Female pants
The invention refers to a pair of female pants intended to be used preferably by sportsmen and by other active persons and comprising a waist portion ( 2 ) connected to back and front portions ( 3,4 ), which at the crotch ( 5 ) of the wearer are interconnected or merge into each other into a crotch portion ( 6 ), which comprises at its inside an air permeable and moisture transporting material layer ( 7 ), which attends to that the lower abdomen of the wearer is ventilated. The material layer ( 7 ), having a width mainly corresponding to the crotch width of the pants ( 1 ) and a length extending a predetermined distance forwards and backwards from the middle of the crotch portion ( 6 ), also in a compressed condition maintains an air slot, which makes it possible that air can be circulated over the crotch of a wearer and as well both in a deep direction and in a longitudinal direction through the material layer ( 7 ) at the same time as a tempered zone by both air exchanging and the structure of the material layer in an active way drains the crotch portion ( 6 ) by that said structure of the material layer ( 7 ) consists of a direct from the crotch portion ( 6 ) or indirect from a supporting layer ( 11, 12, 12′, 12′′ ) fixed to the crotch portion ( 6 ) protruding through the same extending air channels ( 14,21 ) with surrounding fiber material ( 7′, 7″ ) or a flexible thread- and/or strip-formed material ( 8 ).
1. A pair of female pants for use by an active person, comprising:
front and back portions;
a waist portion connected to the front and back portions;
a crotch portion connected to the front and back portions, wherein the crotch portion includes an air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer for providing ventilation, wherein the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer includes non-absorbent material, wherein the non-absorbent material has a width corresponding to a crotch width of the pair of pants and a length extending forward and backward from a middle portion of the crotch portion, wherein the non-absorbent material is compressible from a non-compressed condition to a compressed condition, wherein, in the compressed condition, the non-absorbent material has air channels that extend in a plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material and in a direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material, and wherein, in the compressed condition, the air channels provide air circulation through the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer and actively drain moisture from the crotch portion; and
a flexible supporting layer that covers and is fixed to the crotch portion; and
wherein the non-absorbent material includes a fiber material, and wherein the flexible supporting layer includes a cloth material, and wherein the air channels alternate in a direction toward and approximately up to a middle of the fiber material;
wherein the pair of female pants further comprises a cloth-like material covering, and wherein the non-absorbent material, including the fiber material and the air channels, is located between the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer and the cloth-like material covering;
wherein the non-absorbent material, in the non-compressed condition, has a thickness of about 2-10 mm in a depth direction, which is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material;
wherein the air channels include first and second air channels, wherein the first air channels have first and second ends, the second air channels have first and second ends, the first air channels extend in the depth direction from the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, approximately to the middle of the fiber material, but not to the cloth-like material cover, such that the fiber material is located between the second ends of the first air channels and the cloth-like material cover;
wherein the second air channels extend in the depth direction from the cloth-like material cover toward the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, approximately to the middle of the fiber material, but not to the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, such that the fiber material is located between the second ends of the second air channels and the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer; and
wherein the second air channels are alternatingly located between the first air channels, and wherein the fiber material is located between the first air channels and the second air channels.
2. A pair of female pants for use by an active person, comprising:
front and back portions;
a waist portion connected to the front and back portions;
a crotch portion connected to the front and back portions, wherein the crotch portion includes an air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer for providing ventilation, wherein the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer includes non-absorbent material, wherein the non-absorbent material has a width corresponding to a crotch width of the pair of pants and a length extending forward and backward from a middle portion of the crotch portion, wherein the non-absorbent material is compressible from a non-compressed condition to a compressed condition, wherein, in the compressed condition, the non-absorbent material has air channels that extend in a plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material and in a direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material, and wherein, in the compressed condition, the air channels provide air circulation through the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer and actively drain moisture from the crotch portion; and
a flexible supporting layer that covers and is fixed to the crotch portion; and
wherein the non-absorbent material includes a fiber material, and wherein the flexible supporting layer includes a cloth material, and wherein the fiber material includes fibers that are perforated with micro openings, and wherein the air channels which provide the air circulation through the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer, and which actively drain moisture from the crotch portion, are formed by the fibers that are provided with the micro openings.
3. A pair of female pants for use by an active person, comprising:
front and back portions;
a waist portion connected to the front and back portions;
a crotch portion connected to the front and back portions, wherein the crotch portion includes an air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer for providing ventilation, wherein the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer includes non-absorbent material, wherein the non-absorbent material has a width corresponding to a crotch width of the pair of pants and a length extending forward and backward from a middle portion of the crotch portion, wherein the non-absorbent material is compressible from a non-compressed condition to a compressed condition, wherein, in the compressed condition, the non-absorbent material has air channels that extend in a plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material and in a direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material, and wherein, in the compressed condition, the air channels provide air circulation through the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer and actively drain moisture from the crotch portion; and
a flexible supporting layer that covers the whole crotch portion and is fixed to the crotch portion; and
wherein the non-absorbent material, in the compressed condition, has a thickness of not less than about 1 mm in a depth direction, which is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material;
wherein the non-absorbent material includes elongated elastic material, and wherein the flexible supporting layer includes a cloth material, and wherein the elongated elastic material extends in the direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material;
wherein the non-absorbent material, in the non-compressed condition, has a thickness of about 2-10 mm in the depth direction; and
wherein the elongated elastic material includes elongated elements which protrude from the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer and are each elongated in the depth direction when the non-absorbent material is in the non-compressed condition, wherein the depth direction is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material.
4. A pair of female pants according to claim 3 , wherein the elongated elements are selected from the group consisting of fiber, plastic and synthetic material.
5. A pair of female pants according to claim 4 , wherein the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer is woven together to provide an elongated flexible layer which is fastened together in orthogonal directions by elongated seams.