Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
  • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
  • A44B13/00—Hook or eye fasteners
  • A44B13/0005—Hook or eye fasteners characterised by their material
  • A44B13/0017—Hook or eye fasteners characterised by their material made of metal plate
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41F—GARMENT FASTENINGS; SUSPENDERS
  • A41F1/00—Fastening devices specially adapted for garments
  • A41F1/006—Brassiére fasteners
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
  • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
  • A44B13/00—Hook or eye fasteners
  • A44B13/0052—Strips of hook or eye fasteners

Definitions

• the frame and the rungs, together, may be called the female half of the fastener, the hook or hooks being the male half.
• each piece of plastic is formed with two posts protruding from the first side, a rung extending between said two posts, and a positioning member adjoining each of said posts, the bottom of said rung being spaced from the bottom edge of said posts by a sufficient distance for facilitating the engagement of the hook.
• the present invention is a novel fastener, particular for brassieres, comprising a strap having first and second separate sections (hereinafter "sides"), wherein a plurality of transverse rungs are stably attached to the first side and a hook is attached to the second side.
• sides first and second separate sections
• prior art bra fasteners are inconvenient to manipulate in terms of the difficulty in targeting the hook into the eye blindly behind the back since each hook needs to be inserted into a corresponding eye of a corresponding column of eyes
• the fastener of the present invention is advantageously configured without hooks and eyes.
• the fastener of the present invention is provided with a plurality of elongated transverse rungs in a spaced relation with an adjacent rung and with the underlying fabric of the first side.
• Fig. IB The embodiment of Fig. IB is similar to that of Fig. 1A, but the frame 15 is connected by stitching 17 to the strap 16 and has the same cross-section at all points.
• the female part of the fastener is connected to the strap 10 by any convenient means, e.g., by sewing it at the appropriate places as shown at 55 or by plastic injection.
• said ladder is preferably further secured to said strap 10 at other points intermediate between the rungs, as indicated at 56, by any suitable means, e.g. by stitching or injection of plastic.
• Figs. 6-10 illustrate another preferred embodiment of the invention wherein each rung is attached to the frame by means of a pair of support elements.
• Rungs 62 are then inserted into corresponding support elements 62, whereupon the exposed flattened end portion 71 (Fig. 8) of each rung is passed through the corresponding hole punched in side 82 of folded portion 8 IB and then through the corresponding hole punched in side 84 of folded portion 81 A, so that it may be received in the previously positioned support element.
• the two complementary support elements 68 of a pair are then pushed transversely towards each other until the rung 62 interposed therebetween is frictionally engaged to the two support elements.
• Plastic piece 105 shown in Fig. 13 may be provided with a base 107 which is considerably wider than rung 103 or positioning members 109, so as to improve the adhesion of the plastic piece to first piece 10.
• the bottom of each rung 103 is spaced from base 107 by a sufficient distance for facilitating the engagement of the hook.
• the hook slides over the selected rung 103 towards the corresponding base 107 and is then released, whereby to engage the selected rung by a backward motion.
• the first side may be folded as shown, producing upper and lower pieces of fabric 118A and 118B, respectively, which are subsequently stitched together, as well known to those skilled in the art. If so desired, the first side may be punched with a plurality of holes 101, as shown in Fig. 15, to increase the fusibility of a plastic portion 101 positioned on the bottom face of first side 10 and the corresponding positioning member 116 positioned on the opposite thereof.

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• Corsets Or Brassieres (AREA)

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