U.S. patent application number 10/579473 was filed with the patent office on 2007-09-27 for menswear garment having a type of athletic support.
This patent application is currently assigned to Schiesser AG. Invention is credited to Werner Blohmann.
Application Number | 20070220661 10/579473 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 34530432 |
Filed Date | 2007-09-27 |
United States Patent
Application |
20070220661 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Blohmann; Werner |
September 27, 2007 |
Menswear Garment Having a Type of Athletic Support
Abstract
(EN) The aim of the invention is to create a pair of men's boxer
shorts (10), which are provided with a front part (11) and a rear
part and with a band (14) running along the front pail and rear
part, in which a certain support during wearing is made possible in
the form of a type of athletic support. To this end, the inside of
the front part (11) is provided with an insert part (30), which
extends on both sides of its longitudinal center and which has a
free edge (36, 37) each facing away from the longitudinal center.
In addition, both free edges (36, 37) are united in or near the
crotch area (17) while forming a trough-like area (39) by the lower
area of the insert part (30).
Inventors: |
Blohmann; Werner; (Aschheim,
DE) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BACON & THOMAS, PLLC
625 SLATERS LANE
FOURTH FLOOR
ALEXANDRIA
VA
22314
US
|
Assignee: |
Schiesser AG
Radolfzell
DE
78315
|
Family ID: |
34530432 |
Appl. No.: |
10/579473 |
Filed: |
December 10, 2004 |
PCT Filed: |
December 10, 2004 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/EP04/14094 |
371 Date: |
January 12, 2007 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/404 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41B 9/023 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
002/404 |
International
Class: |
A41B 9/02 20060101
A41B009/02 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Dec 10, 2003 |
DE |
203 19 359.8 |
Claims
1-10. (canceled)
11. A menswear garment, in particular shorts, such as boxer shorts,
the garment comprising: a front part; a back part; an insert part;
a crotch area; and a waistband having a longitudinal center
extending along said front part and said back part, wherein: said
front part is provided on the inside with said insert part,
extending to both sides of the longitudinal center, which insert
part has two free edges, each extending away from the longitudinal
center; and said two free edges are joined together in or near said
crotch area by the lower region of said insert part, forming a
cuplike receptacle.
12. The menswear garment as defined by claim 11, wherein: said
cuplike receptacle, in the region where said free edges are joined
together, is connected to a securing point near said crotch
area.
13. The menswear garment as defined by claim 12, wherein: said
securing point is formed on a longitudinally extending inseam.
14. The menswear garment as defined by claim 11, wherein: said
insert part is connected at its upper end to said waistband.
15. The menswear garment as defined by claim 11, wherein: said
insert part is approximately the shape of a cup in longitudinal
section or of a pair of briefs.
16. The menswear garment as defined by claim 11 wherein: said
insert part is formed of two identical insert pieces that are
disposed symmetrically to the longitudinal center.
17. The menswear garment as defined by claim 16, wherein: each
insert piece, remote from its free edge, is secured to said front
part near the longitudinal center thereof.
18. The menswear garment as defined by claim 16, wherein: said two
insert pieces are secured to said front part, in the longitudinal
center thereof, to both sides of a concealed fly.
19. The menswear garment as defined by claim 18, wherein: said
concealed fly is provided with a button strip.
20. The menswear garment as defined by claim 11, wherein: said
front and back parts are in one piece; and said back part has a
gore extending from said waistband to said crotch area.
Description
[0001] The present invention relates to a menswear garment, in
particular shorts, such as boxer shorts, as generically defined by
the preamble to claim 1.
[0002] To make known men's shorts easy to wear, the shorts are
formed of a single layer of fabric in both the front and back
parts. Since such shorts, especially boxer shorts, are relatively
wide in the leg and crotch area, many wearers find them unpleasant
or uncomfortable to wear without underwear.
[0003] Shorts are also known, especially for sports and swimming,
whose back and front parts are provided with an insert inside, in
the form of an inner pair of underpants attached only to the
waistband; however, the meshlike insert part, in terms of how it is
cut, is embodied somewhat like a conventional pair of underwear
without an athletic support, so that in this case the insert is
used only as a second, inner layer for the shorts, so that even
with lightweight fabrics, they will not be transparent if the
bathing suit is wet, for instance. Many men find even these shorts
unpleasant to wear, since such shorts lack any kind of athletic
support and the effective hold that would provide, on the one hand,
and on the other they are not lightweight and comfortable to
wear.
[0004] The object of the present invention is to create a menswear
garment, in particular shorts, such as boxer shorts, of the type
defined at the outset, in which a certain hold while they are worn
is made possible by a type of athletic support.
[0005] For attaining this object, in a menswear garment, in
particular shorts, such as boxer shorts, of the type defined at the
outset, the characteristics recited in claim 1 are
contemplated.
[0006] By the provisions according to the invention, an insert part
is created which is shaped somewhat like half of a pair of briefs,
or in other words comprises only a front part, and which therefore,
because of the resultant athletic support, offers the retention or
hold that wearers often want, without losing the advantages of such
shorts or boxer shorts, such as lightness and wearing comfort.
