Underwear Patents (Class 2/400)
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Patent number: 6901607Abstract: A support pocket with a conformable pouch having an elastic back is secured to the inside front of a man's brief. A pair of flaps extending upwardly from opposite sides of the pouch are movable between a fastened closed position overlapping one another and laying flat against the inside front of the brief, and an open position separated from one another to open the pouch from above.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Inventor: Jean D. Elwell
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Patent number: 6898805Abstract: An underwear construction including multiple fabric panels that are adjoined by trimless seams.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Sara Lee CorporationInventors: Tony N. Truong, Teresa Thompson
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Patent number: 6895603Abstract: A protective undergarment in the form of, for example, a short having a waistband together with extending portions of material shaped to conform to the buttock and leg region of a user, and an elongated sling of material having opposite ends connected to the waistband and frontal and rear parts of the short. Parts of the sling between its ends are folded longitudinally into complimentary S-shapes so as, at each fold, to provide three plies of the material establishing a pocket part for retaining an end of a fluid absorbent pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Tailored Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Fredrica V. Coates
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Patent number: 6848121Abstract: Protective pants having an outer part and an inner part each of which include two mutually opposite side parts engaged to a central part, wherein the central part is made with a first and a second elongated section, the first elongated section being longer than the second elongated section and joined to the second elongated section on the front side of the protective pants.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: I.M.E.C. medizinische Textilien GmbHInventor: Michael P. Halid
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Patent number: 6839913Abstract: A figure defining and contouring garment, which outlines and defines a wearer's body contours in a fashionable and comfortable manner, includes a waistband coupled to a body with a rear tunnel that extends along the inside rear of the garment from the lower rise or crotch area to the waistband and a waistband tunnel that extends through the waistband. A drawstring anchored in the lower rise area extends upwardly through the rear tunnel to the waistband where it transitions to the waistband tunnel through a diverter region in the waistband. The drawstring transition between the rear and waistband tunnels is advantageously hidden within the waistband. The drawstring is used to adjust the fit of the garment by pulling on the drawstring to tighten the drawstring.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Noble Ideas, Inc.Inventor: Ora Zoe Villalobos
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Patent number: 6837771Abstract: Feminine undergarments, particularly brassieres and other body shaping garments that are fabricated using a multi-layered fabric laminate that is formed by gluing multiple fabric layers together, preferably to permit body shaping garments to be substantially fabricated from a single main piece of material or blank cut from the multi-layered fabric laminate and which has finished edges which do not require separate binding or narrow edge finishing, together with a method of making such garments, both on an individual, batch basis, as well as an automated process for making the fabric laminate and multiple garments on a continuous basis, are disclosed. Multi-layer composite fabric laminate materials wherein different portions of at least one fabric layer thereof are made of different fabrics, and a method for making them, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Playtex Apparel, Inc.Inventor: Gloria Falla
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Publication number: 20040255367Abstract: Secret pockets are pockets put on the inside of all kind of underwear to conceal personal items of value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2003Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventor: Sherrian Denatta Harris
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Patent number: 6820284Abstract: A male supporter includes a lower piece which covers the scrotum from underneath, an upper piece which is formed by belt-like cloth along the penis and covers the penis from the front side, and a pair of suspending devices which are connected to both left and right edges of the upper piece or the lower piece. A back edge of the lower piece is connected to an inner crotch of the underpants via an elastic axis device. A top edge of the upper piece is connected to an upper central part of the underpants. The ends of the suspending devices are connected to the upper left and right of the inside of the underpants. Accordingly, the whole male organs are independently supported. This male supporter has excellent permeability and can retain the whole male organs independently with a sense of stability.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Takashi Yasukawa
