Abstract: A brassiere comprising a bra core which includes two breast cups of a cup shape to each support a breast of a person. Each breast cup is engaged to a chest band wherein the chest band is able to extend about the chest of a person and has distal end fastening clips. A layer of fabric is adhered to each side of the bra core, the layer being of a continuous sheet, formed to the contour the bra core.

Abstract: A breast pad has a wax-like medicament, such as lanolin, disposed on an exposed surface of an inner surface of the pad in only a limited region, leaving other regions of the inner surface has a permeable region free of the medicament.

Abstract: The Invention is a brassiere to be worn after breast surgery. The fabric of the brassiere includes antimicrobial fibers that control microbes on the skin of the woman's breast area both before and after surgical incisions are healed. The antimicrobial fiber is a synthetic fiber incorporating a silver sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate ion exchange resin. The antimicrobial fiber contains silver ions in antimicrobial amounts.

Abstract: An improved backless, strapless bra comprising a pair of bra cups having an interior surface facing towards a user's skin that comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed thereon for adjoining the bra cups to the user's skin. The bra cups are permanently or removably adjoined by a connector that is positioned between inner side portions of the bra cups. The connector can have a variety of configurations that enable the user to attach the bra cups. The connector allows the user to create a desired amount of breast cleavage and breast push-up enhancement. The bra can also be used with a pull-up device that attaches to the top portion of the bra cups and allows the user to lift the bra cups and the user's breasts to provide additional breast push-up enhancement.

Abstract: A soft fabric bra with a center breast support pad to be worn by a woman while sleeping that is structured to support an upper breast, with the woman sleeping on her side, to prevent the upper breast from sagging and thereby prevent the formation of wrinkles in the skin of the upper chest of the woman.

Abstract: An attachable breast form enhancement system comprising a pair of breast forms adjoined by a connector. The breast forms have an interior surface with a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that adjoins to the user's breasts. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer can be a permanently grown pressure sensitive adhesive that has an adhesion force to the breast forms that is greater than a cohesion force to the user's breasts. The connector adjoins the separated breast forms by attaching to the inner sides of the breast forms and pulling the user's breasts together. The connector can be either permanently or removably attached to the breast forms. Several different configurations of breast forms and connectors are available to achieve the benefits of the present breast form system. The improved breast form system allows a user to eliminate use of traditional bras by simply adhering the pair of breast forms to the user's breasts/skin, and then adjoining the breast forms with the connector.

Abstract: An activity bra comprising a shield that is inserted into a harness having pockets that receive the shield. The harness has an adjustment device that allows the shield to be pulled against the breasts to compress the breasts of the wearer. A process for producing a suitable shield is described.

Abstract: A device for compressing a breast. The device includes a harness able to be releasably secured to a body of a user and a compression member adjustably connected to the harness for receiving the breast of the user. A control module is releasably secured to the harness for providing a pressure to the compression member for applying an equal compression force to the breast. The compression member includes a first compressing element positioned on a first side of the breast; a second compression element positioned on a second side of the breast opposite the first compressing element; and a structural member extending between the first and second compressing elements for retaining the first and second compressing elements on respective sides of the breast whereby an aperture defined by the structural member and first and second compressing elements for receiving the breast therein.

Abstract: A malleable support insert that is useful in the construction of clothing garments, particularly brassieres. The malleable support insert is shapeable and responsive to an external force such that the insert is shaped by the external force into a first configuration and retains the first configuration after removal of the external force.

Abstract: A device for compressing a breast. The device includes a harness able to be releasably secured to a body of a user and a compression member adjustably connected to the harness for receiving the breast of the user. A control module is releasably secured to the harness for providing a pressure to the compression member for applying an equal compression force to the breast. The compression member includes a first compressing element positioned on a first side of the breast; a second compression element positioned on a second side of the breast opposite the first compressing element; and a structural member extending between the first and second compressing elements for retaining the first and second compressing elements on respective sides of the breast whereby an aperture defined by the structural member and first and second compressing elements for receiving the breast therein.

