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US5014364:
Garment crotch structure and method
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Orr, Donna R.; Austin, TX 78758-3757
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1991-05-14
/ 1989-12-22
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| Application Number: |
US1989000455306
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A41B 11/14;
IPC-7:
A41B 11/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A41B11/14;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
002/408;
002/409;
Original:
002/408;
002/409;
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| Field of Search: |
002/079,72,73,67,227,408,409
450/105
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| Priority Number: |
| 1989-12-22 |
US1989000455306 |
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| Abstract: |
A garment crotch structure is adapted to be incorporated into several types of women's garments for providing an opening which may be used to perform bodily functions without removing the garment. The garment crotch structure includes generally separate right and left garment pieces. Each garment piece includes a leg opening for that particular side of the garment, a garment crotch portion adjacent to the leg opening, and a connecting section extending upwardly both front and rear from the particular garment crotch portion to both sides of the garment at the garment waist area. The garment pieces are connected together only at the waist area of the garment generally with the two crotch portions overlapping and with each garment piece having a free edge extending from the particular crotch portion to the waist area at the opposite side of the garment. These free edges may be parted manually by the wearer preferably from the rear of the garment to form the desired crotch opening. However, the connection of the edges at opposite sides of the garment retain the crotch portions overlapped in normal use.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Shaffer, Jr., J. Nevin ;
Culbertson, Russell D. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Schroeder, Werner H.; Chapman, Jeanette E.
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A garment crotch structure comprising:
- A. a right garment piece having a right leg opening, a first crotch portion adjacent to the right leg opening, and a first connecting section extending upwardly front and rear from the first crotch portion to both sides of the garment in the garment waist area, the first connecting section having a left edge that extends from the first crotch portion upwardly both front and rear to the left side waist area of the garment;
- B. a left garment piece having a left leg opening, a second crotch portion adjacent to the left leg opening, and a second connecting section extending upwardly front and rear from the second crotch portion to both sides of the garment in the garment waist area, the second connecting section having a right edge that extends from the second crotch portion upwardly both front and rear to the right side waist area of the garment; and
- C. the right garment piece and the left garment piece being connected together only in the waist area of the garment with the first and second crotch portions being overlapped across substantially the entire [in the garment] crotch area of the garment, and with the left edge of the right garment piece and the right edge of the left garment piece both being free along substantially their entire length and being connected to the opposite garment piece only in the garment waist area at the left side and right side of the garment, respectively, so that the first and second crotch portions may be parted manually by the wearer to form a crotch opening.
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