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Patent number: 6807685Abstract: This invention relates to a garment with a crotch part used in contact with skin, including: a garment main body including a stretchable crotch cloth piece; and a second crotch cloth piece on which an absorbent article is to be applied and held, provided on the inner side of the crotch cloth piece of the garment main body, wherein the second crotch cloth piece is mounted to the garment main body at its front and rear edges and is mounted to the crotch cloth piece of the garment main body at least in one portion of its center line, and right and left edges of the second crotch cloth piece are not bonded to the garment main body and are in free state. An absorbent article can be held at a determined position on the crotch part of the garment with stability and security. The garment also is excellent in close contact to the pudendal cleft region, is difficult to be steamed in use, and has fine appearance and good wearing comfort after mounting an absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Walcoal Corp.Inventors: Mayumi Hasegawa, Naomi Shibata, Michiko Aoki, Namiko Tachiiri
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Patent number: 6804833Abstract: A disposable garment of the “single use” type, obtained by cutting and sewing a tubular woven fabric, consisting of at least two tubular woven fabrics for seamless stockings, cut and open along one side (20), superposed to one another and sewn along the edges of the open side (20).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Inventor: Anna Maria Bertola
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Publication number: 20040194193Abstract: A Buttocks Support Device is disclosed. Also disclosed is a support device that comprises an abdominal element and a pair of thigh support elements each of which can be but is not limited to be formed as a ring shaped element. Each thigh support element has a buttock section and a midriff or abdominal section, the buttock section being configured to lift and restrain the wearer's buttock. The preferred device includes a sleeve there over for permitting the “rings” to be tightened without pulling on the wearer's skin. It is a further aspect that the device anchor about the wearer's midriff from below the chest to the widest part of the hips or at either the waist or the hips, depending upon the wishes of the wearer. Still further, the thigh support element include adjustment means for adjusting the length of the thigh rings. Furthermore, the preferred abdominal element includes means for attaching and detaching the device from around the wearer's waist as well as adjustment means.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2002Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventor: Karin Hart
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Patent number: 6799334Abstract: Disclosed is a men's brief adapted to support wearer's scrota and a phallus separately from each other and to prevent the phallus from coming into contact with a skin on the scrota or a groin area. The men's brief comprises a shrunken section (3) for tightening a boundary between scrota (B) and a phallus (A), which is formed by folding strip shaped portions along a middle longitudinal line and the both side longitudinal lines of its front part surrounding the scrota (B) and the phallus (A) and sewing each of the strip shaped portions longitudinally, a first bulged section (3-1) disposed above the shrunken section (3) and adapted to surround and support the phallus (A), and a second bulged section (3-2) disposed under the shrunken section (3) and adapted to surround and support the scrota (B), wherein the first and the second bulged section (3-1, 3-2) are provided by formation of the shrunken section (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Shevan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jee-Woo Yu
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Patent number: 6782557Abstract: An undergarment that provides protection against mild to moderate incontinence by using a layer of hydrophilic fabric placed in an absorption region. The fabric most commonly used will be sheared terry cloth. The terry cloth is treated with a strongly hydrophobic polymer material to form a chemical barrier so that moisture will not readily pass through the cloth. This absorptive panel is then simply sewn into conventional undergarments.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Dribrief, Inc.Inventor: Robert L. Feder
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Publication number: 20040154078Abstract: male sports brief having special pocket for genitals and stitches arranged for increased comfort.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2002Publication date: August 12, 2004Inventor: Yvan Auger
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Patent number: 6772446Abstract: A women's undergarment includes a fabric body having a back, a front, side portions connecting the front and the back, a top, a bottom and a crotch. A waistband is secured to the top of the fabric body, and leg openings are provided at the bottom of the fabric body separated by the crotch. Pocket structure is connected to and coextensive with the side portions of the fabric body. The pocket structure has side edges attached to a bottom edge and a top edge. Either the top edge or the bottom edge is open. The pocket structure is sized and shaped to receive a women's sanitary pad through the open edge.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Inventor: Ronnell Black
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Publication number: 20040128742Abstract: A quick change undergarment includes a fabric having a pair of leg openings and a waistline opening that is worn on a person's midsection such a person's legs extend through each of the first and second leg openings respectively. The waistline opening extends around the person's waist. The undergarment includes a first fastener coupled to the fabric that extends between the first leg opening and the waistline opening, which is operable to create a separation of the fabric between the first leg opening and the waistline opening. The undergarment includes a second fastener coupled to the fabric that extends between the second leg opening and the waistline opening, which is operable to create a separation of the fabric between the second leg opening and the waistline opening. The first and second fasteners may be coupled to the fabric of the undergarment by a reinforcing material for added strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Inventor: Viola Jackson
