and fitted at one end with a fastener designed to be affixed to a section of the second garment located in the first garment.
RELATED ART
Such devices are used to replace braces. Braces keep up trousers very well and therefore are often preferred to belts, especially by persons who move a lot or who are stout. However, braces are not aesthetic.
Such a device is already known from the French patent document A2,357,195. This device comprises a base or basic element consisting of a clip leg and an extension of said leg. The fastener is a dip movably attached to a shirt or the like. The shirt extension engages or hooks onto a strap or a pocket present below the upper belt rim of the trousers and inside said belt.
In order to be able to use the known device, straps or pockets must be provided, in other words the trousers must be specially made.
The invention aims to remedy these disadvantages and to provide a device to keep trousers, a skirt, shorts or the like in place, which keeps the garment efficiently up without it having to be provided with straps or pockets, whereby the device can be worn such that only a part of the device is visible, a part which may be very inconspicuous or on the contrary well visible but which looks very nice or aesthetic.
For that purpose the rigid base or basic element is fired at its end opposite the fastener with a clip designed to be affixed to the waistband of the first garment, one leg of this clip being rigidly joined to or integral with the base element, the other movable leg of the dip pointing in the direction of the end of the basic element bearing the fastener when the dip is dosed in such a way that when the dip is affixed to the waist band of the first garment, the fastener on the opposite end can be located inside the first garment and be affixed to a section of the second garment located inside the first garment.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,958,643 describes a device with a rigid basic element comprising at one end a first clip of which one let is rigidly joined to the basic element and at the other end a second clip. However, the movable leg of the first clip points outward, in other words, when this clip is affixed to the rim of trousers, the device shall be outside them and be visible almost entirely. The other dip is affixed in pivoting manner to the basic element and comprises two legs perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said basic element. This dip is used for affixation to the front rim of a shirt above the trousers.
The German patent document no. U.S. Pat. No. 8,509,839 also discloses a device with a rigid basic element comprising a clip at both ends, one leg of these clips being an integral part of the basic element. The mobile legs of these clips are directed in the opposite sense. When a clip is attached on the waistband of a pair of trousers, said device is consequently situated outside the trousers and is thus visible. In fact, this device is an improved embodiment of a clip for braces, as the device is used to be attached to a brace belt by means of one of its clips. Moreover, the basic element is provided with slits to insert this belt in.
According to a special embodiment of the invention, the fastening means is also a clip.
Practically, one of the legs of the clip forming the fastening means is solid with or forms an integral part of the rigid basic element.
The legs of the two clips are then preferably directed in one and the same sense in closed position.
The mobile legs of the two clips are preferably situated on one and the same side of the rigid element.
The top clip which serves to be clipped on the waistband of the trousers, skirt, shorts or the like can be larger tha
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Cuomo Peter M.
Tran Hanh V.
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