U.S. patent application number 12/455225 was filed with the patent office on 2010-12-02 for expandable clothing.
Invention is credited to Cheng Han Huang.
Application Number | 20100299804 12/455225 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 43218516 |
Filed Date | 2010-12-02 |
United States Patent
Application |
20100299804 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Huang; Cheng Han |
December 2, 2010 |
Expandable clothing
Abstract
An expandable clothing includes two cloth members, and an
expandable element secured between the cloth members and having a
resilience greater than that of the cloth members for allowing the
clothing to be expanded to fit various users having different sizes
or dimensions. The clothing may be selected from pants, trousers,
skirts or shorts, sweaters, shirts, jackets or coats or the like
having two tubular pant-legs or two sleeves for accommodating or
receiving the legs or the feet, or the hands of the users. The
expandable elements may be attached to the inner portions or the
side portions of the pant-legs or the sleeves, or attached to the
rear portion of the coat.
Inventors: |
Huang; Cheng Han; (Taipei,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
CHARLES E. BAXLEY, ESQUIRE
90 JOHN STREET, SUITE 309
NEW YORK
NY
10038
US
|
Family ID: |
43218516 |
Appl. No.: |
12/455225 |
Filed: |
May 30, 2009 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/93 ; 2/115;
2/125; 2/227; 2/243.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 2300/22 20130101;
A41D 1/06 20130101; A41D 27/10 20130101; A41D 15/00 20130101; A41D
3/02 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
2/93 ; 2/227;
2/125; 2/115; 2/243.1 |
International
Class: |
A41D 3/02 20060101
A41D003/02; A41D 1/06 20060101 A41D001/06; A41D 27/10 20060101
A41D027/10; A41B 1/00 20060101 A41B001/00; A41D 27/00 20060101
A41D027/00 |
Claims
1. An expandable clothing comprising: two cloth members, and an
expandable element secured between said cloth members and including
a resilience greater than that of said cloth members for allowing
said clothing to be expanded to fit various users having different
sizes or dimensions.
2. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said
clothing is a pant having two tubular pant-legs and having said
cloth members provided on a front portion and a rear portion of
said pant-legs.
3. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 2, wherein said
expandable elements are attached to inner portions of said
pant-legs and secured between said cloth members.
4. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 2, wherein said pant
includes an upper portion, and an expandable segment extended in
said upper portion of said pant.
5. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 2, wherein said
expandable elements are attached to side portions of said pant-legs
and secured between said cloth members.
6. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said
clothing is a shirt having said expandable elements attached to
side portions and secured between said cloth members.
7. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 6, wherein said
shirt includes two sleeves, and an expandable segment extended to
each of said sleeves for allowing said sleeves to be expanded to
fit various users having different hand sizes or dimensions.
8. The expandable clothing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said
clothing is a coat having said expandable element attached to a
rear portion thereof.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to an expandable garment or
pant or clothing, and more particularly to an expandable garment or
pant or clothing including one or more expandable components or
portions for allowing the garment or pant or clothing to be
suitably retracted or expanded to fit various users having
different sizes or dimensions.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] Typical garments, clothing, clothes, pants, or the like
comprise a clothing body for receiving and for engaging onto the
upper portions or the lower portions of the users, and comprise one
or more tubular sleeves, pant-legs for accommodating or receiving
the hands, the legs or the feet of the users.
[0005] Normally, the clothing body and the tubular sleeves and the
pant-legs include a predetermined size or dimension for fitting or
for engaging with the users of a predetermined size or dimension,
but may not be provided for fitting or for engaging with the users
of different sizes or dimensions.
[0006] However, the users may have different buttock portions, leg
portions, hip portions, portions, groin portions, inguinal
portions, chest portions, shoulder portions, or other portions that
include different sizes or dimensions, such that the clothing or
clothes having the same neck size or dimension may not fit all of
the users, and the pants having the same waist size or dimension
also may not fit all of the users.
[0007] The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate
the afore-described disadvantages of the conventional garments,
clothing, clothes, or pants. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0008] The primary objective of the present invention is to provide
an expandable clothing including one or more expandable components
or tubular portions for allowing the clothing to be suitably
retracted or expanded to fit various users having different sizes
or dimensions.
[0009] The other objective of the present invention is to provide
an expandable clothing selected from pants, trousers, skirts or
shorts, sweaters, shirts, jackets or coats or the like having two
tubular pant-legs or two sleeves for accommodating or receiving the
legs or the feet, or the hands of the users, and having the
expandable elements for allowing the pant-legs or the sleeves to be
expanded to fit various users having different leg or buttock or
hand or arm sizes or dimensions.
[0010] In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is
provided an expandable clothing comprising two cloth members, and
an expandable element secured between the cloth members and
including a resilience greater than that of the cloth members for
allowing the clothing to be expanded to fit various users having
different sizes or dimensions.
[0011] The clothing may be selected from a pant having two tubular
pant-legs and having the cloth members provided on a front portion
and a rear portion of the pant-legs. The expandable elements are
attached to inner portions of the pant-legs and secured between the
cloth members.
[0012] The pant includes an upper portion, and an expandable
segment extended in the upper portion of the pant. The expandable
elements are attached to side portions of the pant-legs and secured
between the cloth members.
[0013] The clothing may be selected from a shirt having the
expandable elements attached to side portions and secured between
the cloth members. The shirt includes two sleeves, and an
expandable segment extended to each of the sleeves for allowing the
sleeves to be expanded to fit various users having different hand
sizes or dimensions.
[0014] The clothing may be selected from a coat having the
expandable element attached to a rear portion thereof for allowing
the coat to be expanded to fit various users having different body
sizes or dimensions.
