Wire reinforcement for women's clothing
AssigneeNV Bekaert SA
InventorsFilip Acx, Ludo Adriaensen, Paul Balcaen
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Abstract
A wire reinforcement for women's garments designed to support the breasts exhibits an axial cross section with a long axis and a short axis perpendicular to the long axis. The long axis has a length, and the short axis has a center thickness which is smaller than half of the length. Along the long axis, the cross section has a left end with a left thickness and a right end with a right thickness. Both the left thickness and the right thickness are substantially greater than the center thickness. Such a wire reinforcement is very rigid in the direction of the long axis and is flexible in the other directions and in relation to torsional stresses.
Claims4
A method for producing a wire reinforcement for women's garments designed to support the breasts, said method comprising the following steps:
- cold drawing a wire to its final diameter;
- rolling the cold-drawn wire into a flat wire;
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- profile rolling the flat wire into a rounded I-shaped wire reinforcement, said profile rolling creating a flat portion in a center of the cross-section of the flat wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.