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US20060010559A1
US20060010559A1 US11/154,758 US15475805A US2006010559A1 US 20060010559 A1 US20060010559 A1 US 20060010559A1 US 15475805 A US15475805 A US 15475805A US 2006010559 A1 US2006010559 A1 US 2006010559A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • This invention relates to improvements in clothes and more particularly to maintaining several items of clothing arranged properly with respect to each other during wearing of such items and more particularly still to maintaining shirts and blouses and the like “tucked in” or otherwise correctly or conventionally arranged with respect to trousers, slacks, skirts or the like.
  • Prior art solutions have ranged from placing weights in the lower hem of shirts to hold them down, attaching removable weights to shirts by fastenings of various types, using hold down straps and other arrangements between the wearers legs or attached to the wearer's body somewhat like garter holdups for socks and attaching the lower portion of a shirt to the inside of trousers by various conventional fasteners and hold fast means such as buttons and snaps and the like, the latest examples of which are the application of the more modern hook and loop fasteners commonly identified as to source by the trademark “Velcro” to attach any upper garment to a lower garment.
  • any sort of permanent attachment to a special harness or the like about the body is uncomfortable for the wearer, weighting the lower end of a garment is not only extra weight to carry, but may not be sufficient to hold down the shirt, particularly for a portly person, any sort of hooking together or attachment of upper and lower clothes items is inconvenient to effect and to uncouple in undressing, although frequently used in the case of young children, and the use of the modern hook and loop attachment means, although fairly easily detached, is usually difficult in this particular use environment to secure. All these means for holding shirt ends down except the use of extra and variable weight and consequently reliance thereby upon gravity, suffer from the disadvantage of not allowing for adjustment for differing conditions.
  • the present inventor has developed a completely new and improved method and means to maintain clothes items tucked together which method and means is dynamic in nature, completely effective in most instances as well as easy to implement and which effectively counteracts the dynamic forces engendered in clothes by constant movement of the body and resulting normally in shirttails gradually riding up and over the top of a pair of trousers.
  • the invention introduces a countervailing dynamic mechanism acting in the opposite direction to draw the two items of clothing into a continuously tucked condition.
  • the operating principle and mechanism of the invention counteracts the normal dynamics of a clothed human body tending to extract tucked in clothing and as a result of dependence upon the same dynamic movement of the wearer, which usually results in clothing becoming untucked, by the countervailing mechanism of the invention tends to pull the two garments more closely together.
  • Such countervailing mechanism moreover provides such a gentle but continuous operating mechanism that the wearer of the clothing is unaware of such countervailing force, feels nothing and will notice nothing except that his or her upper garments are not pulling out of lower garments into which they have been tucked, or, in the case of sudden movements in which such garments are pulled somewhat apart will gradually, with the usual movements which most persons are continuously making, be pulled gently together again into a neatly tucked condition.
  • the present inventor has discovered that the untucking of shirts, blouses, shirtwaists and the like can be dynamically counteracted by the use of a special nap or fibrous construction in which all or at least most of the fibers of the nap extend in the same direction at an angle with the base of the nap which base is positioned such that the fibers extend at an angle oblique to but generally toward the direction it is desired for the lower end of the shirt, blouse or the like to move if the nap base is connected to the lower garment, or, if such nap or fiber base is attached to or mounted upon the upper garment or shirt obliquely in the opposite direction to impinge upon the inside of the lower garment or pants.
  • the angled fibers of the nap are arranged so as to tend to move the shirt end downwardly counter to the movement which causes untucking of the bottom of such shirt. If the nap is attached to the lower portion of the shirt, the individual fibers will be angled from the base of the nap upwardly against the adjacent trousers. On the other hand, if the nap is attached to the inside of trousers the nap will be attached to the trousers with the free ends of the nap fibers angling down against the lower portion of the shirt.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,175,993 issued to A. S. Gilman et al. on Jan. 23, 2001, entitled “Shirt-Locking Device,” provides a pin type means for fastening a sliding weight upon the lower portions of a shirt or the side of an undergarment to retain the shirt from becoming un-tucked by a double or two part fastening means.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,276,923 issued to A. Cohen on Jan. 11, 1994, entitled “Shirt Hold-Down Device,” discloses a central elastomeric web or harness arrangement, having concave sides to accommodate an individual's groin area, with a plurality of tethers extending longitudinally and laterally upwardly from the central web, with each tether including a clip-type fastener for securing to a perimeter portion of an individual's shirt to prevent it from riding upwardly.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,313,669 issued to M. Rasdell et al. on May 24, 1994, entitled “Clothing Anchor Apparatus,” discloses a clothing anchor apparatus, especially useful for anchoring the front and back tails of shirts, in the form of a garter type apparatus for securing in the crotch area and attached to the lower edge of a shirt to retain the shirt in position.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,397,393 issued to F. Alger on Jun. 4, 2002, entitled “Clothing Combination Comprising A Self-Releasing Bonding Means,” discloses an arrangement for maintaining a shirts and pants or as shown a shorts and shirt combination together by means of hook and loop material which is said to provide a self releasing arrangement.
