IP Library Granted Patent US 11,659,872
Granted Patent B2
US 11,659,872 · App. 16/856,812 · Granted May 30, 2023

Undergarment receiving a thin intermediate bonding layer between two textiles prior to thermoforming

Inventor: Manon Turlan-Van Der Hoeven (Marmagne, FR)
Assignee: DBI OPERATIONS EUROPE SAS
A41C5/005A41C3/0007A41C3/0014A41C3/10B29C51/145B29C51/264B29C65/4805B29K2083/00B29K2105/0097B29K2105/0809B29K2995/0046B29L2009/00B29L2031/4885
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Patent No.
US 11,659,872
App. No.
16/856,812
Granted
May 30, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A process for manufacturing an undergarment having two superimposed textiles, comprising depositing on certain parts of reinforcements ( 8 ) comprising a thick layer of a shaped memory foam elastic material, the polymerization of this material and also the shaping of the textiles of the undergarment by thermoforming, characterized in that it comprises a step of depositing, on the entire surface of at least the textiles, a thin layer of an elastic adhesive-bonding material, and then a step of polymerizing this thin layer of adhesive bonding during the thermoforming for shaping, and in that it comprises a step of prior depositing, on the textile receiving the layer of reinforcement ( 8 ), of a barrier layer of an elastic material, which is polymerized before the depositing of this reinforcement.

Claims (14)

1. An undergarment, comprising:

two layered textiles comprising between them at least one reinforcement layer, the at least one reinforcement layer comprising a polymerized elastic shaped memory foam material,

a layer of a polymerized elastic bonding material over a full surface of at least one of the two layered textiles, and

a barrier layer of a polymerized elastic material deposited on a first layered textile of the two layered textiles between the at least one reinforcement layer and the first layered textile.

2. Undergarment according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic shaped memory foam material and the elastic bonding material comprise a silicone.

3. Undergarment according to claim 2 , wherein the silicone has a hardness of about 30 Shore.

4. Undergarment according to claim 1 , wherein the textiles have a stretching capacity of at least 125% in one direction.

5. The undergarment of claim 1 , wherein the undergarment is a brassiere, wherein the at least one reinforcement layer is positioned in a bottom part of cups of the brassiere, the cups of the brassiere configured to hold breasts of a wearer of the brassiere.

6. The undergarment according to claim 5 , wherein a cutout of an edge of the brassiere that is located on a top of the cups does not include the reinforcement layer.

7. The undergarment according to claim 2 , wherein the silicone forming the reinforcement layer is deposited according to a thickness between 0.1 mm and 3 mm, and the layer of elastic bonding material is deposited according to a thickness between 0.005 and 0.1 mm.

8. The undergarment according to claim 3 , wherein the textiles have a stretching capacity of at least 125% in one direction.

9. The undergarment according to claim 4 , wherein the textiles have a stretching capacity of more than 125% in both a lateral direction and a longitudinal direction.

10. The undergarment according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcement layer comprises a thickness between 0.1 mm and 3 mm.

11. The undergarment of claim 1 , wherein the layer of polymerized elastic bonding material comprises a thickness between 0.005 and 0.1 mm.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 19, 2023
From: HANES OPERATIONS EUROPE SAS
To: DBI OPERATIONS EUROPE SAS
Reel/Frame 063397/0150 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2020
From: HOEVEN, MANON TURLAN-VAN DER
To: HANES OPERATIONS EUROPE SAS,
Reel/Frame 052483/0632 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 1454298 · May 14, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 15310707
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