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US 11,627,764 B1Granted
Upper body shaper garment
AssigneeMINDD, Inc.
InventorHelena Kaylin
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include an upper body shaper garment for women. The garment contours the breasts and other aspects of the chest area into a fashionable form by delivering distinct amount of compression force at select areas of the garment. In various embodiments, the shaper garment includes a support area covering the breasts and a shaping area including one or more compression zones for moving the support area to enhance the appearance of the wearer. The shaper garment may be knitted from one continuous piece of fabric with the compression areas knitted directly into the base layer. The shaper garment may also include one or more transition zones between the areas and/or zones of the garment to smoothly transition between different areas and/or zones.
Claims14
An upper body shaper garment comprising:
- a 3D knit structure knitted as one layer of continuous material devoid of seams and wires, comprising:
- two cup portions configured to cover breasts of a wearer;
- a bottom band directly below the two cup portions, the bottom band configured to extend across a chest area of the wearer beneath the breasts;
- a back portion connecting to each of the two cup portions and the bottom band via a wing configured to be located on each side of the chest area of the wearer, each wing including a medium compression zone that extends from a bottom peripheral edge of a cup portion, of the two cup portions, adaptively to a midpoint on a flank of the wearer, the medium compression zone configured to push a side portion of each breast away from an upper flank of the wearer toward a midpoint of the chest area;
- a triangular anchor knitted into a center of the upper body shaper garment between the two cup portions and above the bottom band in a high compression zone, wherein the triangular anchor includes a greater stitch density having a number of stitches that exceeds the number of stitches in other portions of the upper body shaper garment;
- wherein each cup portion includes:
- a support area configured to tightly fit over each breast and configured to capture an upper middle portion of each breast, the support area controlling movement of an upper section of each cup portion;
- a shaping area directly below the support area and extending down from a bottom section of each cup portion to the bottom band,
- the shaping area including a plurality of compression zones each knitted into each cup portion, the plurality of compression zones compressing a bottom section of the cup portion to lift the support area above from the bottom band and push the support area out and adaptively away from a body of the wearer;
- and wherein:
- each compression zone of the plurality of compression zones has a unique stitch density defining a number of stitches per area of material within a particular compression zone;
- and
- the plurality of compression zones comprises at least three compression zones including a tightest compression zone, a high compression zone, and low compression zone;
- and
- a 3D network of stitches at a first transition area at an intersection of the shaping area and the support area, wherein the 3D network of stitches are arranged in an x, y, and z direction away from the wearer to form auxetic properties on the one layer of continuous material, positioned between the plurality of compression zones, and are further configured to adapt to the body of the wearer;
- a second transition area between the tightest compression zone and the high compression zone, a third transition area between the high compression zone and the low compression zone, and a fourth transition area between the low compression zone and the medium compression zone;
- wherein,
- the second transition area comprises a second stitch gradient that gradually decreases a stitch density specifying a number of stitches knitted into an area of material from a third stitch density of the tightest compression zone to a fourth stitch density of the high compression zone;
- the third transition area comprises a third stitch gradient that gradually decreases the stitch density from the fourth stitch density of the high compression zone to a fifth stitch density of the low compression zone;
- and
- the fourth transition area compresses a fourth stitch gradient that gradually increases the stitch density from the fifth stitch density of the low compression zone to a sixth stitch density of the medium compression zone.
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A breast shaping system comprising:
- a 3D knit structure knitted as one layer of continuous material devoid of seams and wires comprising:
- two cup portions and a wing integrated into an upper body shaper garment;
- a support area configured to fit tightly over each breast of a wearer and capturing an upper middle portion of each breast, the support area controlling movement of an upper section of each of the two cup portions;
- a triangular anchor knitted into a center of the upper body shaper garment between the two cup portions and above a bottom band in a high compression zone, wherein the triangular anchor includes a greater stitch density having a number of stitches that exceeds the number of stitches in other portions of the upper body shaper garment;
- a shaping area directly below the support area and extending down from a bottom section of each of the two cup portions to the bottom band,
- the shaping area including a plurality of compression zones knitted into each of the two cup portions, the plurality of compression zones compressing a bottom section of each of the two cup portions to lift the support area above from the bottom band and push the support area out and away from a body of a wearer;
- a 3D network of stitches at a first transition area at an intersection of the shaping area and the support area, wherein the 3D network of stitches are arranged in an x, y, and z direction away from the wearer to form auxetic properties and configured to adapt to the body of the wearer;
- and
- a second transition area between a tightest compression zone and a high compression zone, a third transition area between the high compression zone and a low compression zone, and a fourth transition area between the low compression zone and a medium compression zone;
- wherein the second transition area comprises a second stitch gradient that gradually decreases a stitch density specifying a number of stitches knitted into an area of material from a third stitch density of the tightest compression zone to a fourth stitch density of the high compression zone;
- wherein the third transition area comprises a third stitch gradient that gradually decreases the stitch density from the fourth stitch density of the high compression zone to a fifth stitch density of the low compression zone;
- and
- wherein the fourth transition area compresses a fourth stitch gradient that gradually increases the stitch density from the fifth stitch density of the low compression zone to a sixth stitch density of the medium compression zone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.