Counterbalance system for women's bras

Abstract

Counterbalancing apparatus, systems and methods that balance breast weight load to a user's back. A body portion is supported along the user's back, and a plurality of pockets reside one the body portion. Elongated flexible connector straps extend up from the body portion, over the shoulders, and connect to a bra cup. One or more weights retained within the plurality of pockets pull the bra cup portion upward and lift up the breasts. The weight measure of these weights is substantially equivalent to a combined breast weight measure to equilibrate the breast weight to the combined weight measure across the user's body to correct for breast weight load imbalance at the user's front and improve posture.

Description

[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62 / 259,317 filed Nov. 24, 2015.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention is directed to a weighted counterbalancing system, and in particular, to systems and apparatus that counterbalance breast weight and correct posture.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]There are a variety of different types of bras currently available in the market. A conventional bra is designed to at least include a pair of cup portions each receiving and retaining a breast. A bra may also include a pair of straps each extending from one of the cup portions up and over the wearer's shoulders, as well as a back portion that extends laterally from the cup portions around the wearer's rib cage and back. While the majority of bras are designed to secure and lift breasts in the cup portion, none of them take into consideration breast weight or the balance load of breasts on a pers...

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Benefits of technology

[0017]Still further, the present invention directed to a method for counterbalancing breast weight load to a user's back, the user wearing a bra having a cup portion retaining the user's breasts. The method includes: providing a body portion adapted to be supported along the user's back, the body portion having a plurality of pockets residing thereon; providing a plurality of weights; determining a breast weight of the breasts and a number of the plurality of weights that will have a weight load substantially equivalent to the breast weight; inserting one or more of the plurality of weights based on the determined number thereof into one or more of the plurality of pockets residing on the body portion; extending a pair of elongated con

Problems solved by technology

While the majority of bras are designed to secure and lift breasts in the cup portion, none of them take into consideration breast weight or the balance load of breasts on a person's posture.

Women that wear these types of conventional bras, that either balance breast weight loads to the shoulders or compress breast weight to the chest, often experience considerable amounts of stress on the neck, shoulders, and/or back.

All of this stress is a result of the ineffective breast support and breast weight load imbalance between the front and back of the woman's body.

These stresses are undesirable as they may lead to bad posture, difficulty breathing, muscle and joint pain, neck pai

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