Selective pants and bands for customized assembly
AssigneeCharles River Apparel, Inc.
InventorsBarry Lipsett, Stina Shaw
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Abstract
A product and process involving pants having customized bands or stripes at their sides. The pants include gaps extending down the sides of the legs. A decorative band fits within the gap and is attached by continuous fasteners, such as zippers and/or discrete fasteners, such as snaps. The process comprises acquiring a relatively small inventory of pants of different sizes, acquiring a relatively large inventory of decorative bands of different colors and/or designs, and receiving and fulfilling orders for the customized pants by inserting and attaching the bands within the gaps as needed to fulfill orders.
Claims17
A pants design comprising:
- (a) a body construction including a waist, a trunk, and a pair of legs;
- (b) opposed flanks of said body construction providing a pair of opposed gaps extending substantially from said waist and along said trunk and said legs, said gaps having edges;
- (c) a pair of opposed decorative band constructions having distinguishable color and design, said band constructions having edges;
- (d) said pair of opposed band constructions being registered with said pair of opposed gaps;
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- (e) pairs of opposed mating fasteners for joining said edges of said pairs of band constructions to said edges of said pairs of gaps.
A pants design comprising:
- (a) a body construction including a waist, a trunk, and a pair of legs;
- (b) opposed flanks of said body construction providing a pair of opposed gaps extending substantially from said waist and along said trunk and said legs to lower extremities, said gaps having edges;
- (c) a pair of opposed decorative band constructions having distinguishable color and design, said band constructions having edges;
- (d) said pair of opposed band constructions being registered with said pair of opposed gaps;
- (e) pairs of distributions of opposed mating fasteners for joining the edges of said pairs of band constructions to said edges of said pairs of gaps;
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- (f) flanges extending across said gaps at said lower extremities to positively join forward and rearward regions on opposite sides of said gaps.
An inventory method comprising the steps of:
- (a) acquiring an inventory of body constructions of different sizes, each of said body constructions including a waist, a trunk and a pair of legs, opposed flanks of each of said body constructions providing a pair of opposed gaps extending substantially from said waist and along said trunk and said legs, said gaps having edges;
- (b) acquiring an inventory of band constructions of different colors and designs, said band constructions having edges;
- (c) receiving orders from customers for customized combinations of selections of said body constructions and selections of said band constructions;
- (d) assembling said selections of said body constructions and said selections of said band constructions to provide customized pants pursuant to said orders wherein said band constructions are registered with said gaps and said band constructions are attached to said body constructions by connecting mating pairs of fasteners on said gap edges and said band construction edges;
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- (e) shipping said customized pants to said customers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.