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Publication number: 20040107481Abstract: A method of making a boxer-style pant having side seams, a contracted crotch region and hanging legs. A flat web is provided. Portions are removed from the flat web to define leg openings. The flat web is then contracted either elastically or inelastically in selected areas along the flat web between the leg openings. The flat web is cut into separate pieces, folded and side seams are formed. The pant may include an absorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2002Publication date: June 10, 2004Inventors: Heather Schenck Mortell, Joseph Daniel Coenen, Robert Lee Popp
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Publication number: 20040098791Abstract: A method of making a pant having side seams and side-to-side crotch seams from a flat web. The method can be carried out in either the cross-machine direction or in the machine direction. The method includes providing a z-slit in selected areas along the flat web and folding the resulting flaps back onto the flat web. In the cross-machine direction process, the flat web is folded, side seams and crotch seams are formed and individual pants are cut. In the machine direction process, the flat web is cut into individual garment shells, which are folded, and side seams and crotch seams are formed. In either the cross-machine process or the machine process, the method can also include attaching an absorbent structure to the flat web.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2002Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventor: Michael J. Faulks
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Patent number: 6738988Abstract: An open-sided thong-type brief garment having a resilient wire frame including an anterior frame portion and a posterior frame portion which curve inwardly towards one another in a spring-biased arrangement. The anterior frame portion configured in a symmetrical U-shape and is adapted to curve around the genital region of the wearer in tensioned engagement. The anterior frame portion has an arcuate base and two upwardly extending stems terminating in closed loops. The posterior frame portion is attached to the arcuate base and is configured to curve upwardly between the buttocks of the wearer. The posterior frame portion terminates in a closed loop adapted for tensioned engagement with the sacrum of the wearer. The garment includes a fabric covering on the frame which includes a substantially triangular-shaped front fabric panel which spans the anterior frame portion to conceal the groin area of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Inventors: Edward T. Ruiter, Jacqueline Dugas-Ruiter
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Publication number: 20040083538Abstract: An undergarment in the form of boxer shorts includes a concealed inside pocket on the front panel for holding valuables and other items such as, but not limited to, a credit card, a membership or I.D. card, paper and coin currency and keys. The pocket hangs freely on the inside of the boxer shorts and is secured to the front panel at a top open pocket mouth. A horizontal slit opening on the front panel, just below the waistband of the boxer shorts, communicates with the pocket mouth to permit placement and removal of the items carried in the pocket. A zipper or other closure mechanism is provided for securing the slit opening closed, thereby safely containing the items in the pocket. Opposing flaps along the horizontal slit opening on the outside of the front panel help to conceal the pocket mouth and closure mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2002Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventor: Gwen Vanessa Thomas
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Publication number: 20040083537Abstract: The present invention provides an adjustable undergarment comprised of a fabric portion defining waist opening and leg openings, wherein the leg openings are formed by a first portion of the fabric removably and adjustably attached to a second portion of the fabric by a securing means and wherein the leg openings are formed so as to form a thong or g-string shaped undergarment. Both the waist opening and the leg openings may be adjusted to provide a custom fitted underwear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2002Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Eliaichaloi Mosha, Samwiri T. Kashambuzi, Anne W. Kimotho, John M. Gachora
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Patent number: 6728973Abstract: An undergarment having a body portion and a pair of depending leg portions having a crotch region located therebetween with the body and leg portions being integrally formed from a single blank of warp knitted fabric. The opposed side edges of the blank being seamed together to define the body and leg portions. The blank is knitted to define compressive regions in the blank with different compressive strengths and being knitted to define stretch regions in the blank which have different stretch characteristics with the positional location, the size and shape of the regions being predetermined to provide desired shaping characteristics of the garment.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Sara Lee CorporationInventors: Rachel Webley, Valentina Collins
