US 4,393,522 AGranted

Ankle garter with foot stirrup

OwnerDiane M. Calabreseinventor

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Abstract

An article to hold the bottom of trouser or pants legs in place to allow for ease of insertion in a sock, boot or the like. The article includes an open ended garter band including a longitudinally stretchable portion, a generally U-shaped longitudinally stretchable stirrup depending from the garter band and mating fuzz and hook members of the VELCRO fastener type on opposite faces of the free end portions of the garter band. The stirrup is looped around the arch of the foot and the garter band is wrapped around the pants leg above its bottom edge and adjacent the ankle where the free end portions are pressed together to close the ankle garter band whereby the fuzz and hook members engage. The garter can be opened by pulling the overlapped ends apart.

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Dependent claims

An article to hold a pants leg in place on the foot for ease of insertion into a sock, boot or the like comprising an open ended garter band adapted to adjustably wrap around the bottom of the pants adjacent the ankle of the foot, a U-shaped longitudinally elastic stirrup having legs affixed to said garter band inwardly of the free ends of said garter band, the length of said garter band between the points on connection of said stirrup legs to said garter band being longitudinally elastic, and means at the opposite faces of said garter band adjacent its free ends mating by finger pressure to releasably close said garter band, said means including a fuzz portion on the inner face of said garter band adjacent one free end thereof and a mating hook portion on the outer face of said garter band adjacent its other end whereby when said ends are overlapped and pressed together said fuzz and hook portions will releasably interengage.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.