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Class Number: 450
Class Title: FOUNDATION GARMENTS
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 BREAST OR CHEST, E.G., BRASSIERES
2 .With shoulder or back brace
3 .With midriff covering extension terminating adjacent waistline,
e.g., "longline"
4 ..With additional means interiorly attached to extension to
support the diaphragm area
5 ..Midriff extension includes overlapping relatively movable
parts
6 ..With means to attach extension to subjacent body-supporter or
garment, e.g., hold-downs
7 .Combined with subjacent body supporters, e.g., foundation
garment
8 ..Including plural superimposed supporting panels or bands
9 ...With separable closure for each layer
10 ...Each layer separately encircles body
11 ..Including apparel-type garment
12 ..Vertically slidable overlapped portions between breast and
torso support
13 ...With elastically extensible connector
14 ..Detachably secured to subjacent supporter by separable
fastener
15 ..Subjacent supporter unattached at front
16 ..Subjacent supporter unattached at back
17 ..Front center separable closure for both breast and torso
support
18 ..With size adjustment for both, e.g., maternity type
19 ..Including plural elastic panels or inserts with diversely
oriented lines of elasticity
20 ..Including elastic portions with varying modulus of elasticity
21 ..Including elastic portion with stretch inhibitor of limit
22 ..Subjacent supporter includes crotch member
23 ..Wraparound overlapped type torso support
24 ..Including panels having pleats or folds to permit size
increase
25 ..Stepwise girth adjustment
26 ..With separable fastener or connector for apparel-type garment
27 ..Low out at back
28 .With separable fastener or connector for apparel-type garment
29 ..For hosiery
30 .Combined with apparel-type garment
31 ..Breast supporting member within other garment
32 ...Removable breast supporter
33 ..Subjacent garment attached at front only
34 ..With means providing girthwise elasticity for brassiere
35 ...Portion of garment covers elastic connector at back
36 .Closable aperture permits access to breast i.e., nursing type
37 .With lacteal fluid receptor or shield
38 .With inflatable or liquid-containing chambers
39 .Molded preshaped shell-like cup, e.g., plastic latex
40 ..Strand-type fabric with thermoplastic fibers or filaments
41 .With stiffening strips, strands, or stays, e.g., wired
42 ..Cup form includes spirally arranged stripp
43 ..Woven or braided strand-type fabric, e.g.,wire gauze
44 ..Cup form includes latticework of strips
45 ..Paired strips or stays for cup rims with connecting span
46 ...With separable joint between paired stays
47 ...Annular cup-rim-encircling stays
48 ...Stays with conneting span form U, V, H, or V shape between
the breasts
49 ...Cup fabric has tunnels separably retaining joined stays
50 ..Plural separate stays diagonally crossing between cups
51 ..Annular cup-rim encircling stay individual to one cup
52 ..Single stay individual to one cup with arcuate portion along
bottom rim of cup, e.g., U-shaped
53 .With stiffened supporting means contacting only lower half of
breast
54 .With means to separably retain breast-form-supplementing pads
55 .With cup-supplementing means to add volume to breast, e.g.,
pads
56 ..Applied to only lower half of breast
57 ..Pads, per se.