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Publication number: 20040064872Abstract: An open-sided thong-type brief garment having a resilient wire frame including an anterior frame portion and a posterior frame portion which curve inwardly towards one another in a spring-biased arrangement. The anterior frame portion configured in a symmetrical U-shape and is adapted to curve around the genital region of the wearer in tensioned engagement. The anterior frame portion has an arcuate base and two upwardly extending stems terminating in closed loops. The posterior frame portion is attached to the arcuate base and is configured to curve upwardly between the buttocks of the wearer. The posterior frame portion terminates in a closed loop adapted for tensioned engagement with the sacrum of the wearer. The garment includes a fabric covering on the frame which includes a substantially triangular-shaped front fabric panel which spans the anterior frame portion to conceal the groin area of the wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Edward T. Ruiter, Jacqueline Dugas-Ruiter
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Patent number: 6712841Abstract: Methods and apparatus for treating hemorrhoids and similar ailments are disclosed in which one or more piece of material are used to separate swollen, inflamed tissue from non-swollen tissue, material may be included within an undergarment that may be worn for the treatment of ailments such as hemorrhoids or an episiotomy. The material incorporated into the undergarment has elastic properties that, in the case of hemorrhoids, acts to separate the buttocks. The undergarment may also include one or more pocket enclosures to hold cold compresses, ice packs, pain ointment, etc. directly upon, or in close proximity to, the affected area. Alternately, the material may be one or more single-use strips that include adhesive such that the strips act to separate the affected area from the non-affected area.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Florez & Co.Inventor: Rebecca Gomez
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Publication number: 20040049835Abstract: A male supporter includes a lower piece which covers the scrotum from underneath, an upper piece which is formed by belt-like cloth along the penis and covers the penis from the front side, and a pair of suspending devices which are connected to both left and right edges of the upper piece or the lower piece. A back edge of the lower piece is connected to an inner crotch of the underpants via an elastic axis device. A top edge of the upper piece is connected to an upper central part of the underpants. The ends of the suspending devices are connected to the upper left and right of the inside of the underpants. Accordingly, the whole male organs are independently supported. This male supporter has excellent permeability and can retain the whole male organs independently with a sense of stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Takashi Yasukawa
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Publication number: 20040034902Abstract: The detachable panties are constructed so as to enable donning and removal of the panty with minimal effort and bodily movement. The panties comprise a front panel, applicable to the front of a wearer's torso, a rear panel, applicable to the back of the wearer's torso, a crotch portion extending adjacently below the torso between front and back panel, a waistband at the top of front and rear panels, and leg portions. Fastening means are distributed on selected areas of the panty to allow assembly and removal of the panty without the necessity of normal dressing movements. The detachable panties are ideal for general use, as they allow a playful and quick way of donning and removing the garment from the body. The detachable panties are also appropriate for use by elderly people or people suffering from a disability which impairs their movement, as it can be worn and removed without bending.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2002Publication date: February 26, 2004Inventor: Francisca A. Yturria
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Publication number: 20040016043Abstract: An underpant garment worn in a state of being substantially in close contact with a surface of a lower body of a wearer includes a main constituent portion made of stretchable materials that include a first-type material and a second-type material. The first-type material has a straining force greater than a straining force of the second-type material. In the underpant garment, the first-type material is arranged in regions such that in each region the first-type material covers at least a region including a part of musculus gluteus maximus, a part of musculus gluteus medius, a part of musculus tensor faciae latae, and a part of tractus iliotibialis, and the second-type material is arranged in regions other than the regions where the first-type material is arranged. This allows the wearer to smoothly shift from a static state to a dynamic state such as a running state, and helps prevent a displacement of the center of gravity when the wearer is in motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: MIZUNO CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Uno, Tatsuo Sakaguchi, Eiji Kaname, Shoji Osada
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Patent number: 6681407Abstract: A women's waistless and seamless clothing adherable underwear includes an oval pad made of a soft absorbent material, wherein the pad has double sided strips of adhesive tape with removable peel-off cover strips to attach to the inside crotch area of low slung clothing pants, such as tight pants, leotards or dungaree jeans facing upward to the skin and crotch of the wearer. The material is preferably a soft, non-woven, absorbent material. The underwear is particularly suited for women who wear tight pants, or low waist hip hugger pants, which widely reveal waist bands and seams of panty underwear, or expose underwear waist bands. The underwear is minimally intrusive and is attractive for women who like to wear jeans without underwear but who fear bacterial infection or exposure to clothing dyes or irritating stitching.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Inventor: Christine Martz
