Brassiere frame members
OwnerGerhard Fildaninventor
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Abstract
An underwire for an underwire brassier has a metal wire bow provided at one end with a stitching flange and preferably formed at the other end with an elastomeric tip. A double-cup frame for the underwire brassiere has an inverted U-shaped bridge piece whose shanks receive the ends of plastic coated underwires. The shanks are connected unitarily by a bight which is flattened and can be grooved to increase flexibility. Upon twisting of the bight, the two underwires can be superposed, thereby increasing the flexibility of the frame and a brassiere in which the frame is incorporated.
Claims20
A double-cup support frame for a brassiere comprising a pair of arcuate resilient underwires adapted to be received in respective margins below cups of a brassiere and a separate inverted-U bridge piece having shanks each receiving one end of each of said underwires and affixed thereto, said shanks being formed in one piece with a flat bight normally coplanar with said underwires and intrinsically flexible and elastically deformable to enable one of said underwires to be folded over the other of said underwires.
An underwire for a brassiere, adapted to be received in a channel beneath a cup of the brassiere and to be stitched to fabric of the brassiere at at least one end of the underwire, said underwire comprising:
- a metal bow having a pair of ends and of flattened cross section;
- a first injection-molded tip formed on one of said ends;
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- a second injection molded tip formed on another of said ends, said tips being selected from:
- a stitching flange tip having a stitching flange extending beyond a respective end of the metal wire and adapted to be stitched through to said fabric, and
- a flexible elastomeric tip having a deflectable portion extending beyond a respective end of the metal bow.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.