  • It is a still further object of the invention to provide a method of preventing shirts from becoming untucked comprising attaching between a fabric section that is desired to be maintained substantially in position with respect to another fabric section when the two are pressed together a collection of angled fibers between the two sections.
  • the present invention is directed to a system for keeping a shirt tucked-in.
  • the invention makes use of a nap composed of a plurality of angled fibers affixed to a base or backer and in turn affixed to a shirt or the inside of a pair of trousers below the belt and extending outward with the fibers angled for maintaining the position of the shirt relative to the pants and which, in interaction with the shirt or trousers opposite the fibers, initiate and drive a self-tucking action.
  • a method for keeping a shirt tucked-in comprising the steps of providing a plurality of fibers angled toward one side of a base, positioning the base with the fibers angled in the direction it is desired to urge the shirt to prevent untucking and affixing the base to one of the lower end of a shirt or the upper inside of pant.
  • a tuck maintenance facilitator comprising a base or back with a plurality of fibers angled to the side is provided for attachment between two garments is also provided.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of a shirt to the lower portion of which the nap of the present invention is attached.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic side or end view of a proper arrangement of a nap section with angled fiber in accordance with the invention between the cloth of a pair of trousers or other lower garment with a belt line and the cloth of a simultaneously worn shirt.
  • FIG. 3 is a side view of the present invention similar to FIG. 2 illustrating the dynamics of action of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a side view of the invention illustrating the dynamics of action when the nap section with angled fibers is connected to a pair of pants rather than a shirt.
  • FIG. 5 is a side view of a tuck maintenance facilitator in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a cross section of the tuck maintenance facilitator of FIG. 5 .
  • the gradual movement upward of ones shirt may be relatively slow and, as a result, relatively little retucking of one's upper garment into ones lower garment may be necessary.
  • the bodily shape of the wearer of the garments also has an effect in that more stout persons usually have more difficulty in maintaining a neat, tidy look without continuously tucking their shirts back into their lower belted or tighter lower body garments.
  • the problem of the slippage of one section of a fabric from confinement by a second section of fabric is alleviated in accordance with the present invention by providing between the two and attached to one of a collection of stiff fibers in the form essentially of a directional nap angled away from the direction it is not desired for the cloth to move.
  • the nap fibers will be angled against the direction in which a shirt will tend to pull out of a restricting pair of trousers or slacks as well as the direction it is wished the shirttail to move to rectify any untucking.
  • the fibers therefore, extend at an angle between these two opposite directions.
  • Such angle of fibers may be obtained in several manners, but is most practically attained by attaching thin flocked fibers to a base while orienting the fibers at a more or less uniform angle to one side. Such fibers may then be mounted upon a shirt or pair of trousers or the like with the angle correctly oriented. In the case of a shirt and a pair of trousers or slacks this direction will be downwardly at an angle of about 45 to 60 degrees.
  • the consistency or rigidity of the nap fibers upon its backing or attachment to the garment item must be such that it cannot easily be turned in the opposite direction.
  • each movement of the wearer of the clothing either tends to move the two superimposed sections of fabric in one direction or the other with the nap or inclined fibers of the invention facilitating movement in one direction, but resisting it in the other direction, with the end result that the cloth tends to move overall in the direction away from the major resistance to movement, i.e. away from the attachment downwardly into a tucked condition.
  • the fibers are compressed between the two sections of cloth when mounted in the tight section of the lower garment, or pants, at the beltline, the fibers in effect extend or “stroke” outwardly tending to press against the cloth at the free end and push the shirt toward its tucked position.
  • the movements of the body which normally lead to progressive slippage of a shirt from a tucked position in trousers, slacks or the like now on the whole or on the average tend progressively to bias the shirt into the trousers or slacks provided these are coupled reasonably securely, rather than out of the trousers or slacks.
  • the average movement is in the direction desired so that the wearers shirt remains neatly tucked into the wearers pants or slacks.