[0007] With the characteristics of claim 2, a fixation of the
cuplike receptacle even in the free edge region on the front part
is attained. It is practical to provide the characteristics in
accordance with claim 3, which make the shorts comfortable to wear
even in the front region or crotch area.
[0008] It is practical that in accordance with the characteristics
of claim 4, the insert part begins at the waistband of the shorts.
Because of the rounding of the waistband that occurs during wearing
and because the free edges of the insert part are joined together,
an advantageous shape which offers the correct hold and the
applicable wearing comfort is attained in accordance with the
characteristics of claim 5.
[0009] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in
accordance with the characteristics of claim 6, the insert part is
formed of two identical insert pieces, arranged in mirror symmetry
to one another, so that the front part is in a double layer only in
the side regions and in the lowermost region. As a result, despite
having this athletic support, the wearing comfort of the shorts
that wearers expect is still preserved.
[0010] A practical variant in terms of production is obtained from
the characteristics of claim 7.
[0011] The aforementioned embodiment with its variant offers the
possibility, in accordance with the characteristics of claim 8, of
providing a concealed fly in such shorts. This fly may be embodied
in accordance with the characteristics of claim 9.
[0012] A further simplification in terms of production and an
advantageous design of the cut are obtained in accordance with the
characteristics of claim 10.
[0013] Further details of the invention can be learned from the
ensuing description, in which the invention is described in further
detail in terms of the exemplary embodiment shown in the
drawings.
[0014] FIG. 1, in a front view partly in perspective, a pair of
men's boxer shorts in a preferred exemplary embodiment of the
present invention; and
[0015] FIG. 2, an inside view of the front part of the men's boxer
shorts of FIG. 1.
[0016] The menswear garment 10 shown in the drawing takes the form
here of a pair of boxer shorts which in accordance with the
invention is equipped with a kind of athletic support. It is
understood that the provisions of the invention to be described
hereinafter can find use not only with boxer shorts but in other
kinds of shorts, such as men's long, lightweight summer shorts.
[0017] The boxer shorts 10, which are made from very lightweight
fabric, have a front part 11 and a back part 12, which merge
laterally in one piece with one another and are solidly connected
at their upper edge 13 to a preferably longitudinally elastic
encompassing waistband 14. The back part 12 is provided in the
longitudinal center with an insert 16, which extends from the
waistband 14 as far as the crotch area 17 of the box shorts 10,
where it is connected or sewn to the front part 11.
[0018] The front part 11, somewhat outside its longitudinal center
28, is provided with a concealed fly 21, which has an inner button
strip 22 with a central button 23 and an outer buttonhole strip 24
with a buttonhole 25. The two strips 22 and 24 cover one another
over a range of several centimeters and are sewn both to the
waistband 14 and to one another, in a lower region 26 at a certain
distance from the crotch area 17.
[0019] The front part 11, on its inside, has an insert part 30,
which extends to both sides of the longitudinal center 28 of the
front part 11 or in other words of the boxer shorts 10. The insert
part 30 comprises two pieces or insert pieces 31 and 32, which are
cut and embodied identically and are disposed to both sides of the
concealed fly 21. Both insert pieces 31 and 32 are connected or
sewn to the waistband 14 at their upper end 33. Each inner
longitudinal edge 34, facing toward the concealed fly 21 and
extending parallel to it, is connected or sewn to the front part
11. The two insert pieces 31 and 32 each have a free longitudinal
edge 36 and 37, respectively, which faces away from the concealed
fly 21. These two free longitudinal edges 36 and 37, beginning at
the waistband 14, each extend obliquely to the longitudinal center
28 in the direction of the crotch area 17. The two free
longitudinal edges 36 and 37 run toward one another and are sewn to
one another at their lower ends 38. Because of this cut, the two
free longitudinal edges 36 and 37, when the box shorts 10 are being
worn, extend toward one another, because of the curvature of the
waistband 14, in such a way as to form a cuplike receptacle 39 in
the connecting region 38' of the insert pieces 31 and 32. In other
words, this insert part 30 results in a shape approximately
equivalent to a cup in longitudinal section. In this way, the
cuplike receptacle 39 forms an athletic support on the inside of
the boxer shorts 10, and the essential part of this athletic
support 39 is located in a region just below the end of the
concealed fly 21.
[0020] The connecting region 38 of the two free longitudinal edges
36 and 37 is connected to a point 41 of the front part 11 that is
located approximately between the lower end of the concealed fly 21
and the crotch area 17. More precisely, this point 41 is located at
a site of the inseam 42 extending in the longitudinal center 28. As
a result, the crotch area or the side regions of the leg openings
18 and 19 are raised somewhat, which contributes to making the
boxer shorts 10 light and comfortable to wear.
[0021] Since the two insert pieces 31 and 32 of the insert part are
located to both sides of the concealed fly 21, the athletic support
39 is demarcated from the front part 11 of the boxer shorts 10 only
to both sides of the concealed fly 21 and only there does it form a
second layer.
[0022] In this way, a pair of boxer shorts 10 is created which is
provided on the inside with an athletic support 39 shaped like half
of a pair of briefs, comprising only a front part.
[0023] The material of the two insert pieces 31 and 32 differs from
the lightweight material used for the boxer shorts 10 in that it is
for instance softer and more absorbent.
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