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US 8,024,819 B2Granted
Weighted undergarment
OwnerElizabeth Gearhartinventor
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Abstract
The invention prevents leg chafing, and keeps the garment from riding up in the wearer's crotch area, by disposing weights on the garment. If the garment is an undergarment, then Modal® fabric, a bio-based fiber made by spinning reconstituted cellulose from beech trees, is especially preferred, as it is extremely soft, and wicks away moisture in an effective manner. It is an object of the invention to reduce leg chafing. It is a further object of the invention to teach a method of preventing garments from riding up into the wearer's crotch area.
Claims11
A garment to be worn on a wearer's body, comprising:
- a pant having:
- left front and back panels and right front and back panels joined so as to provide a left pant leg and a right pant leg, each with a lower pant leg end such that, when said pant is worn by a wearer having a wearer's body waist substantially equal in diameter to a waist of said pant, said lower pant leg ends are disposed above a wearer's knee, and below a wearer's crotch area at least one third of a distance from said wearer's crotch area to said wearer's knee;
- left and right pockets situated proximate to said respective lower pant leg ends;
- and
- left and right weights contained in said pockets such that said weights extend horizontally from adjacent to a vicinity of a mid-point of a wearer's thigh front, to a vicinity of a join between said front and back panels on each corresponding one of said pant legs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.