[0015] Further objectives and advantages of the present invention
will become apparent from a careful reading of the detailed
description provided hereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the
accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0016] FIG. 1 is a front plan schematic view of an expandable
clothing in accordance with the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 2 is a rear plan schematic view of the expandable
clothing;
[0018] FIG. 3 is a partial plan schematic view of the expandable
clothing as seen from lines 3-3 of FIG. 2;
[0019] FIG. 4 is a front plan schematic view illustrating the other
application or arrangement of the expandable clothing;
[0020] FIG. 5 is a rear plan schematic view of the expandable
clothing as shown in FIG. 4;
[0021] FIG. 6 is a side plan schematic view illustrating the
further application or arrangement of the expandable clothing;
[0022] FIG. 7 is a front plan schematic view illustrating the still
further application or arrangement of the expandable clothing;
[0023] FIG. 8 is a side plan schematic view of the expandable
clothing as shown in FIG. 7; and
[0024] FIG. 9 is a rear plan schematic view illustrating the still
further application or arrangement of the expandable clothing.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0025] Referring to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1-9, an
expandable clothing 1 in accordance with the present invention may
be selected from any suits, dresses or clothing members, such as
trousers or pants 10 (FIGS. 1-5), skirts or shorts 40 (FIG. 6),
sweaters, shirts 50 (FIGS. 7-8), jackets or coats 60 (FIG. 9), or
the like, for example, as shown in FIGS. 1-5, the pant 10 of the
clothing 1 comprises a pant body or an upper portion 11, and two
tubular pant-legs 12, 13 extended outwardly from the upper portion
11 of the pant 10 for receiving the legs or the feet of the users,
and the pant-legs 12, 13 each include two primary cloth members 14,
16; 15, 17, such as a front cloth member 14, 15 and a rear cloth
member 16, 17, in which the cloth members 14-17 are preferably made
of non-expandable woven or nonwoven cloth materials. The
above-described structure is typical and will not be described in
further details.
[0026] The pant 10 of the clothing 1 further comprises a flexible
or resilient or expandable or secondary strap or element 20
attached to each of the pant-legs 12, 13 with such as stitches 21,
such as attached to the inner portion of each of the pant-legs 12,
13 (FIGS. 1-3), and coupled or secured between the front cloth
members 14, 15 and the rear cloth member 16, 17 with the stitches
21 (FIG. 3) for allowing the pant-legs 12, 13 to be suitably
retracted or expanded to fit various users having different leg
sizes or dimensions. It is preferable, but not necessarily that the
pant 10 of the clothing 1 further includes a flexible or resilient
or expandable segment 22 extended from or coupled to the secondary
strap or elements 20 and extended or provided in the rear portion
of the pant body or upper portion 11 of the pant 10 (FIG. 2) for
allowing the pant body or upper portion 11 of the pant 10 also to
be suitably retracted or expanded to fit various users having
different buttock sizes or dimensions.
[0027] As shown in FIGS. 4-5, the pant 10 of the clothing 1 may
further comprise an additional flexible or resilient or expandable
or secondary strap or element 23 attached to each of the side
portions of the pant-legs 12, 13 and/or of the pant body or upper
portion 11 of the pant 10 with such as stitches 21, and also
coupled or secured between the front cloth members 14, 15 and the
rear cloth member 16, 17 with the stitches 21 for allowing the
pant-legs 12, 13 to be further suitably retracted or expanded to
fit various users having different leg sizes or dimensions. As
shown in FIG. 6, the short 40 of the clothing 1 may also include an
additional flexible or resilient or expandable or secondary strap
or element 41 attached to each of the side portions thereof, and
also coupled or secured between the front cloth members 42 and the
rear cloth member 43 with such as the stitches 44 for allowing the
short 40 to be suitably retracted or expanded to fit various users
having different leg sizes or dimensions.
[0028] As shown in FIGS. 7-8, the shirt 50 of the clothing 1 may
also include a shirt body 51 having a flexible or resilient or
expandable or secondary strap or element 52 attached to each of the
side portions of the shirt body 51 and also coupled or secured
between the front cloth members 53 and the rear cloth member 54
with such as the stitches 55 for allowing the shirt 50 to be
suitably retracted or expanded to fit various users having
different body sizes or dimensions, and may further include a
flexible or resilient or expandable segment 56 extended from or
coupled to the expandable strap or elements 52 and/or extended or
provided in the outer or inner portion of each of the sleeves 57
for allowing the sleeves 57 to be suitably retracted or expanded to
fit various users having different hand or arm sizes or
dimensions.
[0029] As shown in FIG. 9, the jacket or coat 60 may include a rear
portion 61 having a flexible or resilient or expandable or
secondary strap or element 62 attached to the middle portion of the
rear portion 61 of the jacket or coat 60 with such as the stitches
63 for allowing the jacket or coat 60 to be suitably retracted or
expanded to fit various users having different body sizes or
dimensions. It is preferable that the secondary straps or elements
20, 23, 41, 52, 62 are made of air permeable materials for air
permeating purposes, and include a resilience greater or better
than that of the primary cloth members 14-17, 42-43, 53-54 for
allowing the clothing 1 to be suitably retracted or expanded to fit
various users having different body sizes or dimensions.
[0030] Accordingly, the expandable clothing in accordance with the
present invention includes one or more expandable components or
portions or elements for allowing the clothing to be suitably
retracted or expanded to fit various users having different sizes
or dimensions.
[0031] Although this invention has been described with a certain
degree of particularity, it is to be understood that the present
disclosure has been made by way of example only and that numerous
changes in the detailed construction and the combination and
arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the
spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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