IP Library Granted Patent US 9,814,341
Granted Patent B2
US 9,814,341 · App. 15/003,855 · Granted Nov 14, 2017

Device and method of removing a sports bra

Inventor: Lori Ann Kobyluck (Waterford, CT)
A47G25/90A41C3/00A41C3/0057A41C3/005A41D2400/44A41D2400/70
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,814,341
App. No.
15/003,855
Granted
Nov 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of removing a sports bra comprising inserting a sports bra removal device between a band of the sports bra and a torso of a wearer. The sports bra removal device is looped around the band. The method includes cinching the sports bra removal device around the band. The method includes doffing the sports bra from the wearer and removing the device from the sports bra.

Claims (22)

1. A method of removing a sports bra comprising:

inserting a sports bra removal device between a band of said sports bra and a torso of a wearer;

looping the sports bra removal device around the band;

cinching the sports bra removal device around the band;

doffing the sports bra from the wearer; and

removing the device from the sports bra.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said sports bra removal device comprises a body having a first end and a second end opposite said first end;

a ring is coupled to said body adjacent said first end, a handle is formed at said second end, wherein said handle is insertable through said ring.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the step of looping the device further comprises inserting said handle of the device through said ring of the device.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inserting step further comprises inserting a first device at an end between a first side of the wearer and the band proximate a first arm hole of the sports bra.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:

inserting a second device at an end between a second side of the wearer and the band proximate a second arm hole of the sports bra;

looping the second sports bra removal device around the band; and

cinching the second sports bra removal device about the band.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the step of doffing the sports bra from the wearer further comprises:

grasping said first device with a first hand on an opposite side of the torso;

grasping said second device with a second hand on an opposite side of the torso;

raising and extending both arms overhead, wherein the sports bra is pulled off the torso and slides out over shoulders and elbows to wrists and said first and second hands of each said arm.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the removing step further comprises:

manipulating the first device and second device un-cinching the loop formation of each of the first and second device;

sliding the ring of each said device along each said body toward each said second end and past each said handle.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of cinching further comprises moving said ring along the body away from the handle, tightening a loop formation of the device about the band.

Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62106854 · Jan 23, 2015
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