Studded leather garment easy to repair damaged studs

Abstract

A studded leather garment is provided. The studded leather garment according to current application comprises of; 1) leather garment, including but not limited to, coat, jacket, skirts, belts, and pants, etc., which has inner lining, 2) pluralities of studs made of, including but not limited to, stainless steel, aluminum, and plastic, etc., 3) and hidden zippers on the inner lining. The studded leather garment according to the current application enables easy repair of the damaged studs without removing thread of stitching on the inner lining and sewing again.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

Current application relates to a studded leather garment which has inner lining, especially to a leather garment easy to repair damaged studs due to hidden zipper installed on the inner lining.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Studded leather garment of jacket, skirt and pants are one of the “Punk” fashion, which started from 1970's in U.S and U.K. Spike bands and other studded or spiked jewelry; safety pins, and silver bracelets were worn by both men and women. Leather, rubber and vinyl clothing have been common. Even these days punk fashion were common on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and studded, customized leather jackets or denim vests became more popular. However, due to the complex stud's structure on garments most of the studded garments are made by hand of the owner using leather or denim garment of her/his own. Otherwise, production cost is very expensive because of the hand job. One of the method of studding a garment, in most cases leather, comprises three steps of 1) mark the place, with a marker pen, where the studs are located on the garment, 2) make holes penetrating the garment on the marked spot with a nail and hammering, and 3) assemble the male part, which usually locates inner hidden surface of the garment, and female part, which usually locates outer surface of the garment, of the stud. The other method is to use a diamond shape stud which has two sharp edged legs. The method of studding are similar to the previous method. Mark positions where the studs are to be located. Puncture the leather garment and push the sharp edged legs. The legs are folded on the opposite surface of the studs. In both cases the opposite surface of the studs, mostly metal parts and some of them are sharp edged, would touch and may hurt the skin of wearer or inner wears. So, most of studded garment attach inner linings to protect the wearer's skin and inner wear. However, this kind of inner lining makes it difficult when some studs on the garment is damaged or lost. Because all the threads of the inner lining should be removed and re-sewing the lining to repair the studs. It is purpose of the current application to provide a studded garment easy to repair the damaged/lost studs without removing thread of stitching on the linings and sewing again.

DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ARTS

U.S. D727, 885 to Requea discloses an attachable studded jacket for mobile phone.

U.S. D696, 513 to Louboutin discloses a studded card case.

YouTube at the internet address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWbMsqpeGk discloses a method of studding a leather jacket with studs. The studs used is comprised of female part and male part. Usually female part is conical shape metal piece having female screw inside developed from the bottom and male part is flat headed screw bolt. A groove for screw driver is developed on the head. The method of studding a leather jacket comprises three steps of 1) mark the position, with a marker pen, where the studs are located on the leather jacket, 2) make holes penetrating the leather jacket on the marked spot with a nail and hammering, and 3) assemble the male part, which usually locates inner hidden surface of the garment, and female part, which usually locates outer surface of the garment, of the stud and tighten the male part with screw driver.

YouTube at the internet addresses of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCUrmHt-kk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNbhwF31cMY illustrates a method of studding a leather jacket with diamond shape studs. The method of studding are similar to the previous method. Mark positions where the studs are to be located. Puncture the leather garment and push the sharp edged legs. The legs come out on the opposite side of the studs are folded.

In both cases the opposite surface of the studs, in case of metal parts, make the wearer feel cold when the parts touch the wearer's skin. And some of them are sharp edged, would hurt the skin of the wearer or inner wears. So, most of studded garment attach inner linings to protect the wearer's skin and inner wear. However, this kind of inner lining makes it difficult when some stud on the garment is damaged or lost. Because part of the threads of stitching on the inner lining should be removed and re-stitched to repair the studs.

