Nursing brassiere garment
OwnerJillaine Bee Forceinventor
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Abstract
This invention relates to a brassiere garment for use in nursing. The brassiere garment is constructed as a garment. The brassiere garment portion of the garment has adequate support and is provided with cups which can be opened and closed without having to unfasten a brassiere garment from a wearer. The cups fit snugly enough to hold breast pads in place. The garment portion is aesthetically pleasing. Thus the invention provides a garment which is self sufficient, not requiring a bra.
Claims10
A nursing brassiere garment for use when nursing a baby that supports a pair of breasts, constructed of fabric that is appropriate to be worn in a public place comprising:
- a pair of close fitting breast cup panels to hold up and secure a pair of breasts;
- a front yoke panel above said breast cup panels and attached to a shoulder strap on an upper edge and along a horizontal center seam on a lower edge;
- a top back panel extending across a wearer's upper back and joined together on vertical side line seams of attachment under the wearer's arms to said breast cup panels:
- a set of shoulder straps attached in the front of said garment above said breast cup panels to hold said breast cup panels up and which go over a wearers' shoulders offering lift and support for said wearer's breast and another end of each of said shoulder straps attached at an upper edge of said top back panel in the back of said garment;
- an elastic band for snugly circling around said wearer's torso horizontally providing extra support for said wearer's breast to help eliminate or minimize sagging;
- said elastic and is attached directly below said breast cup panels in the front and to a lower edge of said top back panel in the back;
- a midriff panel for covering a woman's midriff thereby protecting a woman's modesty while wearing the nursing brassiere garment in public and which extends downwardly covering a wearer's torso and wherein said midriff panel is attached around a lower horizontal edge of said elastic band;
- a bottom back panel for covering the wearer's lower back and which is joined to said midriff panel on vertical side line seams with attachment under the wearer's arms:
- wherein said nursing brassiere garment is constructed of an appropriate fabric for conventional exterior garment wear to be worn in a public place ad which has at least 5% elasticized material content therein and wherein it is stretchable in at least one direction so as to enable a pair of breasts to expand and contract as is common in lactating breasts;
- and wherein said breast cup panels include an access opening therein or between said yoke panels and said breast cup panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.