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Publication number: 20040010841Abstract: A protective garment for capture and filtration of flatus wherein the garment comprises a water vapor-permeable, air-impermeable membrane that provides a containment body. The containment body captures flatus but not moisture, and a chemically active filter disposed over a hole in the containment body remove odor from the flatus. In one embodiment, the membrane is impregnated with a chemically active substance that also acts as a filter. In another embodiment, the membrane is laminated to a stretchable fabric to increase mechanical efficiency as well as comfort.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventor: Stephen P. Gilmartin
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Patent number: 6676647Abstract: The disposable pull-on undergarment that has first and second waist regions and a crotch region extending between these two waist regions. The waist regions are connected with each other in bonding zones extending along transversely opposite side edge portions thereof so as to define a waist-opening and a pair of leg-openings. First elastic members are bonded under tension to peripheral edge of the waist-opening and second elastic members are bonded under tension to peripheral edges of the leg-openings so that respective opposite ends of the first elastic members are positioned and fixed at first zones defined immediately inside the bonding zones in a circumferential direction of the waist-opening and respective opposite ends of the second elastic members are positioned and fixed at second zones defined immediately inside the bonding zones in a circumferential direction Y of the leg-openings.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Takaaki Shimada, Seiji Suzuki, Nariaki Shimoe
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Patent number: 6665877Abstract: Undergarments that protect from the detrimental interaction of electrostatic fields with human tissue. Filaments woven or knitted into patterns or into an insert attached to the undergarments may comprise electrically nonconductive strands and electrically conductive strands. Electrostatic field-concentrators provided upon particular strands create ions from adjacent air molecules and cancel electrostatic charges in their vicinity. The geometry of the preferred filaments is such that the field-concentrators are salient from the central bulk of the filament by a distance at least as great as the axial radius of the field-concentrator terminal surface. As a result, potentially detrimental electrostatic fields are reduced, and concomitant health benefits to the wearer are realized.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Inventor: James R. Gray
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Patent number: 6666851Abstract: A disposable garment that includes a crotch region. The crotch region has a pair of folding guides that extend transversely across a zone defined between peripheral edge portions of respective leg-openings and intersect each other in a transversely middle zone of the crotch region. The crotch region is tucked about the folding guides inwardly of the garment so that the crotch region may be divided by the folding guides into substantially triangular first and second zones defined between the peripheral edge portions of the respective leg-openings and the folding guides, respectively, a third zone extending from the folding guides into a front region, and a fourth zone extending from the folding guides into a rear region with the first and second zones being disposed between the third and fourth zones.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Yoshinori Kumasaka, Hiroyuki Soga
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Patent number: 6662378Abstract: The invention relates to light industry and particularly to men's clothes. A combined waist-worn men's clothes article comprises an outside portion and an inside portion connected to each other, the inside portion being shaped as swimming trunks. The swimming trunks comprise a front panel and a back panel connected to each other by side seams and having an additional panel connected to the front panel by side seams and a middle seam. The additional panel forms a cavity with the front panel, the latter being provided with a slot for communication between the inside portion and the cavity. The back panel and the front panel are connected to each other by an additional seam aligned with the middle seam located at the level of the bottom edge of the scrotum.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Inventor: Philip A. Vartanyan
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Publication number: 20030222111Abstract: A combination diaper and holder secures a baby in a safe and comfortable position while unattended by an adult. The holder is formed of a sheet large enough to fit about a crib mattress or, at least one end of the mattress. The holder has elongated straps for placement about the mattress. A diaper having front and back waistband portions connected by a crotch section is attached to the middle portion of the holder by fastening through one of the waistband portions. The waistband portions each have cooperating fasteners on the ends. The crotch section and the other unattached waistband portion is folded through the baby's legs and the cooperating fasteners are secured to fix the baby within the diaper and on the sheet. A wedge shaped pillow may be provided for elevating the baby. The holder is attached to the wedge shaped pillow by the straps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventor: Lynn Trimble