Abstract: A garment including a front portion and an opposing back portion that are coupled together with shoulder and side straps, and substantial cups carried by the front portion for breast enhancement, wherein each of the cups includes an insert having an upper extremity and a lower extremity and that enlarges gradiently from the upper extremity to the lower extremity.

Abstract: A lining pad for a brassiere provides an external layer and an internal layer, which are made of elastic foamed material and have a shape corresponding to a bra cup of the brassiere respectively. An intermediate layer is sandwiched between the external and the internal layers and not corresponding to a breast so as to constitute a support part with relatively less elasticity.

Abstract: The present invention, in the preferred embodiment, is a surgery recovery brassiere which resolves many of the problems faced by women who have undergone breast surgery and particularly, mastectomy. The present invention comprises front panels, prosthesis panels, rear panels, torso band, straps, drain tube apertures and fluid collection storage pouch. More specifically, two front panels each comprise a cup portion and a conforming portion. The prosthesis panels are attached to the rear facing of the cup portion of the front panel to form enclosed pockets to hold one or two prosthesis. Each of the two rear panels are joined at one end to the front panels and extend to meet the opposing rear panel at a back closure. The free end of each of the front panels meet to form a front closure. Straps extend from the top of the front panel to the top of the adjacent rear panel.

Abstract: A mastectomy garment for retaining a breast prosthesis in place on the anterior chest wall of a mastectomy patient. A combination bandeau/bra includes a normal bra cup for the natural breast (unless the patient has undergone a double mastectomy, in which case no normal bra cup is required), and a fold down cup for the prosthesis. Beneath the fold down cup a bandeau conforms to the anatomy of the patient's chest and presents a surface of hook and loop fastening material for the attachment of the breast prosthesis which carries mating hook and loop material on the posterior side. In one embodiment, the bandeau over the mastectomy site is provided with fenestration to improve the breathability of the site. The hook and loop fastening material on the bandeau covers substantially the entire portion of the bandeau over the mastectomy site allowing flexibility in the placement of the breast prosthesis on the bandeau.

Abstract: A brassiere pad is used in a cup of a brassiere, with the brassiere pad retaining a non-flammable liquid and positioned within the cup for enhancing the appearance of the breast. The non-flammable liquid includes a humectant and a glycerine-based fluid, and the brassiere pad may include a main chamber for retaining the non-flammable liquid, and a tapered chamber connected to the main chamber by a canal to allow the liquid to pass between the tapered chamber and the main chamber. The brassiere pad may be composed of polyurethane.

Abstract: A sports brassiere provides impact protection with rigid cups of polyethylene, lined inside (and preferably outside) with closed-cell foam, such as neoprene. The foam reduces injury by absorbing impact energy. The inner layer is compressed over a large area and, therefore, absorbs more energy. The neoprene layers extend beyond the periphery of the rigid cups and are glued to the respective surfaces of the cups within the periphery of the cups and are glued to one another outside the periphery of the cups, using waterproof glue. Two layers of thin nylon are bonded to the neoprene layers. Since the laminate absorbs no water, it is easily dried after washing.

Abstract: An undergarment includes a torso covering cincher having a pair of downwardly curved underwire portions together with a pair of removably attachable breast-supporting cups. The breast-supporting cups define attachment members which cooperate with attachment members formed on the underwires to removably secure the breast-supporting cups to the torso covering undergarment. Embodiments are shown utilizing a torso covering garment referred to as a cincher and various attachment mechanisms are utilized in securing the breast-supporting cups.

Abstract: A protective brassiere that protects the delicate breast tissue and the related glandular areas from harmful radiation.

Abstract: A breast protector and assembly are provided. The breast protector comprises a retention cup constructed of a semi-rigid material and formed into a demi-teardrop shape which approximates the natural shape of an unsupported female breast. The retention cup can have padding permanently or removably attached to an inner surface of the retention cup. A breast protector assembly comprises two retention cups fitted into a retention cup sleeve composed of a semi-elastic material in the shape of a tube. The retention cup assembly is sized so that the retention cups fit securely within the tube. The retention cup assembly can fit within the cups of an ordinary brassiere, being held thereby against the body of the wearer. Alternately, the retention cup assembly can be sewn into the brassiere.

