EP1166657A2 - Körbchen und Büstenhalter und Büstenhalter mit einem solchen Körbchen - Google Patents

Körbchen und Büstenhalter und Büstenhalter mit einem solchen Körbchen Download PDF

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EP1166657A2
EP1166657A2 EP01115453A EP01115453A EP1166657A2 EP 1166657 A2 EP1166657 A2 EP 1166657A2 EP 01115453 A EP01115453 A EP 01115453A EP 01115453 A EP01115453 A EP 01115453A EP 1166657 A2 EP1166657 A2 EP 1166657A2
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Noriyuki Nakanishi
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Sakae Lace Co Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41C—CORSETS; BRASSIERES
    • A41C3/00—Brassieres
    • A41C3/12—Component parts
    • A41C3/14—Stiffening or bust-forming inserts
    • A41C3/142—Stiffening inserts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41C—CORSETS; BRASSIERES
    • A41C3/00—Brassieres
    • A41C3/12—Component parts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41C—CORSETS; BRASSIERES
    • A41C5/00—Machines, appliances, or methods for manufacturing corsets or brassieres
    • A41C5/005—Machines, appliances, or methods for manufacturing corsets or brassieres by moulding

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  • the present invention relates to a cup product for use in a brassier having a scallop portion provided at an edge of a cup for covering a breast and an ornamental lace portion provided on a surface of the cup.
  • the invention relates also to a brassier using such product.
  • a cup product C having a so-called scallop S at an upper edge thereof which comprises a continuous wave-like ornamental portion is preference among consumers for a cup product C having a so-called scallop S at an upper edge thereof which comprises a continuous wave-like ornamental portion.
  • the cup product includes a three-dimensionally formed urethane cup Ca, pre-determined cloths 62, 63 attached respectively to the front and back sides of the cup Ca, and a scallop lace cloth S attached to the upper edge of the cup product C as a continuous wave-like ornamental portion.
  • the three-dimensionally molded cup Ca is prepared and also a wide lace material prepared as a planar knitted fabric is three-dimensionally formed (specifically, molded) into a shape required by the end product. Thereafter, as illustrated in Fig. 9 (portions to be three-dimensionally formed are denoted by mark M and cutting lines are denoted by broken lines), the lace material is formed into the predetermined shape to obtain the cloth 62 as the front-side lace member. Similarly, the back-side cloth 63 is formed three-dimensionally.
  • the brassier includes a pair of cups for covering breasts, a central connecting portion for interconnecting the cups at the center therebetween and other members such as shoulder straps and a back strap. Accordingly, in order to obtain a brassier, it is necessary to prepare at least one pair of right and left cups.
  • a mold having a spherical end is employed to obtain a pair of semi-spherical molded members (the shape shown in Fig. 10 (b)) an then these members are sewn together with offsetting the maximum bulging portions of the members toward the center therebetween (represented by broken lines in Fig. 10(e)), thereby to obtain the major components of the brassier to be fitted over the pair of user's breasts.
  • Another conventional method involves appropriate three-dimensional cutting and three-dimensional sewing of the semi-spherical cup member to obtain a brassier cup having a desired shape.
  • the above-described conventional method for manufacturing the brassier using the semi-spherical molded cups with their maximum bulging portions (i.e. the apices of the semi-spheres) offset closer to each other (see Fig. 10(e)) requires high precision in the cutting and sewing steps. And, with this method, it is often difficult to obtain a desired uniform silhouette. Hence, in these respects, there exists room for improvement in this conventional method.
  • the primary object of the present invention is to provide a cup product for use in a brassier and a brassier using such cup product, which use a lace fabric having a scallop portion, yet can provide improved appearance and silhouette without inviting cost increase.
  • a cup product for use in a brassier having a cup for covering a breast, a scallop portion provided at a peripheral edge of the cup, and an ornamental lace portion provided over a surface of the cup; wherein the scallop portion and the ornamental lace portion comprise one continuous lace fabric, and this lace fabric is formed into a three-dimensional shape by means of molding with the scallop portion being placed at an end of the three-dimensional shape.
  • the ornamental lace portion provided on the surface of the cup and the scallop portion comprise one continuous or seamless knitted lace fabric. Therefore, there is no need to provide a seam, a tape, etc. between the ornamental lace portion and the scallop portion. As a result, it becomes possible to obtain a brassier with much improved appearance.