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Publication number: 20030217407Abstract: This invention relates generally to disposable undergarments and methods of making, using and marketing same. Disposable garments of several embodiments of the current invention offer a uniquely attractive functional disposable undergarment that sacrifices nothing in its appearance, serviceability, and wearability from woven wear. The garments further provides versatility in fashion utility, time conservation and management, and novelty.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2003Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventor: Augua Andrews-Jones
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Publication number: 20030196252Abstract: A body-smoothing lower-body undergarment is constructed by circularly knitting a pair of seamless two-ply fabric tubes, longitudinally slitting an upper portion of each tube for a distance generally corresponding to a desired rise of the undergarment so as to form two fabric edges, and joining the two fabric edges of one of the fabric tubes to the two fabric edges of the other fabric tube so as to form a single larger fabric tube that serves as a panty portion of the undergarment, while lower portions of the fabric tubes serve as legs of the undergarment. The two-ply construction allows the bottoms of the legs to be formed without leg bands. The undergarment preferably has a 1×1 vertical rib knit construction, a turned welt waistband, and an abdominal control panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventor: Sara T. Blakely
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Patent number: 6635042Abstract: A disposable pants-type diaper is composed of a pair of sheets each having longitudinally opposite end portions extending in a transverse direction and transversely opposite side edge portions extending in a longitudinal direction. The pair of sheet are bonded together in desired zones including the transversely opposite side portions to form a disposable pants-type diaper. The pair of sheets are placed upon each other so that one of the transversely opposite side edge portions is destined to lie on a belly side of the diaper and the other thereof is destined to lie on the rear side of the diaper.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Yoshinori Kumasaka
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Patent number: 6616647Abstract: An undergarment is conveniently made with two elasticized top panels bonded and cut at a 45 degree angle on a bottom panel. The top panels have curved leg cutouts matched to the curved leg cutouts of the bottom panel. The curved leg cutouts are preferentially cut for the front and back sections of the garment to produce a comfortable fit.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2000Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Gary A. Krueger
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Patent number: 6613032Abstract: A product includes front fastening members, which have first regions connected to them, and back fastening members, which have second regions connected to them, with the front or back fastening members being able to receive and co-operate with the other of the front or back fastening members, respectively, and a first fastening ability being exhibited between the front and back fastening members, and the front fastening members or the back fastening members have a first extent in the longitudinal direction of the product, and the other of the front fastening members or the back fastening members, respectively, have a second extent in the longitudinal direction of the product, and exhibiting an extent ratio there between, the first regions can receive and co-operate with the back fastening members, exhibiting a second fastening ability, and/or the second regions can receive and co-operate with the front fastening members, exhibiting a third fastening ability.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Peter Ronnberg, Cecile Sandin, Ingemar Fernfors
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Publication number: 20030115660Abstract: A method of making a disposable pant having an inward fin crotch seam includes providing first and second panels, each panel having an inner surface, an outer surface, a panel waist edge, a panel leg edge, and two side regions. The panels are positioned such that their respective outer surfaces are in a facing relationship. The panels are bonded together to form a crotch seam. The panels are repositioning such that the inner surfaces are in a facing relationship. The side regions of the first panel are bonded to the side regions of the second panel to create two side seams to define a waist opening and two leg openings. The crotch seam may be inset toward the panel waist edges, and may include one or more slits. The disposable pant may include an absorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Heidi Bauerlein Hopkins
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Patent number: 6572575Abstract: There is disclosed a disposable diaper including: an outer sheet facing outward; a liquid-permeable inner sheet facing a liquid receiving side; and an absorbent layer interposed between the outer sheet and the inner sheet, to form a front face portion to be applied to the abdomen of a wearer, an intermediate portion to be applied to the crotch, and a back face portion to be applied to the back side. A pattern sheet having a pattern and an area smaller than an area of the diaper, as viewed from the back face or the front face of the diaper, is adhered to the inner side of the outer sheet. The outer sheet allows the pattern to be observed therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2000Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Takaaki Shimada, Toru Sasaki, Hiroki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6560786Abstract: An undergarment with a front and rear panel and a crotch panel joining them, wherein the panels are so shaped that at the waistband, at the side of the wearer's body, the front and rear panels are spaced apart. A flexible strap attached to the top edge of each side of the rear panel extends to the front panel. Respective fastening devices on the end of the strap and on the front panel at the waistband enable separable attachment to complete the undergarment. The fastening devices are selected from a group consisting of hook and loop fasteners, snap fasteners, belt and buckle fasteners, hook and eye fasteners, clasp fasteners, bow and tie fasteners and slide fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Inventor: Jody C. Lipton
