# US 4,393,522 A · Ankle garter with foot stirrup

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- Number: US 4,393,522 A
- Document ID: US4393522A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/327,275
- Filed: 1981-12-04
- Granted: 1983-07-19
- Earliest claimed: 1981-12-04
- Inventors: Diane M. Calabrese
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4393522A

## CPC

- A41F 17/00: Means for holding-down garments
- Y10S 2/92: Garment supporter or retainer having a hook-loop type fastener
- A41F: GARMENT FASTENINGS; SUSPENDERS
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

## 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

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.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The article of claim 1 wherein said fuzz portion extends from said one free end of said garter band to the point of connection of the adjacent stirrup leg to said garter band and said hook portion extends from said other free end of said garter band to the point of connection of the other of said stirrup legs to said garter band.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The article of claim 2 wherein said stirrup legs are affixed to the inner face of said garter band.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The article of claim 1 and an ornamental indicator on the outer face of said garter band adjacent said one free end of said garter band for visual location of the area to be pressed for closure or pulled for opening of said garter band.