Lingerie strap slide assembly
A lingerie strap and slide assembly has the central bar of the slide of set or recessed and formed with spikes to which the strap end is welded. The slide has its thickest portions at the centers of the transverse bars at which the central bar merges with the remainder of the slide. The strap passes around the central bar or directly through one of the slots to a ring and returns through that slot across the central bar and through the other slot in the slide to the shoulder of the wearer.
1. A lingerie strap and slide assembly comprising:
a one-piece generally rectangular slide with rounded corners and having
a pair of outer mutually parallel longitudinal bars,
a pair of mutually parallel transverse bars merging at the corners with the longitudinal bars and each tapering from a central region of greatest thickness toward the corners,
a central bar bridging the central regions of the transverse bars, extending parallel to the longitudinal outer bars and defining respective slots on opposite sides of the central bar, the longitudinal bars, the transverse bars and the central bar having rear flanks on a rear side lying in a common plane of the body, the central bar being between the central regions toward the plane and having a front flank on an opposite side of the central bar from the plane and provided with a row of formations tapered forward away from the plane to the central bar; and
a strap having an end welded to the flank and extending rearward therefrom over the central bar and then in the plane against the rear flank of the central bar to an attachment location on a piece of lingerie.
2. The lingerie strap slide defined in claim 1 wherein said formations are pointed.
3. The lingerie strap slide defined in claim 2 wherein said greatest thickness is about 1.8 mm and the thickness of said central bar is about 1.2 mm.
4. The lingerie strap slide defined in claim 3 wherein said body is composed of a weldable synthetic resin.
5. The lingerie strap and slide assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said strap is looped through a ring.
6. The lingerie strap and slide assembly defined in claim 5 wherein said ring is configured to be openable to receive said strap.
7. The lingerie strap and slide assembly defined in claim 6 wherein said ring is provided with a flange for sandwiching between fabric layers.
8. The lingerie strap and slide assembly defined in claim 6 wherein said ring has two ring parts, said strap being threaded through one of said ring parts, another strap being threaded through the other of said ring parts.
9. The lingerie strap and slide assembly defined in claim 6 wherein said ring has an arcuate arm provided with a pin laterally engageable in an eye.
10. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein the formations are rounded upon welding of the strap to the front flank provided with the formations.