It is purpose of the current application to provide a studded garment easy to repair the damaged/lost studs without removing thread of the linings and sewing again.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Studded leather garment of jacket, skirt and pants are one of the “Punk” fashion, which started from 1970's in U.S and U.K. Spike bands and other studded or spiked jewelry were worn by both men and women. Leather, rubber and vinyl clothing have been common. Even these days punk fashion were common on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and studded, customized leather jackets or denim vests became more popular. However, due to the complex stud's structure on garments most of the studded garments are made by hand of the owner using leather or denim garment of her/his own. Otherwise, production cost is very expensive because of the hand job. One of the method of studding a garment, in most cases leather, comprises three steps of 1) mark the place, with a marker pen, where the studs are located on the garment, 2) make holes penetrating the garment on the marked spot with a nail and hammering, and 3) assemble the male part, which usually locates inner hidden surface of the garment, and female part, which usually locates outer surface of the garment, of the stud. The other method is to use a diamond shape stud which has two sharp edged legs. The method of studding are similar to the previous method. Mark positions where the studs are to be located. Puncture the leather garment and push the sharp edged legs. The legs are folded on the opposite surface of the studs. In both cases the opposite surface of the studs, mostly metal parts and some of them are sharp edged, would touch and may hurt the skin of wearer or inner wears. So, most of studded garment attach inner linings to protect the wearer's skin and inner wear. However, this kind of inner lining makes it difficult when some studs on the garment is damaged or lost. Because all the threads of the inner lining should be removed and re-sewing the lining to repair the studs. It is purpose of the current application to provide a studded garment easy to repair the damaged/lost studs without removing thread of stitching on the linings and sewing again. A studded leather garment is provided. The studded leather garment according to current application comprises of; 1) leather garment, including but not limited to, coat, jacket, skirts, belts, and pants, etc., which has inner lining, 2) pluralities of studs made of, including but not limited to, stainless steel, aluminum, and plastic, etc., 3) and hidden zippers on the inner lining. The studded leather garment according to the current application enables easy repair of the damaged studs without removing thread of stitching on the inner lining and sewing again.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a typical studded ladies leather jacket available on the market.

FIG. 2 is a perspective drawing of conical shape stud.

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the conical shape stud studded on a leather jacket of prior art.

FIG. 4 is a perspective drawing of diamond shape stud with two sharp edged legs.

FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the diamond shape stud studded on a leather jacket of prior art.

FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the diamond shape stud studded on a leather jacket with inner lining of prior art.

FIG. 7 is a schematic drawing of a studded leather jacket with inner lining of prior art seen from inside of the jacket.

FIG. 8 is a schematic drawing of a studded leather jacket with inner lining according to current application seen from inside of the jacket.

FIG. 9 is a perspective drawing of the studded leather jacket according to current application reversed inside-out.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Following descriptions of a stud jacket explains the key features of the current invention. FIG. 1 is a typical studded ladies leather jacket (1) available on the market. Most popular studded jacket available on the market these days are decorated with conical shape stud (2) and diamond shape stud (3). FIG. 2 is a perspective drawing of conical shape stud (2). The conical shape stud (2) comprises of a male part (2-1) and a female part (2-2). Method of studding a leather jacket with the conical shape stud (2) comprises three steps of 1) marking the place, with a marker pen, where the studs are located on the garment, 2) making holes penetrating the garment on the marked spot with a nail and hammering, and 3) assemble the male part (2-1), which usually locates inner hidden surface of the garment, and female part (2-2), which usually locates outer surface of the garment, of the stud. Usually female part (2-2) is conical shape metal piece having female screw (2-3) inside developed from the bottom and male part (2-1) is flat headed male screw bolt (2-4). A groove (2-5) for screw driver is developed on the head.

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the conical shape stud (2) studded on a leather jacket (1) of prior art. The female part (2-2) of the conical shape stud (2) locates outer surface (4), usually decorating surface of the leather jacket (1). The male part (2-1) locates inner surface (5) of the leather jacket (1).

Since the male part (2-1) of the conical shape stud (2) locates inside (5) of the jacket (1), as shown in the FIG. 3, the male part (2-1) faces wearer's body. When the wearer wears inner wear, such as shirts, the male part (2-1) will touch the inner wear. If the groove (2-5) for screw driver of the male part (2-1) has some sharp cut edge, the groove (2-5) may damage the inner wear. And when the sharp cut edged groove (2-5) touches the wearer's skin, it hurts the wearer. To avoid this situation the conical shape studs (2) are fabricated with finish touching. So, the price of such finish touched conical shape studs (2) are expensive especially when they are made of stainless steel.

Such damages by studs may be more serious with diamond shape studs (3) with sharp edged legs (3-1). FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the diamond shape stud (3) with two sharp edged legs (3-1) studded on a leather jacket (1).