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Patent number: 6557182Abstract: The invention is an Exercise Device that facilitates and enhances an exercise that improves male penile muscle condition causing firmer longer lasting erections with increased sensation and more powerful ejaculations. The device uses exercise rather than drugs or herbs to improve sexual pleasure for the male and female.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Inventor: Charles Taylor
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Patent number: 6539555Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty including a panty body formed with a front part, a back part and a crotch part located between the front part and the back part; and a support member. The panty body has a waist portion formed with an upper edge portion of the front part and an upper edge portion of the back part, and a pair of leg openings. The support member is provided inside of the panty body and has elastic stretchability in a longitudinal direction extending from the front part to the back part. The support member is fitted at both ends only with the front and back parts of the panty body. The support member has a narrower width portion of which the width is in a range of 20 to 40 mm and extending from the crotch part to the back part. The width of the support member gradually increases from a terminal end of the narrower width portion in the back part to the waist portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Ayami Suga, Mitsuhiro Wada
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Patent number: 6539554Abstract: A pair of disposable boxer shorts is comprised of a back panel, a right front panel, and a left front panel made of a strong tissue paper. The back panel has a crotch between leg portions. Each front panel has a leg portion with a half crotch along an inside edge. The shorts are made by folding down and securing the top edges of all the panels, folding and pressing the inside edge of the left front panel, joining the lower portions of the inner edges of the left and right panels with a seam to form a fly above the seam, securing the edges of the half crotches on the front panels to the corresponding edges of the crotch on the back panel, attaching the front panels to the back panel at the sides, and attaching adhesive strips to the front panels at the waist.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Inventor: Maria T. Portela
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Publication number: 20030028952Abstract: A garment 10e comprising a stretch fabric wherein the garment covers at least a part of the lower body of a wearer, has a crotch part, and is worn by being fitted to the wearer's body, wherein the garment 10e in part has a portion 1 with a strong straining force; the portion 1 with a strong straining force is a strong straining portion (A); right and left parts of the portion (A) are connected at a position 2 on the back side of the garment corresponding to any region from os sacrum to vertebrae lumbalis of the wearer's body; and the portion (A) covers a region extending from the position 2 through tops of bulges of the buttocks or vicinities thereof approximately in the direction of muscle fibers of musculus gluteus maximus at right and left to at least the vicinity of trochanter major.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Takako Fujii, Risa Saka, Toshiko Murakami
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Patent number: 6516473Abstract: Disposable trunks-type pants that include a pair of inner sheets each having a cutout lying between their front and rear side portions and a pair of outer sheets. The inner sheets having respective sheet surfaces bonded together along zones of the front and rear side portions extending in vicinity of upper ends of these sheets as well as along the respective cutouts. The respective sheet surfaces of the inner sheets and respective sheet surfaces of the outer sheets are bonded together along the front and rear side portions of these sheets. Elastic members are attached to the outer sheets along the upper ends thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Akiko Saito
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Patent number: 6503235Abstract: A disposable pull-on undergarment having front and rear waist regions bonded together along longitudinally extending bonding zones to define a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes. The respective bonding zones have an upper end lying most adjacent the waist-hole and a lower end lying most adjacent the leg-holes and extend from the upper ends toward the lower ends so that these bonding zones approach a longitudinal center line X of the undergarment.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Seiji Suzuki, Takaaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20020184698Abstract: Throw-Away underwear is designed to be a one-piece undergarment designed of a breathable, biodegradable material used in a manner similar to regular underwear. It is to be worn and then disposed of and is available for everyone regardless of age or gender.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventor: Anna Harris
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Patent number: D505767Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Inventor: Elsa Cabrera