  • the method allows production at lower costs.
  • the continuous knitted lace fabric is formed by means of the molding over the peripheral edge of the cup around a maximum bulging center thereof.
  • the ornamental feature is most important at the peripheral edge of the cup bridging between the scallop portion and the ornamental lace portion.
  • the ornamental feature at the maximum bulging center of the cup and the periphery of this center is also important.
  • the ornamental lace portion is usually provided in the area above the maximum bulging center of the cup. And, at this area, it is desired that the ornamental pattern be formed continuous.
  • the knitted lace fabric is an elastic lace fabric having elasticity in either a weft direction or warp direction of the fabric or elasticity in both these directions.
  • the lace fabric to be used in a brassier cup product is a rigid or non-elastic knitted fabric.
  • the fabric is to be formed into a relatively complicated three-dimensional shape as is the case with the present invention, with use of such elastic fabric having elasticity in the weft and/or warp directions thereof, the three-dimensional forming step may be carried out smoothly without inviting breakage in the lace fabric.
  • the cup may be manufactured without such troubles as looseness or breakage.
  • a proximal portion of the cup close to the center of the brassier corresponding to the "valley" between the breasts has a greater bulging curvature than a distal portion of the cup distant from the center of the brassier.
  • the bulging curvature of the proximal cup portion is differentiated from that of the distal cup portion, with the former being greater than the latter. Accordingly, this cup has a greater bulging volume at the proximal portion adjacent the center of the brassier, so that the breasts supported in these cups will be drawn closer to each other toward the center therebetween.
  • the maximum bulging center of the cup is located at the proximal cup portion adjacent the center of the brassier corresponding to the valley between the breasts.
  • this cup allows the positions of nipples or the entire breasts to be drawn closer to each other, so as to provide the desired effect.
  • the cup is provided as a deformed cup having a proximal portion close to the center of the brassier corresponding to the "valley" between the breasts which portion has a greater bulging curvature than a distal portion of the cup distant from the center of the brassier, the deformed cup having a maximum bulging center at the proximal cup portion thereof close to the center of the brassier corresponding to the valley between the breasts.
  • the present invention relates to a cup product for use in a brassier and a brassier using the cup product.
  • the invention has some characterizing features also in the shape of a mold employed in the production of the cup product.
  • a planar lace fabric 1 for forming a three-dimensional lace material relating to the invention includes an ornamental lace portion 2, a scallop portion 3 continuously adjacent the ornamental lace portion (portion adjacent the lace portion 2 in the weft direction normal to the knitting direction W of the fabric) and a waste-fabric portion 4 on the opposite side to the ornamental lace portion 2 across the scallop portion 3.
  • the ground network of this planar lace fabric is not the more ordinary 4-course network, but a diamond-network which is well-balanced between the warp and course directions.
  • the ornamental lace portion 2 is a lace portion provided with a predetermined ornamental pattern.
  • a raschel lace for example, such lace portion may be produced by knitting onto the net, as its ground network, a number of pattern-forming yarns 2a according to a predetermined ornamental pattern.
  • the scallop portion is a portion formed continuous in the wave-like form along the knitting direction of the lace.
  • this scallop portion is formed by knitting, on the net, a plurality of scallop-forming yarns 3a, a kind of pattern-forming yarn, into predetermined loops R to form an ornamental pattern, so that the number of loops R form the continuous wave-form along the knitting direction of the lace. More particularly, a plurality of waves are formed one after another along the knitting direction W, as shown.
  • the waste-fabric portion 4 is basically a simple network without any pattern-forming yarns, and this portion of the fabric may be readily cut.
  • an end of the waste-fabric portion 4 (on the extreme opposite side to the scallop portion 3) is constructed as a fabric-fixing portion 40, and this portion 40 uses thicker yarns and has a more dense structure than the remaining portion 41 of the waste-fabric portion, the remaining portion 41 being adjacent the scallop portion 3.
  • a portion of the ornamental lace portion 2 in the immediate vicinity of the scallop portion 3 is constructed as a scallop-reinforcing portion 20.