  • the present invention is directed to a system for keeping a shirt or upper garment or the like tucked into an outer lower garment.
  • an outer lower garment comprises one of a plurality of possible garments including slacks, skirts, kilts, shorts and trousers.
  • the upper garment may comprise a shirt such as shown in FIG. 1 or similar garment such as a blouse, shirtwaist or other like garment which is normally tucked into the top of lower garment.
  • the present invention is specifically directed to any garment which has a waist section or belt line and which may be worn with a shirt which needs to remain in a tucked-in condition with a neat appearance.
  • a shirt 11 provided with the self tucking system, or nap, of the invention is shown in FIG.
  • the system comprises as shown in FIG. 2 a base material 12 having attached to one side thereof a plurality of rigid fibers 14 extending outwardly from the base and angled in a uniform direction from the base 12 .
  • the fibers are preferably constructed from a stiff synthetic or natural material.
  • the combination of pressure between the shirt and lower garment maintains the relative position of the shirt and lower garment plus the holding action of the fibers in one direction combined with the thrusting motion of the fibers as compression is applied at right angles, creates the self-tucking or a “ratcheting” effect of the invention upon the lower portion of the shirt.
  • the fibers 14 lock the shirt against the inside of the garment. When the shirt is pulled upwardly, the fibers 14 tend to pull along the inside of the trousers maintaining a rigid relative position. It is to be appreciated that the present invention is equally applicable to situations where the facilitator of the invention is on the lower garment in which case the free end of the angled fibers will be directed downwardly against the lower end of the shirt.
  • the teaching of the present invention are applicable to any lower garment including a pair of trousers, skirts, shorts, coulots, or even a kilt.
  • the teachings of the invention are applicable to any wardrobe situation where it is necessary to keep a shirt neat and tucked-in.
  • FIG. 3 The combination of pressure between the shirt and trousers with the action of the fibers maintaining the relative position of the shirt and lower garment is diagrammatically illustrated in FIG. 3 .
  • the fibers 14 lock the shirt against the inside of the garment. When the shirt is pulled upwardly, the fibers 14 tend to pull along the inside of the trousers to oppose the direction of movement of the shirt. With a compressing action moreover the fibers are straightened out into an angle more nearly vertical tending to push the shirt downwardly the pants being held in position by their construction about the waist. It is to be appreciated that the present invention is equally applicable to situations where the base is on the lower garment rather than the shirt.
  • Another potential embodiment comprises the direct application of fiber to the shirt or trousers without the backing material.
  • the fibers may be woven or otherwise attached directly to the material of the shirt or trousers provided they are maintained sufficiently rigid and at the proper angle.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the dynamics of the action of the present invention to provide a dynamic self-tucking of a shirt into a pair of trousers, slacks, shorts or the like.
  • the lower pants or the like garment will be held in place or up primarily by being cinched more or less securely about the middle or waist of the human body and the lower portion of the upper body garment will be tucked under or into the top of the outer garment.
  • the force of a belt against the outside of the pants acting against the surface of the body of the individual will tend to partially lock in place a shirt extending between the two (usually over an undershirt between the body of the wearer and the shirt itself).
  • the maximum elongation in a vertical direction of the fibers from the least lateral force applied to vertical flattening out is referred to as the “stroke” and is the maximum that the shirt end can be pushed or impelled downwardly by a single application of compressive force as the body moves including, for example, simple breathing. It may take a series of strokes to make up for a single external tug upwardly upon the shirt, but there will be a consistent movement downwardly that provides over a period an automatic tucking or tightening action with respect to the shirt. Different strokes or maximum downward movements of the fibers may be desirable for different users. For example, a greater stroke or maximum lengthening of a fiber may be desirable for clothing worn during athletics than for clothing worn to the office.
  • FIG. 3 a diagrammatic representation of a shirt and pants combination is shown similar to that shown in FIG. 2 but including in addition arrows 20 and 22 showing or illustrating compressive action from the pants side 22 due mainly to the constriction of a waistband and/or belt and the body side 20 caused by continuous movement whether from gross movement or from fidgeting or mere breathing, all tending to force the fibers of the facilitator or nap into an orientation approaching more or less closely to vertical.
  • the result is that a vertical force 16 is applied to the shirt upon the lower portion of which the facilitator or nap is mounted.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic figure similar to FIG. 3 but in which the facilitator or nap is mounted on the inside of pants rather than on an upper garment or the shirt, in which case the stroke is made by the free ends of the fibers against the outside of the shirt rather than the trousers or pants, although the result is essentially the same, i.e. to push down the lower portion of the shirt by a series of “strokes” more or less straightening the fibers into a more vertical orientation.