FIG. 4 is a perspective drawing of diamond shape stud (3). The diamond shape stud (3) has two sharp edged legs (3-1). Method of studding a jacket with the diamond shape stud (3) is similar to the previous method of studding with conical shape studs (2). Mark positions where the studs are to be located. Puncture the leather garment and push the sharp edged legs (3-1). The legs (3-1) come out on the opposite side of the diamond shape studs (3) are folded. FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the diamond shape stud (3) studded on a leather jacket (1) of prior art. The diamond shaped side (3-2) of the diamond shape stud (3) locates outer surface (4), usually decorating surface of the leather jacket (1). The sharp edged legs (3-1) locates inner surface (5) of the leather jacket (1).

Since the sharp edged legs (3-1) of the diamond shape stud (3) locates inside (5) of the jacket (1), as shown in the FIG. 5, the sharp edged legs (3-1) faces wearer's body. When the wearer wears inner wear, such as shirts, the sharp edged legs (3-1) will touch the inner wear. If the sharp edged legs (3-1) are stretched, the sharp edge (3-2) will damage the inner wear. And when the sharp edge (3-2) touches the wearer's skin, it hurts the wearer.

In any case of the prior art, when the fixing parts, male part (2-1) of the conical shape stud (2) and sharp edged leg (3-1) of the diamond shape stud (3), may touch the wearer's skin or damage the inner wear of the wearer. Then it makes the wearer uncomfortable. To avoid such an unpleasant situation, one layer of inner lining (6) is added on the inner surface of the studded leather jacket to cover the male part (2-1) of the conical shape stud (2) and sharp edged leg (3-1) of the diamond shape stud (3). FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing of cross sectional view of the diamond shape stud (3) studded on a leather jacket (1) and covered with an inner lining (6) of prior art. Like many others the inner lining (6) is stitched (7) to the leather jacket (1) from inside to cover the sharp edged legs (3-1) of the diamond shape stud (3). Similar drawings can be created for the conical shape stud (2) too.

Whenever a wearer wears a studded jacket (1) and moves; wearing the jacket (1), putting off the jacket (1), swing and folding arms while walking, bending the body, etc., the leather of the jacket (1) stretches and shrinks repeatedly. Then the screw (2-4) of the male part (2-1) of the conical shape stud (2) is loosen and fall out from the female screw (2-3) of the female part (2-3). In case of diamond shape stud (3), the sharp edged legs (3-1) fall out of the hole on the leather skin. But, the problem is repairing the damaged/lost studs. FIG. 7 is the schematic drawing of stitched (7) inner linings (6) of the prior arts seen from inside of a leather jacket (1). As shown the FIG. 7, the threads of the stitched (7) lines should be removed to repair damaged or lost studs (2), (3) wherever the studs located. After repair the inner ling (6) should be stitched again to recover the original ornamentality. Especially when the studs (2), (3) are decorated on the arms/sleeves, it is very tedious job to reverse the arms/sleeves, remove threads of stitches and stitching again.

To avoid such tedious and costing job, hidden zippers (8) are installed on the inner lining (6′). FIG. 8 is a schematic drawing of a studded leather jacket (1′) with inner lining (6′) according to current application seen from inside of the jacket (1′). Like most of the jacket, the inner lining (6′) for a studded leather jacket (1′) of the current application is stitched (7) to inner leather skin (9) around the brim of the jacket (1′) and arm portions (10) only. Therefore, the zippers (11) installed on left side (12) and right side (13) stitch lines of the

allow a repairer's hand (14) access to the damaged stud's point (15) easily. Likewise, another zippers (11′) are installed on the inner side of both arm's inner lining (6′). Third zipper (11″) is optionally installed on the folding portion of the collar (16) if the collar is also decorated with studs (2), (3). FIG. 9 is a schematic drawing of the studded leather jacket (1′) according to current application reversed inside-out.

The hidden zippers (11), (11′), (11″) installed on the inner lining (6), (6′) of the studded leather jacket according to current application, enables the owner of the jacket repair the damaged/lost stud without handing over his/her studded jacket of favorite to a professional alteration shop.

Application to other garments such as coat, pants, skirts, etc., is not limited by the above example.

Claims

1. A studded leather garment comprises of;

a leather garment, which has inner lining;

pluralities of studs on the outer surface of the garment; and

hidden zippers on the inner lining.

2. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the inner lining is arm portion inner lining.

3. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the inner lining is front panel inner lining.

4. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the garment is jacket.

5. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the garment is coat.

6. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the garment is skirt.

7. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the garment is pants.

8. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the garment is belt.

9. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the stud is made of stainless steel.

10. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the stud is made of aluminum.

11. A studded leather garment of the claim 1, wherein the stud is made of plastic.