58 .Separable at front center
59 .With cup supplementing uplift straps or slings diagonally
crossing at front center
60 .With floatingly attached cup-supplementing breast supporting
strip or panel
61 ..Forming breast-receiving pouch with cup bottom
62 ..Supplementary means includes body-girdling straps
63 ..Attaching means includes adjustment feature
64 .Straps narrow bands only, i.e., skeletal type
65 .Elastically expansible cup or cup rim
66 ..All-elastic cup
67 ..Expansible cup rim, e.g., elastic shirring
68 ..With means to vary size of breast cups
69 ..By vertical gathering of material between the cups
70 .Cups joined to common subjacent elastic strip of panel
71 .With variable length connector between cups
72 ..Elastic connector
73 ...With additional nonelastic connector means
74 .Including plural elastic panels or inserts with diversely
oriented directions of elasticity
75 .Including elastic portions with variable modulus of elasticity
76 .Including elastic portion with stretch inhibitor or limiter
77 .With girthwise inelastic size adjustment additional to
separable closure
78 .With means to gather peripheral edge, e.g., drawstring
79 .Body band has overlapping separately secured ends
80 .Resilient body-clasping band
81 .With adhesive means or vacuum cup to secure to body
82 .Body-embracing band includes detachable connector unit
83 .Body-embracing band means includes vertically spaced portions
84 ..One portion is narrow waist-encircling band
85 .Extended length wraparound body bands
86 .Shoulder strap arrangements and connecting features
87 ..Connected by floating extension at or below horizontal mid-cup
region
88 ..Detachable, e.g., convertible to strapless
89 .With compartment for carrying articles, e.g., coin pocket
90 .With reinforcing stitching
91 .Reversiblee
92 .Methods of making or assembling
93 .Materials
94 FOR LOWER TORSO INCLUDING THIGHS, E.G., CORSET, GIRDLES
95 .Combined with apparel type garment
96 .With shoulder or upper back brace
97 .Comprising sheet rubber or deposited rubber or latex
98 .With means bridging or filling out hollows in the body
99 .With individual buttock-receiving concavities
100 .With crotch or leg straps or leg-encircling parts
101 ..Upper-leg-encircling compressor, e.g., thigh reducers
102 ..With detachably connected crotch piece
103 ...Completely removable
104 ..Including crotch piece, e.g., panty girdle
105 ...With opening therethrough, e.g., overlapped panel
106 ..Leg anchors
107 .Comprising latticework of narrow strips or bands, e.g.,
skeletal
108 .With apertured insert-type panel for ventilation
109 .With stiffener for upper margin, terminating substantially
above lower margin, e.g., waistline antiroll
110 .With means to supportingly engage apparel-type garment, e.g.,
skirt supporters
111 ..Hosiery supporter
112 .With means to resist vertical motion on body, e.g., friction
grips
113 ..Over-shoulder straps
114 .With stiff or nonflaccid body-supporting plate or panel
115 .With elastic portions having means to limit or control
stretching thereof
116 .Elastic in entirely (may include nonelastic closures or girth
adjusters)
117 ..Edge joined multipanel
118 ...With nonparallel lines of elasticity
119 .Belt-operated lacing for closures or adjusters
120 .Vertically slidable overlapped portions, e.g., "telescoping"
121 .One portion laced through aperture in another portion
122 .With superimposed supporting panels or bands
123 ..At least one layer includes elastic feature
124 ...Superimposed elastic layers having nonparallel lines of
elasticity
125 ..Layers are readily separable (detachable) one from another
126 ...With selectively different assembled positions
127 ..Each layer circumferentially separable, with closure
128 ..Each layer substantially separately encircles body
129 .Having pretensioning means bridging girthwise closure
130 .Elastic portions have nonparallel lines of elasticity
131 .Elastic bands or panels with varying modulus of elasticity or
with stretch limiter
132 .With elastic band, panel, or portion, e.g., gussets
133 ..Detachably secured to garment
134 .Girth adjustment by predetermined increments
135 ..With insertable or removable girth-changing units
136 .Having girth adjuster and separate nonadjustable separable
fastener for closure
137 .With plural separately acting girth dimension adjusters
138 ..Vertically spaced
139 .With stays at closure edges having nonflaccid interengaging
fastening meanss
140 .Plural disconnectable panels with selectively different
assembled positions
141 .Lacing-type closure with flaccid lace-receiving eyelet or loop
142 .Closures or girth adjusters with interiorly disposed chafing
shield
143 .With stiffening strips or stays
144 ..Including stay-reinforcers at waistline or broken stay
shields
145 ..Movably articulated directly one to another
146 ..Readily separable from supporter, e.g., from pockets
147 ..Having means to interengage with lacing cord
148 .With closure means for access opening at lower rear margin of
buttock girdling member
149 .With insertable or removble panel unit, e.g., "convertible"
150 .With article carrying pockets
151 .Panels reinforced by tapes or bands
152 .With loops for dooning
153 .Protective covers, liners, or shields
154 .Waistline type, i.e., limited vertical extent
155 .Abdominal uplifting sling type
156 .Materials and making, e.g., pattern layouts