Abstract: A surgical brassier is disclosed having a first pocket with an opening for receiving a front breast prosthesis and a second pocket with an opening for receiving a side prosthesis. The second pocket is disposed in overlapping relation to the first pocket such that any tab on the front prosthesis in the first pocket which extends out of the first pocket opening will be covered by the second pocket to prevent contact of the prosthesis tab with the skin of the wearer.

Abstract: An improved brassiere includes a pair of fabric breast cups and straps, interconnecting said breast cups and maintaining a spaced apart relationship therebetween, for enabling the breast cups to be worn by a user. Breast pillows are provided for augmenting and uplifting a user's breasts with the breast pillows being formed from a breast implant type gel for simulating breast tissue of the user. The gel is a washable fabric and has a crescent shape with a generally flat top portion sized for uplifting the user's breasts. A pocket in a lower half of each breast cup is provided for receiving the breast pillows. The pockets are sized and positioned, in the breast cups, in order to enable the flat top portions, of the breast pillows, to engage an underside of each of the user's breasts for uplifting thereof.

Abstract: A comfortable brassiere containing removable, vented, cups with bands of shock absorbing material removably attached around the outer perimeter of the cups, for the protection and support of the breast area from excessive movement and damaging impact during activities which have a high incidence of physical contact.

Abstract: An artificial breast consists of a soft-elastic dish-shaped plastic body (1) which is symmetrical with respect to a symmetry plane (SE) passing through its tip (3). It has a lateral extension (5) and also a pair of further extensions (6, 7) which lie opposite each other and are arranged on either side of the symmetry plane (SE). The distance (L.sub.2) of the ends (6a, 7a) of the further extensions (6, 7) from the symmetry plane (SE) is smaller than the distance (L.sub.1) of the end (5a) of the lateral extension (5) from the Z axis which lies in the symmetry plane (SE) and passes through the tip (3). When the artificial breast is worn in a brassiere the lower extension (7) is pushed upwardly by the supporting force of the brassiere and the softness of the prosthesis material while the upper extension (6) remains undeformed. The artificial breast can be worn optionally on the right or left body side.

Abstract: The combination of a camisole embodying brassiere cups joined with a separate stretchable strip laterally placed at the base of brassiere cups and body of camisole. In addition, the brassiere cups may contain reinforcement materials of either a flexibly stiff semi sphere and/or under wire joined to the interior lower portion of each cup.

Abstract: A protective hard cup brassiere having two hard plate cups which are not the same, which overlap in the area of the sternum and which are held outwardly from the thorax and breasts as shown and described.

Abstract: A soft, reusable, self-supporting bra is disclosed. The bra is comprised of two independent shaped forms having a plastic foam construction and are formed so as to have the desired shape. The forms may be worn underneath a conventional bra or bathing suit and are completely washable. Self-adhesive strips are included to hold the bra forms to the wearer. The strips are cut so as to overlay part of the bra, holding the bra forms in place without adhering to the wearer's breast skin.

Abstract: The invention comprises post-mastectomy garments having one or two pockets in the breast area of a facing that is attached to a bodice of the garment. In one or both of the pocket areas may be placed a breast prosthesis, preferably constructed of a light-weight, flexible material. The invention is especially useful in construction of garments for casual or house wear.

Abstract: A mastectomy garment includes an underbra, a prosthetic breast pad, and an outerbra. The underbra has a supporting cup for the normal breast and a substantially flat band portion to fit to the chest of the removed breast, enabling a firm, flat-fitting garment over the remaining chest surface of the removed breast. The prosthesis or false breast pad is removably adhered to the outer surface of the flat, binding portion. The outerbra, such as a conventional off-the-shelf brassiere, that overlies and is secured to the underbra forming a composite unitary prosthetic brassiere with the prosthetic breast pad positioned therebetween and means for adjustment of the brassiere to the wearer and individual adjustment of the prosthetic breast pad.