  • FIG. 5 shows from the side a section of a typical facilitator or nap and FIG. 6 shows a cross section thereof.
  • this is formed of a base 12 from which there extend a series of preferably straight more or less rigid fibers at an angle which can vary along with the length of the fibers depending upon the use.
  • the base will usually be supplied on the side opposite the fibers with an adhesion strip of some sort to adhere to the base to a clothing item at a suitable location such as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the adhesion layer referred to as a backing can be of any sort that will provide a secure interengagement or adhesion or connection with the cloth of a garment.
  • the length of the fibers being used at the present time as a preferred arrangement for self-tucking shirts is 120 thousandths of an inch in length and the fibers are 18 denier in thickness, which is actually a designation of the amount of material in a fiber of a standard length, but serves conventionally to designate thickness or fineness. (A denier is a weight of 50 milligrams of yarn in 450 meters of length, a rather thin individual fiber.)
  • the length of the fibers affects the “self-tucking” and “holding” performance properties by extending or withdrawing the “reach” between the shirt and the trousers. A longer “reach” prevents the shirt from disengaging from the trousers, thus releasing the “hold.”
  • the length of the fibers also determines, as noted above the length of the “stroke” of the self-tucking action. As trousers are compressed against a shirt, the uniformly angled fibers that are positioned to direct the shirt downward, force the shirt further down and farther past the trouser belt line with each pressing action. The fibers hold the new position after being pushed. This action is similar to a “ratcheting” effect and is therefore sometimes referred to as “ratcheting.”
  • the “stroke” length is variable and will be determined by the application of the garment. Uniform, athletic and vigorous use apparel may require longer lengths of fibers whereas finer garment fabrics and less vigorous activity garments will require shorter length fibers.
  • the present preferred 120 thousandths length fibers provide a certain length “stroke” or distance of travel upon compression. Sixty-thousandths length fibers provide approximately half that length of “stroke.” Development of different length and thickness of fibers is contemplated. In general it is believed that good results will be obtained with fibers varying in the length and thickness given by 20% may be generally satisfactory and as much as 50% variation on either side may be satisfactory in certain instances.
  • the presently used fibers are made of Nylon or Polyester but other types of fibers may be utilized so long as they possess the necessary performance properties required.
  • a Nylon fiber has a softer feel and is more pliable, but has a lesser performance than the more rigid Polyester fibers, which feel more coarse.
  • a more pliable fiber is more suitable for normal activity garments whereas a more coarse fiber is more suitable for more vigorous activity garments.
  • the angle at which the fibers extend out from the base material presents a performance variable.
  • the uniform directional fibers engage the opposing garment material in a “pole vault” fashion. The more upright that the fibers stand up from the base material, the further the travel of the base material upon compression. The less upright the fibers the less travel of the base material and also the greater the holding performance.
  • a strip of facilitator material will extend completely around the garment to which it is attached as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • discontinuous strips or swatches may be used and the width of the facilitator strip may vary depending upon need. However, the width also will depend in many cases upon how wide the beltline of the lower garment or pants is.
  • the fabric is being manufactured through the process known as “flocking.” Because of the nature of this manufacturing process, there is the ability to control the variables of exact fiber length and angle of fiber directional set.
  • the flocking process begins by running a continuous woven or non-woven base material through machinery that applies adhesive to the surface of the base material. It then travels through a flocking stage that sprinkles the specified fibers known as “flock” into an airborne environment over the surface of the base material. This airborne environment is electro-statically charged so that the fibers become polarized and stand on end while attaching themselves to the adhesive-coated base material.
  • the exact angle of the fibers being set is adjusted and determined by several possible processes.
  • the exact angle of the fibers being set is adjusted and determined by a mechanical process. As the flocked material exits the flocking environment, the fibers are set in the upright position in the wet adhesive.
  • the fabric continues to run through a so-called “beater bar” process that vibrates the fibers down into the adhesive.
  • the fabric then passes under a roller that sweeps the top of the fibers, effectively “combing” them in a uniform direction at the exact height desired to achieve the optimum “lay” to accomplish the highest performance of the “holding” and “travel” properties of the fabric.
  • the facilitators or nap sections can be sold separately for placement in or on shirts or slacks or the like or can be provided in clothing on either a costume or a ready wear basis and as explained can be mounted upon either shirts or upper garment pieces or lower garment pieces as explained or on any items that may tend to separate in a similar manner.

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