Apparel – Nether garments – Bifurcated
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-04
2001-02-06
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Nether garments
Bifurcated
C002S238000, C002S069000, C450S099000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182297
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to athletic shorts and more particularly pertains to a new lower torso shape enhancing garment for changing the appearance of a portion of the wearers body.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of athletic shorts is known in the prior art. More specifically, athletic shorts 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. 5,103,505; U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,571; U.S. Pat. No. 4,805,243; U.S. Pat. No. 5,271,101; U.S. Pat. No. 5,551,082; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 205,287.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new lower torso shape enhancing garment. The inventive device includes a short pant for covering a lower portion of a torso of a wearer and an upper portion of the legs of the wearer. The short pant comprises a front portion for covering a portion of the front of the torso of the wearer. A rear portion is for covering a portion of the rear of the torso of the wearer including the buttocks of the wearer. A pair of leg portions extend downwardly from the front and rear portions. A crotch area is located between the leg portions. The short pant comprises an upper opening defined by a waistband for positioning adjacent the waist of the wearer. The short pant comprises a pair of lower leg openings. The short pant comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface. A pair of rear pockets are formed in the short pant. The pockets are formed at laterally spaced locations on the rear portion of the short pant to position each of the pockets over a buttock of the wearer. Each of the pockets comprises an upper entry slit, spaced side boundaries, and a lower boundary. The upper entry slit opens into the interior surface of the short pant just below the upper opening. Each of a pair of rear contour inserts are removably insertable in one of the pair of rear pockets.
In these respects, the lower torso shape enhancing garment 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 changing the appearance of a portion of the wearers body.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of athletic shorts now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new lower torso shape enhancing garment construction wherein the same can be utilized for changing the appearance of a portion of the wearers body.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new lower torso shape enhancing garment apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the athletic shorts mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new lower torso shape enhancing garment which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art athletic shorts, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a short pant for covering a lower portion of a torso of a wearer and an upper portion of the legs of the wearer. The short pant comprises a front portion for covering a portion of the front of the torso of the wearer. A rear portion is for covering a portion of the rear of the torso of the wearer including the buttocks of the wearer. A pair of leg portions extend downwardly from the front and rear portions. A crotch area is located between the leg portions. The short pant comprises an upper opening defined by a waistband for positioning adjacent the waist of the wearer. The short pant comprises a pair of lower leg openings. The short pant comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface. A pair of rear pockets are formed in the short pant. The pockets are formed at laterally spaced locations on the rear portion of the short pant to position each of the pockets over a buttock of the wearer. Each of the pockets comprises an upper entry slit, spaced side boundaries, and a lower boundary. The upper entry slit opens into the interior surface of the short pant just below the upper opening. Each of a pair of rear contour inserts are removably insertable in one of the pair of rear pockets.
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 lower torso shape enhancing garment apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the athletic shorts mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new lower torso shape enhancing garment which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art athletic shorts, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new lower torso shape enhancing garment which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new lower torso shape enhancing garment which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new lower torso shape enhancing garment 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 lower torso shape enhancing garment economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new lower torso shape enhancing garment 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 lower torso shape e
Duren Michael T.
Franklin James L.
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