Foundation garments – Breast or chest – e.g. – brassieres – With inflatable or liquid-containing chambers
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-09
2002-05-28
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3765)
Foundation garments
Breast or chest, e.g., brassieres
With inflatable or liquid-containing chambers
C450S001000, C607S108000, C607S104000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06394879
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to brassieres and more particularly pertains to a new postpartum brassiere for providing comfort to the breasts of a mother who does not breast-feed.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of brassieres is known in the prior art. More specifically, brassieres 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. 5,679,052; U.S. Pat. No. 2,298,361; U.S. Pat. No. 3,698,399; U.S. Pat. No. 3,518,998; U.S. Pat. No. 1,391,936; and U.S. Des. Pat. No. 258,532.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new postpartum brassiere. The inventive device includes a panel having an inner surface, an outer surface, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. A fastening member removably fastens the outer surface adjacent to the first side edge to the inner surface adjacent to the second side edge. The panel comprises a cloth material. The panel has a first section abutting the first side edge, a second section abutting the second side edge and a middle section positioned between the first and second sections. Each of a pair of pockets is attached to the inner surface of the panel and positioned on the middle section. Each of a pair of gel packs is positionable in one of the pockets.
In these respects, the postpartum brassiere 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 providing comfort to the breasts of a mother who does not breast feed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of brassieres now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new postpartum brassiere construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing comfort to the breasts of a mother who does not breast feed.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new postpartum brassiere apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the brassieres mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new postpartum brassiere which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art brassieres, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a panel having an inner surface, an outer surface, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. A fastening member removably fastens the outer surface adjacent to the first side edge to the inner surface adjacent to the second side edge. The panel comprises a cloth material. The panel has a first section abutting the first side edge, a second section abutting the second side edge and a middle section positioned between the first and second sections. Each of a pair of pockets is attached to the inner surface of the panel and positioned on the middle section. Each of a pair of gel packs is positionable in one of the 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 postpartum brassiere apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the brassieres mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new postpartum brassiere which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art brassieres, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new postpartum brassiere which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new postpartum brassiere which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new postpartum brassiere 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 postpartum brassiere economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new postpartum brassiere 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 postpartum brassiere for providing comfort to the breasts of a mother who does not breast feed.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new postpartum brassiere which includes a panel having an inner surface, an outer surface, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. A fastening member removably fastens the outer surface adjacent to the first side edge to the inner surface adjacent to the second side edge. The panel comprises a cloth material. The panel has a first section abutting the first side edge, a second section abutting the second side edge and a middle section positioned between the first and second sections. Each of a pair of pockets is attached to the inner surface of the panel and positioned on the middle section. Each of a pair of gel packs is positionable in one of the pockets.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new postpartum brassiere that provides cooling relief and pressure to the breasts of a wearer.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new postpartum brassiere that FOCUSED2.
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
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