  • This scallop-reinforcing portion 20 too employs thicker yarns than the remaining ornamental lace portion 20a. So that, this portion 20 is provided with additional stiffness to effectively maintain the shape stability in the scallop portion 3. Specifically, while the remaining ornamental lace portion 20a employs polyurethane yarns of about 210 denier, the scallop-reinforcing portion 20 employs yarns of 420 denier, twice thickness.
  • the planar lace fabric 1 obtained as above is formed (specifically, molded) into a predetermined three-dimensional shape.
  • This three-dimensional step is carried out by using a three-dimensional forming device 24 which includes a mold 23 for molding the fabric portion 22 and the fabric-fixing portion 21 to which the fabric portion 22 is to be fixed.
  • the three-dimensional forming step is carried out with placing the scallop portion 3 at an end of the three-dimensional shape to be formed (i. e. in the case of Fig. 3, in order to align the end of the three-dimensional shape with the end of the cup Ca, an end or edge of the cup Ca denoted with a solid line corresponds to the end of the three-dimensional shape).
  • the fabric-fixing portion 40 provided in the waste-fabric portion 4 is utilized. That is, as denoted with broken lines in Fig. 1, this fabric-fixing portion 40 is utilized for the purpose of this fixing and also the peripheral edge of the fabric across the scallop portion 3 is utilized for the fixing. And, the peripheral edge (the portion or area surrounded by the solid line and the broken line in Fig. 1) of the ornamental lace portion 4 on the opposite side to the scallop portion 3 is also utilized for the fixing.
  • a mold 23 of the three-dimensional forming device includes a proximal cup portion 23a close to the center of the brassier corresponding to the valley between the breasts and a distal cup portion 23b distant from the center of the brassier, the proximal cup portion 23a having a greater bulging curvature than the distal cup portion 23b and the proximal cup portion 23a having a maximum bulging center 23c so that the brassier cup molded by this mold may obtain a proximal cup portion 23a, close to the center of the brassier corresponding to the valley between the breasts, having a greater bulging curvature than the distal cup portion distant from the center of the brassier, the proximal cup portion having a maximum bulging center.
  • Fig. 10(d) which is a section taken along an arrow in Fig. 10(c) (the upper portion of the cup)
  • the bulging curvature is varied also in the vertical direction of the cup relative to the lateral direction of the cup extending to and away from the center of the brassier, in such a manner that an upper up portion 23e has a greater bulging curvature than a lower cup portion 23d.
  • the mold is capable of forming the planar lace fabric into a cup having a predetermined deformed three-dimensional shape.
  • the three-dimensional forming step of the fabric is effected by means of the mold 23 and the formed three-dimensional shape is stabilized thereafter.
  • nylon yarns 6-6 are employed as the yarns forming the fabric. Therefore, the shape stabilizing step is completed by heat-setting the yarns.
  • the three-dimensional lace material 5 obtained still is in a band-like shape having a plurality of partial projections M (projecting on the back side) as shown in Fig. 3. It is to be noted, however, this Fig. 3 shows a condition after the fabric has been joined with the urethane cup Ca.
  • This joining step is carried out generally by means of sewing. Instead, this step may be carried out by adhesive bonding, etc.
  • the scallop portion 3 of the lace material is placed at the edge of the cup product C.
  • a three-dimensional lace product including the lining member Ca and the three-dimensional lace material 5 joined together with the scallop portion 3 aligned with the end of the urethane cup Ca.
  • the band-like three-dimensional lace material obtained above is subjected to an eliminating step for eliminating the waste-fabric portion 4 along the scallop portion 3. Further, if each cup product is to be obtained independently, the peripheral edge of the cup is eliminated by cutting.
  • the cutting line for this cutting is denoted with a broken line in Fig. 3.
  • this cup product including the three-dimensional ornamental lace portion 2 and the scallop portion 3 at the end (in this case, it is noted that this cup product is a single cup comprising the three-dimensional lace material and the urethane cup Ca joined together).
  • Fig. 4 shows the appearance of the cup product C obtained by the method described above. Although this corresponds to the product shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the product of Fig. 4 presents a smarter appearance due to absence of tape at the upper end of the cup because the scallop portion S is provided integrally with the front-side cloth formed of the three-dimensional lace material.
  • the end product e.g. a brassier
  • the cup may be provided with different ornamental laces between the right and left sides thereof.
  • substantially same function/effect can be achieved with respect to the main body of the cup.

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